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What is the best chance to work XF4IH?? I have been watching the cluster
spots from the beginning of operation, but no luck... I am using 3el tribander but I could not heard them AT ALL!!! Any suggestions and comments are welcome! 73! 9A3MN Zlatko Feric Primorska 28 HR-35000 Slavonski Brod CROATIA |
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Walt Davidson wrote:
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:08:47 +0100, "Zlatko Feric" wrote: What is the best chance to work XF4IH?? I have been watching the cluster spots from the beginning of operation, but no luck... I am using 3el tribander but I could not heard them AT ALL!!! Same here. I have given up trying. The original team of 6 operators had to be cut down to 3 and they only have 100 Watts and dipoles for 160-30 meters and a small tribander for 10, 15 and 20 meters. However, a new operator is supposed to join the team within the next two days and he will at least bring an amplifier and *experience* to the island. Most of the operators are not aware of the European opening times, which is why the level of frustration is so high among the European stations. By now, every US-station will have worked XF4 on one mode/band, at least that is my impression from seeing permanent questions as to 160, RTTY or PSK activities. Current conditions add to the frustration: With A=27 and K=5 it is a tough spot to work from Europe, even considering that propagation only passes the polar zones. Best chances should be between 02:30 UTC and EU sunrise on 40 meters and early morning on 20, possibly late afternoon on 15/17 meters. However, they have rarely been active during these times. Heard them fine on 40 m on Monday, but the US wall made it impossible to work them with anything less than a Yagi and kilowatt combo. Frustrating, indeed. Peter Lemken DF5JT Berlin -- Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming, 'Wow, what a ride!' |
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Walt Davidson wrote:
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:08:47 +0100, "Zlatko Feric" wrote: What is the best chance to work XF4IH?? I have been watching the cluster spots from the beginning of operation, but no luck... I am using 3el tribander but I could not heard them AT ALL!!! Same here. I have given up trying. The original team of 6 operators had to be cut down to 3 and they only have 100 Watts and dipoles for 160-30 meters and a small tribander for 10, 15 and 20 meters. However, a new operator is supposed to join the team within the next two days and he will at least bring an amplifier and *experience* to the island. Most of the operators are not aware of the European opening times, which is why the level of frustration is so high among the European stations. By now, every US-station will have worked XF4 on one mode/band, at least that is my impression from seeing permanent questions as to 160, RTTY or PSK activities. Current conditions add to the frustration: With A=27 and K=5 it is a tough spot to work from Europe, even considering that propagation only passes the polar zones. Best chances should be between 02:30 UTC and EU sunrise on 40 meters and early morning on 20, possibly late afternoon on 15/17 meters. However, they have rarely been active during these times. Heard them fine on 40 m on Monday, but the US wall made it impossible to work them with anything less than a Yagi and kilowatt combo. Frustrating, indeed. Peter Lemken DF5JT Berlin -- Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming, 'Wow, what a ride!' |
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Peter Lemken wrote:
By now, every US-station will have worked XF4 on one mode/band, at least that is my impression from seeing permanent questions as to 160, RTTY or PSK activities. Not here... not even heard. (someone spotted them last night on 160, but when I turned on the rig the Spanish-accented operator on that frequency turned out to be EA9IE!) have rarely been active during these times. Heard them fine on 40 m on Monday, but the US wall made it impossible to work them with anything less than a Yagi and kilowatt combo. Now you know how I feel about the YA and YI operationsgrin... (actually I did manage to work YI9ZF on 17m three days ago. It wasn't easy, the prop was just barely there. ) Luckily I don't need XF4, but it would be nice to get them on CW, and/or some of the low bands. -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com |
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Peter Lemken wrote:
By now, every US-station will have worked XF4 on one mode/band, at least that is my impression from seeing permanent questions as to 160, RTTY or PSK activities. Not here... not even heard. (someone spotted them last night on 160, but when I turned on the rig the Spanish-accented operator on that frequency turned out to be EA9IE!) have rarely been active during these times. Heard them fine on 40 m on Monday, but the US wall made it impossible to work them with anything less than a Yagi and kilowatt combo. Now you know how I feel about the YA and YI operationsgrin... (actually I did manage to work YI9ZF on 17m three days ago. It wasn't easy, the prop was just barely there. ) Luckily I don't need XF4, but it would be nice to get them on CW, and/or some of the low bands. -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com |
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Zlatko Feric wrote:
What is the best chance to work XF4IH?? I have been watching the cluster spots from the beginning of operation, but no luck... I am using 3el tribander but I could not heard them AT ALL!!! Any suggestions and comments are welcome! 73! 9A3MN Zlatko Feric Primorska 28 HR-35000 Slavonski Brod CROATIA I worked him a couple nights back, PSK31, on 7036 kHz, about 0230 Z. He worked a bunch a guys on your side of the pond that evening (09 march, I think) Harv, AI9NL |
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Zlatko Feric wrote:
What is the best chance to work XF4IH?? I have been watching the cluster spots from the beginning of operation, but no luck... I am using 3el tribander but I could not heard them AT ALL!!! Any suggestions and comments are welcome! 73! 9A3MN Zlatko Feric Primorska 28 HR-35000 Slavonski Brod CROATIA I worked him a couple nights back, PSK31, on 7036 kHz, about 0230 Z. He worked a bunch a guys on your side of the pond that evening (09 march, I think) Harv, AI9NL |
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"Peter Dougherty" wrote in message
... (Peter Lemken) said : However, a new operator is supposed to join the team within the next two days and he will at least bring an amplifier and *experience* to the island. Most of the operators are not aware of the European opening times, which is why the level of frustration is so high among the European stations. Peter, Not just EU is frustrated. Even modest stations in the northeastern parts of North America are having a tough time of it, both due to bad propagation in the last few days and inexperienced operators. W1s especially, but 2's aren't much better off. For a station essentially off the coast of XE/W6 land it should be no problem for anybody in NA to work them reliably on most bands, but it's not the case. Nothing here on 10 or 12 at all (although I suspect that's propagation - MUF hasn't been above 22 or 23 MHz for the last week at my QTH), only a faint whisper on 40 last week and nothing on 80 (though many in NA did get them on 80, they were inaudible here). For ten meters it is certainly propagation. They were 20 over nine in Oregon for hours a couple days ago, and were having very little luck with anything east of the Rockies. On 30 meters the signal has ranged anywhere from "Yeah it's on the cluster but I can't hear squat" to "Why can't they hear anything but W6s, they are S9 here?" ;-) -- ... Hank http://horedson.home.att.net http://w0rli.home.att.net |
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