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KM4SII

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ET3AA - Ethiopia
« on: January 16, 2023, 04:10:52 PM »

A team consisting of EY8MM, K4ZW, and W9XY is currently active as ET3AA through January 21st. They are battling local noise but seem to be making progress in mitigating it. They are reasonably strong on 30m CW at the moment with a large pileup.

It took several hours of off-and-on calling to bust the pileup, but I finally worked them at 2355z for my first ATNO of 2023  ;D That is #275 worked for me.

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Re: ET3AA - Ethiopia
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2023, 04:32:51 PM »

A team consisting of EY8MM, K4ZW, and W9XY is currently active as ET3AA through January 21st. They are battling local noise but seem to be making progress in mitigating it. They are reasonably strong on 30m CW at the moment with a large pileup.

It took several hours of off-and-on calling to bust the pileup, but I finally worked them at 2355z for my first ATNO of 2023  ;D That is #275 worked for me.

73,
Mason - KM4SII
Good job. Looks like a great team.
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EI2GLB

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Re: ET3AA - Ethiopia
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2023, 05:26:15 AM »

Anyone have any joy yet,

I need a lot of slots with this one as I worked ET7L (80-15m CW/Digi) years ago but they were not approved for credit,

Huge pileup on 30m CW last night but it was well behaved and the Op was working well through it,

I also got them on the bold mode on 12m but we will not ruin this thread by talking about that,  ;D

Trevor
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KE4YD

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Re: ET3AA - Ethiopia
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2023, 06:31:41 AM »

The logs have now been uploaded to Clublog.
New one for me on 12 and 30 meters.
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David  KE4YD
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Re: ET3AA - Ethiopia
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2023, 06:37:53 AM »

Anyone have any joy yet,

I need a lot of slots with this one as I worked ET7L (80-15m CW/Digi) years ago but they were not approved for credit,

Huge pileup on 30m CW last night but it was well behaved and the Op was working well through it,

I also got them on the bold mode on 12m but we will not ruin this thread by talking about that,  ;D

Trevor
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Just 2 slots so far 30 CW and 10 FT8.

The 30 CW was a bit rough as the pile was huge. His signals peaked after several hours of trying and I managed it.  This is an ATNO for me
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Re: ET3AA - Ethiopia
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2023, 07:07:41 AM »

Yes, my 12M QSO is in the new log upload.  I've now worked them on four bands and four modes!
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Re: ET3AA - Ethiopia
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2023, 09:15:41 AM »

Need it on 160M and digital. They're saying the noise is too much on the low bands, but are putting up receive antennas. The lowest band I see them spotted on is 30M, well actually 60M. They're making some European stations happy with 6M, fat chance of that here. Don't go home ET.
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Re: ET3AA - Ethiopia
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2023, 12:02:11 PM »

The lowest band I see them spotted on is 30M, well actually 60M.
They had a reasonable 60m signal last night with dozens of stateside callers, but very few made it through. Apparently the noise on 60m there is s9+ so not surprisingly I had no luck making it through. Once they switched to 30m FT8 it was a quick and easy QSO for a new digital country though.

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Re: ET3AA - Ethiopia
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2023, 04:59:44 PM »

A team consisting of EY8MM, K4ZW, and W9XY is currently active as ET3AA through January 21st. They are battling local noise but seem to be making progress in mitigating it. They are reasonably strong on 30m CW at the moment with a large pileup.

It took several hours of off-and-on calling to bust the pileup, but I finally worked them at 2355z for my first ATNO of 2023  ;D That is #275 worked for me.

73,
Mason - KM4SII

At 270 to 275 new countries came much slower.  At least that's how I found it.

I worked them on 10 FT8 a few days ago with 75 watts to my yagi and a little while ago I was calling them on 20 FT8 with a kW for an hour but I couldn't break the pileup.  I went to eat and when I came back about a half hour later I worked them on my 2nd call using 75 watts.  :o  Go figure!

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Chris  NU1O

PS The spots say F/H but I didn't use F/H.

