Phil,
I've listened in a couple times that KO5Y was NC and signals from him
are not strong enough to consider trying to check-in from
Alaska. Your location in the NW is much more favorable for me. I
know there are west coast assist stations but as long as I am running
QRP with the K3/10 that is the situation. Alaska is on the fringe
for the net so this is not a criticism, only an observation. 14.316
carrier was there but the K3 notch took care of it for me. But the
14.310-14.320 band is very active with nets.
One more observation (that AK stations are well aware of) it takes
6-10 dB more signal than heard to work stations outside Alaska (the
so-called one-way propagation). A station in the lower-48 running
100w into a dipole can be heard S3-S5 but it will take 500w+ for a
station in AK to be heard by that station! I suppose the combination
of propagation, local noise, and QRM are responsible.
73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45
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