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eHam Forums / DXing / RE: Lower Your Power and Improve Your Pileup Skill
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on: May 17, 2013, 05:12:14 AM
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Does Bob advocate tail-ending in the 3rd edition? I read his book about 25 years ago so I am nowhere close to 100% certain if he wrote he used tail-ending but I was a new ham when I read his book and many of the techniques I learned were from his first book. I do recall a time when it was relatively common for a ham to drop their call in near the end of a QSO. I would not tail-end now unless I was letting somebody I work often know I was on frequency but I think the views on tail-ending may have evolved over time. Perhaps tail-ending was considered appropriate back then and views have evolved over time. I'm not certain when the DX Code was published. Most likely during one of my breaks from the hobby and after the first edition of Bob's book was published.
He talks about tail-ending and describes the technique but gives many caveats for its usage and comes fairly close to discouraging it. IIRC it boils down to "maybe try it once 100hz off frequency if you really think it will work but if it doesn't work the first time or two STOP doing it." |
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eHam Forums / DXing / RE: Lower Your Power and Improve Your Pileup Skill
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on: May 16, 2013, 10:55:10 AM
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Different DX-ers have different pileup "styles":
Any others?
12) "Uncle Boyd" - Guy with boatanchors, legal limit, and a sloppy fist manually keying at 13 WPM while the DX is sending 25+. Don't laugh, I hear this guy get plenty of QSOs. |
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eHam Forums / VHF / UHF / RE: Nice little opening on 6m this afternoon
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on: May 16, 2013, 05:27:37 AM
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Had a nice opening this evening... worked the west coast for the first time! Worked washington state. Also worked Idaho!  Same here... nice pipeline between VA and the PNW. Doggone it!
I just shut down my Flex and the PC.
As a 6 Meter rookie, where's a good place to listen?
Should I just park the radio on the calling frequency?
Jim
If you have a spare rig you definitely should park your radio on 125... Or keep it there when you're doing something else. I only have one rig so I can't usually do this. But, people will spot 6m beacons they hear or QSOs they make on the clusters. So I almost always have a cluster window open on my computer and always set my cluster filters to allow 6m spots to pass. |
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eHam Forums / DXing / RE: Heard Island Dxpedition
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on: May 13, 2013, 10:25:56 AM
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A second benefit of the restructuring is that we will plan for amateur radio operations to be carried out over a longer time, up to 30 or more days. Furthermore, the campsite will be located on the east side of Heard Island, enabling paths to areas of the world that were not accessible in the last operation (in 1997). With the requirement of the longer stay on Heard Island, we will be assembling a new radio team with operators who are highly experienced and dedicated to the challenge of activating Heard Island with the new project requirements. Wow, 30 days of ops on Heard!! |
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eHam Forums / DXing / RE: FO/KH0PR
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on: May 09, 2013, 07:15:57 PM
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Anybody hear them today? In past days they have been 339 at best but I have heard them. No sign of them today, however.
I think I saw them spotted on 12m RTTY around 2300 or 0000 tonight. |
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eHam Forums / DXing / RE: FO/KH0PR
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on: May 08, 2013, 05:45:06 PM
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Same case here, I just heard him call "CQ de FO/KH0PR OC-114 UP" which would be Austral.
Huzzah!
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eHam Forums / DXing / RE: VK9NT - Norfolk Island
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on: May 08, 2013, 05:45:19 AM
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Thank you and the team for the great work Luke. You signals are very strong on the high bands here on the east coast of the US. You were an honest 5/7-8 on 12 meters last night in Virginia.
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eHam Forums / DXing / RE: French Polynesia/Austral Islands
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on: May 03, 2013, 06:08:17 AM
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They are still QRV. I worked FO/KH0PR last night on 15m CW, according to his plans he would have been on Pukapuka. Got him around 0000 I think. He was about 5/4 here in Central VA.
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eHam Forums / DXing / RE: BY activity picking up?
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on: April 29, 2013, 10:18:13 AM
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You can work BY with wire antennas, you just won't win a pileup so you have to hunt them the old fashioned way. Heard a BY on 15 last night, around 0000 UTC maybe... Good signal. Try 15 or 20m around local dusk on the east coast for BY.
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eHam Forums / DXing / RE: Death on Tuvalu?
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on: March 29, 2013, 09:01:07 AM
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Very unfortunate. Just a reminder as to the risks these guys take on sometimes when they make these trips, even "holiday" style ones.
RIP OM
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eHam Forums / DXing / RE: How many of us are not using beams?
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on: March 28, 2013, 12:20:12 PM
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I operate barefoot and have only used wire antennas. I want to keep it that way too for as long as possible. I'm up to 220 worked in around 2 total years of serious DX chasing (was QRT at various stages). For one year of that time all of my antennas were dipoles in the attic of my last QTH. I like to build my own wire antennas for learning's sake as well as the satisfaction of using something I built myself to sneak in around the big guns and snag a new one. I'm not against towers or beams I just don't want to spend the money on something like that right now.
Right now I'm using loops, a half-square and a dipole. The loops are vertical deltas. I like loops because I live on a small lot with trees and they are easy to put up. A loop probably won't make you heard anymore than a high, clear dipole will, but they are fine listening antennas and are easy to use on harmonic bands.
I also have a 12 meter Moxon that I do not have up right now because one of the insulators broke during a storm. I haven't bothered to put it back up since I'm moving soon.
I'm planning on toying with Lazy Hs and other wire arrays/curtains at the new QTH because in the past couple of years I've missed two activations that I really needed, VP8O and ZS8. I just didn't have enough gain to work those guys. Obviously ZS8 is coming back on the air again soon so I want to be ready for it (not to mention VK0/H.) Who knows when VP8O will be back on the air? Making sure I get VK0/H will probably finally convince me to get a small 500w amplifier.
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