Atmospherics can play a big part in intelligibility that no rx can resolve. On T32C I had what I think would be called whispering galleries: the signal circled the world a few times filling in gaps with each pass, so all I heard was a continuous tone. This went on for almost all of a 4 hour shift as the caller tried to get in. Near the end of my shift it started to break up and I could hear all the elements of his call and worked him immediately. He was a good signal. I'm not saying that was the cause here, but I did learn a lesson.
David G3UNA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Gregory" <garyvk...@gmail.com> To: "Bob K6UJ" <k...@pacbell.net> Cc: "Elecraft" <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 9:51 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island > *(TIC)....well all I can say is that is not working...:-) > > I was very surprised to hear very good operators NOT being able to > distinguish call signs over and over again. > > I thought it was me so I went up to listen in the pileup from JA and > granted they are sometimes S9+20 with the 'weaker' ones @ S9 BUT I am able > to hear several call signs clearly and I wrote them down as I listened. > > I mentioned this to another K3 owner with 59 years experience (I'm a > relative newbie at this) and he cam back after several minutes and made > the > same comment. > > Whilst I don't want to come across as too biased, I was just making an > observation based on my perception. I will say that here their audio is > excellent and the operators are extremely patient and polite. So Kudo's to > all the operators I have heard so far. > > I do find it interesting when I think back to some recent Dxpeditions and > the way the operators could grab full call signs and were logging stations > quickly. From memory most of these were using K3's and the pileups were > pretty chaotic as usual. > > Worked them on 80/20/15 and 10M but the WARC bands are proving > problematical for me with just a dipole to work with against the > pileup..:-( > > 73 > * > On 11 September 2012 07:29, Bob K6UJ <k...@pacbell.net> wrote: > >> I think that Icom is getting tired of seeing the K3's being the preferred >> rig for dxpeditions and decided >> to provide the IC-7600's for the Swains Island dxpedition in hopes of >> improving their image. :-) >> >> >> Bob >> K6UJ >> >> >> >> >> On Sep 10, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: >> >> > *Tony, >> > >> > I have worked them on 4 bands so far bbut I have noticed they >> > continually >> > ask for a partial call sign to be repeated. By this I noticed they will >> ask >> > "the station ending in Tango your call?" and they do this with almost >> every >> > call and most of the time on all bands. >> > >> > Listening to the pileup I am able to clearly distinguish quite a few >> calls >> > and I am not that far away from them by distance. >> > >> > You have to wonder if their job would have been easier IF they were >> > using >> > K3's >> > >> > :-) >> > * >> > On 11 September 2012 00:33, Tony Estep <estept...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> The NH8S expedition, partly sponsored by Elecraft, has been going >> strong >> >> for a while and will be running until the 19th. Swains Island is the >> 31st >> >> most-needed DX country, according to DX News. They are using KPA500 >> amps, >> >> although not K3s (tsk-tsk). For whatever reason, the pileups have not >> been >> >> too bad, and the ops are excellent. Their site is NH8S.org >> >> >> >> Tony KT0NY >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> >> Elecraft mailing list >> >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > *Gary* >> > *Start the day off slow, then taper off.........* >> > K3 #679 >> > KPA500FT #18 >> > KAT500FT 007 >> > P3 #1629 >> > ______________________________________________________________ >> > Elecraft mailing list >> > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> > >> > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> > > > > -- > *Gary* > *Start the day off slow, then taper off.........* > K3 #679 > KPA500FT #18 > KAT500FT 007 > P3 #1629 > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
