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Re: 3Y0J Bouvet
« Reply #1230 on: February 21, 2023, 02:22:08 PM »

Only 4 days until we reach Cape Town! I only wish we had popcorn here at Marama I could enjoy while reading eham ha ha

I am open for any serious an well thought questions. I am not going anywhere in 4 days, so have plenty of time answering what we succeeded with, and what we did not.

Congrats to those who made it in the log!

73 from South Atlantic Ocean

Hi Ken, wishing you and your team safe travels home! Thank you very much for you and your team's efforts in putting Bouvet on the air. I'm greatful for my QSO and for the ATNO! I think you guys did a great job - adapting as you had to in order to get Bouvet on the air.
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Re: 3Y0J Bouvet
« Reply #1231 on: February 21, 2023, 05:53:58 PM »

Gino, of course one *can* make some contacts (particularly on a wide open, uncrowded 10M band) with robo CW, but you're not going to make a whole lot of them, or much of any in marginal conditions . 

Fourty meters at 8PM Saturday night might be quite a bit more challenging.
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Re: 3Y0J Bouvet
« Reply #1232 on: February 21, 2023, 06:00:01 PM »

hey Ken thanks for the post and thanks for the atno you and the crew never disappoint if my station is working as it should. It was great to have the pipe line to vk for 30 mins every night on 17m  every one who had a reasonable setup and was there got you guys in the log. I'm very happy ever one is safe and on the way home that was always very important

ok a question for Ken la7gia and the 3y0j crew could you explain why you chose not to use 20m very much or 40m, 20m is a big mystery for most of us.
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Re: 3Y0J Bouvet
« Reply #1233 on: February 21, 2023, 06:01:34 PM »

@Ken, GIA: regarding band choices, why no 20m? Alot of questions about that.

My opinion is that 3Y0J will be looked back upon as epic. Congratulations.
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Re: 3Y0J Bouvet
« Reply #1234 on: February 21, 2023, 06:33:13 PM »

Grid Squares ?

Look West, especially on 6mtrs:
   https://www.dx-world.net/kh7z-mm-gridding-across-the-pacific/
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Re: 3Y0J Bouvet
« Reply #1235 on: February 21, 2023, 08:34:12 PM »

What direction would you turn your antenna to work V85RH on 40m at 2200Z?
I wouldn't have known until 2200z on Sunday. Thank you for that tip, incidentally. Greatly appreciated.
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Re: 3Y0J Bouvet
« Reply #1236 on: February 21, 2023, 09:11:37 PM »

Zero "skill" is needed to work a DXped or DX during  a contest on CW. Install CWDecoder on you PC and then program your call in one memory of your IC-7300 and 5NN TU in another.
I've yet to see a CW Decoder that's more than "very casual" help, at best. I love operating CW, but I cannot run in that mode. I can do assisted S/P pretty and scour mults really well by ear but couldn't run in a DX CW contest if my life depended on it. That skill is the difference between great CW ops and guys like me. I freely admit my code sucks and will always suck, but it's just so enjoyable to do, even knowing my skill limits.

I keep CW GET running in a window but it's more useless than useful. Occasionally I will be able to look and see a missed exchange or a callsign my brain just went tilt when trying to copy, but otherwise decoders are laughable when signals are marginal.

When I first started getting serious about CW contests the best tool I found that enabled me (and probably thousands of other crappy CW ops) to operate CW contests competently was ESM mode in N1MM. I don't have to worry about a suddenly sloppy fist, but when it comes to calling in the proper time and getting the speed just right what I find today works better is having N1MM set to 35 WPM, and my paddles set to 25 to call slower stations.
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Re: 3Y0J Bouvet
« Reply #1237 on: February 21, 2023, 09:23:28 PM »

I don't use a memory keyer.  I count on using my keyer paddle to send call sign fills.  When I worked 9N7AA he first got my call as K1VT. 
I'm sure I sent W1 a couple times instead of just mashing a keyer memory button a few times. 
I've heard other operators just repeat their call over and over again and that doesn't seem to work as well.

As a stroke survivor I'm pleased to know I've recovered from the stroke well enough to do that.  Not everyone makes that sort of recovery.
It wasn't just another CW contact.  It was entity #325 on CW.
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