Yesterday to my big surprise I could copy K5P on 160m for about 30 minutes, seemed to peak around 1445Z. They where as strong as 559 on the peaks with deep QSB. I never ever was thinking it was possible to even hear them the way 160m is these days. However they does not seem to RX very well. Me and OH6KN and one or two others was calling but K5P mostly was calling CQ. Big problem also was that the K5P operator never did announce the RX frequency, he seemed to listen both up and down. I am sorry but this is a very bad way of operating.
73 Jim SM2EKM ----------------------------------------------------------------- On 2016-01-16 18:31, Doug Turnbull wrote:
Dear OMs, Please do not think I am criticizing the team. So far at 17:27 GMT on Jan16 there has only been one 160M QSO with zone 14 which includes EI, G, DL etc. The propagation gods are not favouring us at all. K5P is a hard reach on most bands and once you go away from 17 through 40 meters there are literally only about five QSOs total on the other bands. Some are losing their reason and making poor comments which reflect badly on both them and their nations. We as a hobby need to do better in recognizing the troubles of the DXpedition. 73 Doug EI2CN
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