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K4HB

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Re: TN8N - CONGO
« Reply #45 on: January 17, 2023, 08:49:32 AM »

Woo hoo!  Got him on 60m for country #100 on 60.

TN8K on 60M got me rolling. Prior to last night, only had Andorra and Navassa on 60M. Worked Andorra for the heck of it, since the band was something new at the time. Got Navassa on everything else, including 6M, so went for it on 60M. Figured that was a chance at something that would never occur again in my lifetime.

Didn't work anything else on 60, since there's no DXCC credit for the band. Saw TN8K spotted on 60, wanted to give it a try, but my FT-1000 is down and my IC-746Pro wouldn't transmit on 60. Made the modification and worked him. After seeing all the activity on 5.357, started calling some of them. Then European stations started calling me like I was rare DX. JT Alert was sounding off with "New DXCC" every cycle. Worked 30 something countries, and some states. Now I'll keep it up for countries and states. Maybe we'll get ARRL credit one day, and maybe not. And if that day comes and credit is given, don't know it there will be a start date and we'll have to start over. But whatever, it's still fun.
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Re: TN8N - CONGO
« Reply #46 on: January 17, 2023, 10:21:21 AM »

60m is fun and of course a unique challenge from the USA with our restrictions.  I worked TN8K last night on 60 CW.  He was transmitting on 5.352, which is not legal here, but listening down 4 kHz on 5.348 which is a US channel.  My 40 ft at the apex inverted vee does surprisingly well on 60.

I've heard VR2, BY and YB in our local mornings.  I had a partial QSO with BY on FT8, but no 73.  The others couldn't hear me.  I have worked ZL a number of times.
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Re: TN8N - CONGO
« Reply #47 on: January 17, 2023, 12:19:22 PM »

Got Navassa on everything else, including 6M, so went for it on 60M.

I didn't have gear for 60m and wasn't able to work them on 6m, but I managed 160-10m AND one of only 29 contacts via satellite. REALLY stoked about that one!   :D 8)
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Re: TN8N - CONGO
« Reply #48 on: January 17, 2023, 05:12:43 PM »


BTW, the call sign is TN8K not TN8N...

73 Dragan K0AP


Hi Dragan,

Thanks for noticing my typo.

If a moderator reads this, please edit the title to read: "TN8K - CONGO"

Thanks,

Marvin VE3VEE

The moderators are just around when you don't want them to lock a thread.

Nice to work you on FT8 last week Marvin! Thanks for the Q.
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« Reply #49 on: January 18, 2023, 02:27:27 AM »

Well, yesterday's early morning paid off with a 40 m FT4 QSO to give me a new band, and just before I had to head out for work, a 12 m SSB QSO for a new mode. So, eventually I managed to make two new bands (10 and 40 m) and two new modes (Data and Phone). I just don't get this multiple sub-modes thing. Just do FT8. FT4 and RTTY become dupes as most will have worked them on FT8. Same for FM after SSB. All it does is drive up the QSO count, for vanity I guess.
Signals here were never strong, and always a battle for any QSO. No hope for 160 and 80 m. Nobody from my area made QSO on those bands.
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« Reply #50 on: January 18, 2023, 06:19:13 AM »

I needed my RX flags to put them in the long on 80 an 160.  Once I heard them it didn't take long for them to hear me on either my 40 ft high top loaded 80M vertical or 160M Inverted-L at 36feet .

Zak W1VT
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« Reply #51 on: January 18, 2023, 10:08:58 AM »

I needed my RX flags to put them in the long on 80 an 160.  Once I heard them it didn't take long for them to hear me on either my 40 ft high top loaded 80M vertical or 160M Inverted-L at 36feet .

Zak W1VT

Both are QSOs I wouldn't expect given the very modest antennas.  Congrats!

