The following are the links to the Kure Island K7C operation's very cool
web page.

The K7C Web site: http://www.cordell.org/htdocs/KURE/
The DXA Web site: http://www.cordell.org/DXA

While the DXA is cool, it is a little confusing. I had a solid RTTY QSO
with K7C on 27-Sep and it still does not show up in the log and neither
does others that worked K7C about the same time. Having to work them
again just creates QRM and is not good. I uploaded my Q to LoTW and will
see what happens later. Hopefully, i am in the real log.

The enemy of good is better and the older style online logging reports
were good. The new 'better' DXA has some room for improvement.

Dick, AA5VU

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:53:39 GMT, "Dick, AA5VU"
wrote:

The following are the links to the Kure Island K7C operation's very cool
web page.

The K7C Web site: http://www.cordell.org/htdocs/KURE/
The DXA Web site: http://www.cordell.org/DXA

While the DXA is cool, it is a little confusing. I had a solid RTTY QSO
with K7C on 27-Sep and it still does not show up in the log and neither
does others that worked K7C about the same time. Having to work them
again just creates QRM and is not good. I uploaded my Q to LoTW and will
see what happens later. Hopefully, i am in the real log.

The enemy of good is better and the older style online logging reports
were good. The new 'better' DXA has some room for improvement.

I worked them twice (20 phone and CW) when according to the web site
they weren't on the air. I'm not in the log either. But I don't need
them on 20 anyway; I'll start worrying after I get them on 80 :-).

In article
,
"Dick, AA5VU" wrote:

The following are the links to the Kure Island K7C operation's very cool
web page.

The K7C Web site: http://www.cordell.org/htdocs/KURE/
The DXA Web site: http://www.cordell.org/DXA

While the DXA is cool, it is a little confusing. I had a solid RTTY QSO
with K7C on 27-Sep and it still does not show up in the log and neither
does others that worked K7C about the same time. Having to work them
again just creates QRM and is not good. I uploaded my Q to LoTW and will
see what happens later. Hopefully, i am in the real log.

The enemy of good is better and the older style online logging reports
were good. The new 'better' DXA has some room for improvement.

Dick, AA5VU

I worked them again on 29-Sep and this time my call showed up on the web
page. Getting in the log is harder than working them.

AA5VU

Must be nice to even hear them. In SW Ohio I've only heard them twice: Once
on 40 and once on 30. They were 579 on 40 but barely audible on 30. Wire
antennas and 100 watts makes this one a pretty tough catch. Unless something
amazing happens luck-wise or propagation-wise this will remain on my growing
'missed' list.
Still stuck on 320.....


"aRKay" wrote in message
...
In article
,
"Dick, AA5VU" wrote:

The following are the links to the Kure Island K7C operation's very cool
web page.

The K7C Web site: http://www.cordell.org/htdocs/KURE/
The DXA Web site: http://www.cordell.org/DXA

While the DXA is cool, it is a little confusing. I had a solid RTTY QSO
with K7C on 27-Sep and it still does not show up in the log and neither
does others that worked K7C about the same time. Having to work them
again just creates QRM and is not good. I uploaded my Q to LoTW and will
see what happens later. Hopefully, i am in the real log.

The enemy of good is better and the older style online logging reports
were good. The new 'better' DXA has some room for improvement.

Dick, AA5VU

I worked them again on 29-Sep and this time my call showed up on the web
page. Getting in the log is harder than working them.

AA5VU

"Jim Leder" wrote in message
...
Must be nice to even hear them. In SW Ohio I've only heard them twice:
Once on 40 and once on 30. They were 579 on 40 but barely audible on 30.
Wire antennas and 100 watts makes this one a pretty tough catch. Unless
something amazing happens luck-wise or propagation-wise this will remain
on my growing 'missed' list.
Still stuck on 320.....


"aRKay" wrote in message
...
In article
,
"Dick, AA5VU" wrote:

The following are the links to the Kure Island K7C operation's very cool
web page.

The K7C Web site: http://www.cordell.org/htdocs/KURE/
The DXA Web site: http://www.cordell.org/DXA

While the DXA is cool, it is a little confusing. I had a solid RTTY QSO
with K7C on 27-Sep and it still does not show up in the log and neither
does others that worked K7C about the same time. Having to work them
again just creates QRM and is not good. I uploaded my Q to LoTW and will
see what happens later. Hopefully, i am in the real log.

The enemy of good is better and the older style online logging reports
were good. The new 'better' DXA has some room for improvement.

Dick, AA5VU

I worked them again on 29-Sep and this time my call showed up on the web
page. Getting in the log is harder than working them.

AA5VU


Don't feel bad. It's rough for anyone East of the Mississippi. A beam
certainly helps. But they are weak as you know what here in Bama.

Dan/W4NTI

I think they have overcome some of the startup problems. I managed to
get greenies for 15 meter RTTY and 80 meter SSB. The greenies popped
up as well as my call shortly after the QSO. The web page is pretty cool

Dick AA5VU

Pay attention folks.

At the bottom right on the last minute and last hour columns is a remarks
box. In it they have stated time and again that this page IS NOT the log for
the operation. If you made the contact you are in the log. Don't panic if
you don't get a "greenie".

Heard a contact last night and the K7C operator confirmed that the contact
was "number 7" for the operator, all were in the log, he had not a single
"greenie" showing as of yet.

As per their remark section, all QSL's will be from the log, not the web
site and "greenies".

Have a solid contact on 20 SSB from a couple of days ago, no "greenie", my
80 SSB contact this morning shows up, go figure.

Sam - K7SAM

"Topaz305RK" wrote in message
...

Pay attention folks.

At the bottom right on the last minute and last hour columns is a remarks
box. In it they have stated time and again that this page IS NOT the log
for the operation. If you made the contact you are in the log. Don't panic
if you don't get a "greenie".

Heard a contact last night and the K7C operator confirmed that the contact
was "number 7" for the operator, all were in the log, he had not a single
"greenie" showing as of yet.

As per their remark section, all QSL's will be from the log, not the web
site and "greenies".

Have a solid contact on 20 SSB from a couple of days ago, no "greenie", my
80 SSB contact this morning shows up, go figure.

Sam - K7SAM


Hmmm ... all six of my contacts show as green.
Each showed up fairly quickly post QSO.
I'd be a bit concerned about that 20 SSB QSO if I were you ;-)

--

... Hank

http://home.earthlink.net/~horedson
http://home.earthlink.net/~w0rli

One of my "greenies" moved! Had a greenie for both CW and SSB on 18 MHz.
The SSB greenie moved to 14 MHz.
I sure hope that the logs are right as the DXA presentation does not
instill confidence. A great idea. Needs more refining. The uncertainty
leads to more insurance contacts than would otherwise be the case.

A big at-a-boy for trying. It will be all smiles if all of the logged
greenies show up before they leave.


An additional observation: their 7 MHz SSB signal this morning became
much stronger when they switched from NA to JA. I speculate that they
mixed-up the antenna directions.

73 Mac N8TT
--
J. Mc Laughlin; Michigan U.S.A.
Home:

It is probably worst for GM. They have to work right through the North
magnetic pole to reach K7C. That is the way it was with MI when VU4 was on
the air. -- very, very weak signals and no apparent understanding of
propagation.

73 Mac N8TT

--
J. Mc Laughlin; Michigan U.S.A.
Home:

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I worked them again on 29-Sep and this time my call showed up on the
web
page. Getting in the log is harder than working them.

AA5VU


Don't feel bad. It's rough for anyone East of the Mississippi. A beam
certainly helps. But they are weak as you know what here in Bama.

Dan/W4NTI