HI Jeff and Miriam, Great effort and wonderful results making a lot of people happy by your family project. You have made our family happy this Summer by giving us a new country on 6 meters - Canada! Keep up the good work. We enjoyed reading your 160m book. Best wishes from our ham radio family. 73/88 Vic US5WE, Helen UR5WA
>Пятница, 8 ноября 2019, 10:51 UTC от k1zm--- via Topband < >topband@contesting.com >: > >08 Nov 2019 > > >Hi Gang >Jeff and I just got back from a one week "mini dx'pedition" to ZONE 2. Three >ferries and about a 2400km roundtrip drive to 50.112 North from PEI was made >with the express purpose of giving ZONE 2 to our JA 160m friends. >Prior to our trip, only one single JA station had ever managed a qso with ZONE >2 on Topband and that was JA7HMZ about 35 years ago - so this zone was much >needed by most 160m JA dx'ers. Quite of few of our 160m JA friends have been >stuck at 39 zones on 160m for many years - so this was our chance to help them >get ZONE 2 for #40. >So without too much bandwidth - here is our report: >QRV 31 October to 04 November 2019 >Roughly 350 stations worked on Topband - in 42 DXCC countries (we could have >worked more but we took lots of time off in order to sleep and then get up for >the JA window from about 0715z - 1110z.) >We tried some CW but signals were very very weak and FT8 proved the only >possible way to complete contacts to JA. >It was pretty exciting to work these (6) JA friends: >JF8QNF >JA8EAT >JA7NI >JA1BK >JA8WKE >JA3FYC >We decoded no other JA signals on our side- but we know we were decoded by >these other JA stations: >JH7PFD (two decodes) >JE6KYA (one decode) >JA1EOD (several decodes). >Epilogue: >We think that each JA qso that was made completed WAZ 40 on Topband for these >JA friends. (meaning ZONE 2 was most likely their last one needed). >Steve VK6IR called us on ON4KST chat saying he had been chasing ZONE 2 on 80m >for 5BWAZ for 45 years and asked if we could work him on 80m. We did not know >about 80m since the antenna had not been tested for that band but, after >checking it with my analyst, I found it resonated at about 3778kHz. Steve >said he could not do SSB there - so I asked him if he could do digital. YES! >was his reply and we managed a qso on FT8 a few minutes later. >After we uploaded our LOG FILE to LOTW (completed on 06 November) - within >minutes there were 37 DXCC entities instantly confirmed via LOTW - including >VK6IR and all (6) lucky JA friends we had worked. >So we are happy we helped some of our JA friends with WAZ 40 - and, at the >same time, we are a bit disappointed that we could not do more. The A/K were >lousy on nights one and two - things got better on night 3 when we worked the >first 4 JA's - nights 5 and 6 produced one JA qso each - meaning JA8WKE and >JA3FYC. >One amusing final fact - it was roughly a 2400km trip to there and back - so >this works out to about 400km per JA qso. >KOWABUNGA! but we had a great time trying this - and are pleased we had some >limited success in doing so. >We wish to mention our special thanks to Don Toman (K2KQ) and to Frank Donovan >(W3LPL) for their kind assistance with our antenna planning. Their input and >suggestions were invaluable in making this happen! >73/88 de Miriam (VY2NA) and Jeff VY2ZM >Email: k...@aol.com >_________________ >Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector -- 73, Victor Goncharsky US5WE/K1WE (UW5W in VHF contests, ex UB5WE), P.E. UARL Technical and VHF Committies DXCC Honor Roll #1 (Mixed, Phone), 10BDXCC, 8BWAS DXCC card checker (160 meters). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 73, Victor Goncharsky US5WE/K1WE (UW5W in VHF contests, ex UB5WE), P.E. UARL Technical and VHF Committies DXCC Honor Roll #1 (Mixed, Phone), 10BDXCC, 8BWAS DXCC card checker (160 meters). _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector