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KB3LIX

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What have you worked at the bottom of the cycle?
« Reply #15 on: February 28, 2007, 08:52:04 PM »

Missed one on the orig search,

Jan Mayen on 20 meters.
All contacts are SSB phone.

Sure hope there are some new ones on this weekend in the ARRL Intl DX contest.

Good Dx to all,

bill
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K3NRX

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« Reply #16 on: March 01, 2007, 06:30:25 AM »

I've been stuck at 126 for a long while now.

REPLY: Don't feel bad, Eric...I have been stuck at 262 for a while now too....As I mentiond before, the only new ones I have worked (at least that I can remember) are Aves Island and Montenegro.....Anything else rare that has been on the air I already have, or can't hear due to us being on the down side.....That's how it is when you run a G5RV and 100 watts!.....And of course, repeat countries & QSOs are always welcome.....Don't worry, things are sure to improve in the coming months........
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« Reply #17 on: March 01, 2007, 06:31:21 AM »

"WHAT THE H*** IS IT GOING TO BE LIKE WHEN THE SUNSPOT CYCLE STARTS CLIMBING ??? "

Awesome.

I worked Indonesia and Japan from my college dorm room with 100W and a 20 foot wire 12 feet off the ground fed against my window frame ... on 10m.  I added four or five all time new ones from my dorm room in 2000...

When I was home for the summer I could could easily get a good run of EU on 10m with 100W and a 2 element yagi.

12m is a really great band too.

15m will be solid for worldwide DX earlier than either of those.  I remember working my first BY contact on 15m ... very exciting.

20m will stay open throughout much of the night when the K index is low.  No more of this closing a couple hours after dark stuff.

It's a lot of fun.

Dan
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« Reply #18 on: March 02, 2007, 06:50:41 AM »

Only new ones since 9/06 were the VU7.

Prior to that was 4O3T and the KH8 Swains Island.

I'm at 340 total and the number doesn't move much these days.

Missed out on the VU4.

Phil  KB9CRY
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N3OX

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« Reply #19 on: March 02, 2007, 08:08:42 PM »

"I'm at 340 total and the number doesn't move much these days. "

You're in "wait for a new one to exist" territory there, dude.

I missed VU4 too... I was still living in the apartment.

Dan
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KA5ROW

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« Reply #20 on: March 04, 2007, 10:13:55 PM »

I am a casual operator so about 65 % of my contacts are on 40, 80, 160 meters. The other 35 % on 20M. I am so looking forward for the up swing, And when that happens. I will redirect my operating heavily toward 10, 15, 20, with special contraction on 12, & 17 Meters.
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« Reply #21 on: March 30, 2007, 11:34:33 AM »

These are some of my new DXCC entities since 11/2006
Asterisk means I used a KW and a beam. The rest were worked on 200 watts and a vertical Cushcraft R7.

VU7**
3A2
9Q5**
9U0**
1A4
3XM6
5W0
T30 AND T32**
ZL7
ZL8
9M8**
9N7**
E51P
E51N
R1FJL
4S7**
8Q7**
D60
HK0

I think the point of the post is that rare stuff gets worked every day. The DXpeditions generally have super ops and equipment. Anyone with medium skilla and a useable antenna can work most of the DXpeditions. From the East Coast USA, on a daily basis, 40 meters is open to VK, JA and ZL, KH6 and other interesting pacific DX most mornings, and EU and SA is daily. Lots of Africa 40 meters at 10 PM. Check the DX clusters and keep listening to the weak signals.
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