[VHFcontesting] [222Activity] UPDATE --- 222 MHz Activity Night

[k3sk at buckwalter.co]

Just added my 4th new 222MHz state in the last 4 days!    Thanks to John, K1OR, I completed a 90 minute Q65  >>> MSK contact adding in New Hampshire to my list.    We started using Q65, where I again had multiple decodes of John's signal, but he was not getting anything from me, so we switched to MSK.  After 20 minutes of getting nothing, I was about to call it quits when I got the first MSK decode of John's signal.  With several periods of several minutes of nothingness, the exchange finally came together.  

FM07th  --  FN42ir  =  851.8km (529.2mi)    

de K3SK

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From: 222Activity at groups.io <222Activity at groups.io> On Behalf Of Dave Buckwalter - K3SK
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2023 7:24 AM
To: 'David Olean' <k1whs at metrocast.net>; 222Activity at groups.io; NEWSVHF at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [222Activity] 222 MHz Activity Night




I started 222 evening around 2130 UTC while calling CQ using Q65 off the moon, I got a chat message on HB9Q from John, K1OR.    He said he would listen for me.  After a few minutes of no copy, John realized I was on EME and he wasn't.   I still need NH on 222 and was excited about the chance to make the connection, so I dropped the elevation and rotated the array around toward FN42.   I copied John on quite a few sequences over the next 30 minutes.  His signals were between -16 and -23 indicating a lot of QSB.  Unfortunately, John reported he had a very high noise level, and never copied my transmissions.    

QSB was prevalent the remainder of the evening, and signals were down quite a bit, with me only working 4 stations.  

WA4NUF 	   SSB
WZ1V        FT8
K9MRI      FT8
KO4YC     SSB    ( I also heard WZ1V SSB work KO4YC before QSB took him out.   There was also another SSB station not copied, right at the noise level).

As a full disclosure, I also was multi-tasking and not paying a lot of attention to operating.   I had the air fryer on my work bench and was performing surgery to repair a self-inflicted casualty.    The mounting screws for the air fryer fan had come loose and the fan rattled and while attempting to tighten it, I broke a wire from the motor winding.   To make the repair, I had to completely remove the motor and unwind one turn from the motor coil so it would reach back to the connection point I had broken it from.   

FYI --  I have been and will be for the remainder of this week listening on 222 EME around moon rise here on the east coast.   I will be logged in on the HB9Q 222 page. 

Dave
K3SK - FM07

 


 



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