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Peter Dougherty .......
That's what I was until a few months ago (now 600W and a dipole). After I wrote that article last night I spun the VFO around 20 metre phone, and I heard two ZLs and a VK3 between midnight and 1 am, so they're still possible. I don't get out too well on 30, nor am I a big CW fan, so I can't say for sure how that band is now. Right now, 30 is noisy. Very noisy. Almost as bad as 40 at night. Nothing like the summer to get the static going on the lower bands. But, this is typical, so I'll wait it out. No big one. 30 was good to me for most of the winter/spring, getting me some good, if fairly common DX like VK5, 3B8, 3B9, JY9, HF0, and KH6. Missed the XF4 and T33C on 30, but picked them up elsewhere. Most of the time, I'm on 30, 40, or 20 CW, and RTTY wherever I can find it. I actially just restarted my station in December, after a few years of being off, and a few months of indecisiveness. I started the country/state/zone count clean-I only took 4 contacts from my old log from the mid/late 90's and carried them over into the new logbook/logfile. The couple of entities I worked and didn't know if I would see again for a long time (E44, HK0/m, R1MV, and OJ0) I kept-the other few years worth of stuff was disregarded. So upon getting back on the air, I was wondering where all the Asian stations are! I guess that was the whole "point" of the topic. Being on the downward slide of the cycle doesn't help, but I guess we all have to make do for now. So, in the 6 months or so since then, I put up about 130 countries on the board and have most of the WAS done and WAC is finished as well. For a minimal station and sporadic operating times, not bad. Just have to get the cards for them. Work in progress, as per usual. Its been nice being back-nice ragchews in addition to the DX/contest stuff going on. That reminds me-have to prep and submit my CW/WPX log. The hustle never ends..... 3's, Ken/ZN |
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Peter Dougherty .......
That's what I was until a few months ago (now 600W and a dipole). After I wrote that article last night I spun the VFO around 20 metre phone, and I heard two ZLs and a VK3 between midnight and 1 am, so they're still possible. I don't get out too well on 30, nor am I a big CW fan, so I can't say for sure how that band is now. Right now, 30 is noisy. Very noisy. Almost as bad as 40 at night. Nothing like the summer to get the static going on the lower bands. But, this is typical, so I'll wait it out. No big one. 30 was good to me for most of the winter/spring, getting me some good, if fairly common DX like VK5, 3B8, 3B9, JY9, HF0, and KH6. Missed the XF4 and T33C on 30, but picked them up elsewhere. Most of the time, I'm on 30, 40, or 20 CW, and RTTY wherever I can find it. I actially just restarted my station in December, after a few years of being off, and a few months of indecisiveness. I started the country/state/zone count clean-I only took 4 contacts from my old log from the mid/late 90's and carried them over into the new logbook/logfile. The couple of entities I worked and didn't know if I would see again for a long time (E44, HK0/m, R1MV, and OJ0) I kept-the other few years worth of stuff was disregarded. So upon getting back on the air, I was wondering where all the Asian stations are! I guess that was the whole "point" of the topic. Being on the downward slide of the cycle doesn't help, but I guess we all have to make do for now. So, in the 6 months or so since then, I put up about 130 countries on the board and have most of the WAS done and WAC is finished as well. For a minimal station and sporadic operating times, not bad. Just have to get the cards for them. Work in progress, as per usual. Its been nice being back-nice ragchews in addition to the DX/contest stuff going on. That reminds me-have to prep and submit my CW/WPX log. The hustle never ends..... 3's, Ken/ZN |
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Ken Boasi wrote:
Here's one for you guys in the Northeast/Eastern USA-When do you find are the best times to work into Asia and Oceania from the NE? I've been back on HF about 6 months and have heard nothing from VU/AP/YA/YB/P2 and very few VK/ZL/JA, etc, only few on 30 and 20. Tnx-Ken N2ZN Grayline propagation is quite useful on low bands 3.5-10MHz, please look at http://www.dxatlas.com/ for realtime grayline map software. On higher bands other than 14MHz the grayline is not so accurate, as a daylight is needed Kari Oh6io |
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Ken Boasi wrote:
Here's one for you guys in the Northeast/Eastern USA-When do you find are the best times to work into Asia and Oceania from the NE? I've been back on HF about 6 months and have heard nothing from VU/AP/YA/YB/P2 and very few VK/ZL/JA, etc, only few on 30 and 20. Tnx-Ken N2ZN Grayline propagation is quite useful on low bands 3.5-10MHz, please look at http://www.dxatlas.com/ for realtime grayline map software. On higher bands other than 14MHz the grayline is not so accurate, as a daylight is needed Kari Oh6io |