73,

Chris  NU1O
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Re: TN8N - CONGO
« Reply #52 on: January 18, 2023, 02:06:05 PM »

I needed my RX flags to put them in the long on 80 an 160.  Once I heard them it didn't take long for them to hear me on either my 40 ft high top loaded 80M vertical or 160M Inverted-L at 36feet .
Congratulations on the low band QSOs! It was not easy for me to get them on 80m, primarily because I simply had no copy through my s7 or so noise level (I could probably benefit from some sort of RX antenna) on my 80m dipole that slopes down from 70 ft to probably 30 or so ft. Finally, last night they were just barely making it through. I got sent a report but did not get a RR73 until after many minutes of sending R-19 over and over  ;D

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Re: TN8N - CONGO
« Reply #53 on: January 18, 2023, 07:16:36 PM »

Heard TN8K on 7031 kHz tonight, loud, but tuned in right at 0300 and all hell broke loose with the CWT guys - not even "QRL?" first. So much for being classy CW ops. Just blasting away totally wiping him and his pileup out.

Worked out OK though.

Drove him to 7001 kHz - one call and in the log. Now just need 80 and 160 for CW sweep (not counting 60M)

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« Reply #54 on: January 20, 2023, 07:39:52 AM »

78,000 FT contacts. Can someone explain how many mouse clicks that would be to log those in non-automated mode/meeting ARRL requirements for valid contacts?
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« Reply #55 on: January 20, 2023, 09:19:34 AM »

QRT as of this morning. I had fun chasing them, although I had no luck at all on 80 or 160. Filled in a bunch of digital band slots but since I have TN confirmed from 10-160 it was just an exercise in pileup practice, to get me in the mindset I'll need for Bouvet. I didn't even start calling them until late last week, in fact. Best Q was 10m FM, a mode I haven't worked in at least a decade if not longer, and two bands of RTTY. Keeping my fingers crossed that this might come in handy soon. :)
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Re: TN8N - CONGO
« Reply #56 on: January 20, 2023, 09:25:40 AM »

78,000 FT contacts. Can someone explain how many mouse clicks that would be to log those in non-automated mode/meeting ARRL requirements for valid contacts?

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« Reply #57 on: January 20, 2023, 10:12:11 AM »

Clublog statistics show the day with the most QSOs is January 13th.   That was 14557 QSOs.

The website shows what looks like nine team members on site.

Meanwhile, I looked up T32C, a very large QSO count expedition from the pre-FT8 era.

Their peak day (also according to Clublog) was 10-3 at 13445.  They had 11 operators.

So, roughly comparable. 

And, that was just one operation I looked up.
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« Reply #58 on: January 20, 2023, 10:50:06 AM »

Finally worked them on 30 last night for a new band country.  Worked them on 40 early in the DXpedition for a new one there.  Great DXpedition!  Lets hope the OM guys can pull of something similar from 3B7 in March.  I need a few band fills there.

73 John AF5CC
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« Reply #59 on: January 20, 2023, 10:50:34 AM »

I was looking at some of that same data.  Some more interesting comparisons:

- both at the same part of the Sunspot Cycle although one in the Pacific and one in Africa
- T32C had about 10 more active days than TN8K. 
- If you remove the extra active days, the QSO counts are very comparable in totals - gross totals were 213k for T32C and 164k for TN8K.
- T32C had 47k Uniques and TN8K had 26k Uniques.  Again if you normalize days, T32C has 33k uniques.
- The percentage of modes for T32C was 42% Voice, 48% CW, and 10% Digital (RTTY and PSK)
- The percentage of modes for TN8K was 19% Voice, 31% CW, 48% Digital.

Conclusions? 

Mine are that there are less DXers in the world than 10 years ago but still quite a few ~30,000?  And clearly Voice is giving up Qs hugely, and even CW is dropping, in favor of Digital.
What's the chicken vs the egg?  People love digital? Or DXpeditions are going to it because its easier?  Not sure, but the math says that the ratios are changing however not so much as to just go digital.  Ortherwise, TN8K wouldn;t have worked 80,000 Qs non Digital.

Ed  N1UR
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