How long you been hamming now, Mason?  It seems like you just started a few months ago.  You've worked 275 in a short period of time unless my memory is way off.
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KM4SII

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Re: ET3AA - Ethiopia
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2023, 05:20:28 PM »

PS The spots say F/H but I didn't use F/H.
When I worked them on 30 and 20m FT8, I used F/H both times and was successful.

How long you been hamming now, Mason?  It seems like you just started a few months ago.  You've worked 275 in a short period of time unless my memory is way off.

As for how long I have been hamming, I just checked my logbook and it is showing my first HF QSO as being on 7/30/2016, so it has been about 6.5 years now. I do agree that it certainly does not feel like it has been anywhere near that long  :)

At 270 to 275 new countries came much slower.  At least that's how I found it.
Things are definitely starting to slow down, but I still have a few opportunities to work some more ATNOs this year with 3Y, 3B7, and CY0 coming up. Plus, there are a few routinely active DXCCs that have continued to elude me. The most common entities I have yet to work are 3W, V8, XW, 9Q, XU, and XX9. Most of those have remained elusive because 100w and a wire generally just hasn't been enough to make it into that part of the world with the way solar conditions have been the past few years.
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Re: ET3AA - Ethiopia
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2023, 05:42:36 PM »

As far as 3W and V8 go, that's a "sleep" problem in some respects.

V8 is not available every day, but 3W is.  40m, late night for you, is a good bet for both on 40m under just about any solar conditions, especially in the winter.

The trick is, it is best around their sunrise or, possibly, yours.

The same strategy applies to XX9, but that one just isn't on for large swatches of time.  You might have some sort of "alerting" network to see when it is active, because when it is, you usually have a couple of days to snag it.

You can probably get these on 20, also, but for some reason, whether in Minnesota or Arizona, 40 has always been my most reliable friend for the very far east.
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Re: ET3AA - Ethiopia
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2023, 08:57:02 PM »

Just a note. ET3AA does NOT appear to be in Fox mode. Sure you can work him in hound mode, but you don't have to. Plenty of folks have worked him by calling under 1000 hz, and NOT being in hound mode, going to his transmit frequency, but just staying where they are.  Because someone successfully works a station in F/H mode DOES NOT mean the DX is in Fox mode.  So in this case do as you see fit. BUT, BUT, BUT you say he has multiple replies on one line and runs multiple streams, how can you say he is not a FOX?   Easy. He is running MSHV.
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Re: ET3AA - Ethiopia
« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2023, 09:09:41 PM »

BUT, BUT, how can you tell for sure James?  it is very difficult. The recent operation on Crozet made a very brave attempt to solve the problem of identification of mode, by operating MSHV in the ODD time slot. This in my opinion was a GREAT IDEA, because a Fox CANNOT operate in the ODD timeslots Just like a Hound CANNOT operate in the EVEN timeslots.  Problem solved, right? Hurray for our side!.

 ONLY problem was SO many stations could not make hound mode transmit in EVEN mode so  they went nuts and left it in hound mode and just let it transmit on the ODD timeslot. You guys know who you are, and there are a bunch of you. We all saw you.

 How you could transmit for hours without ever hearing the DX station and think you were going somewhere is beyond me. But you did it. Sooooo. The Crozet operator after getting a whole lot of flack changed his MSHV multistream operation back over to EVEN timeslot. Problem solved. Now you can work him in Hound mode and you can post all day on the spotting networks how you worked him Fox and Hound,  so that must be what he is running right. NO. He never worked Fox and Hound,.  Not one single QSO. Of course you can work him in regular mode as that is totally compatible with MSHV.  But you are free to work him either way, and if you want to post erroneous information ,no one is going to stop you.

But bottom line, is if you work as a DX entity using MSHV and you transmit on the EVEN timeslot, then a whole lot of people are going to think you are running Fox and Hound. And if they successfully work you that erroneous conclusion will be reinforced. But we lost a great idea that FT8WW had to  only run MSHV on the ODD timeslot if you ask me.  But then almost no-one did.  >:(
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Re: ET3AA - Ethiopia
« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2023, 01:23:02 AM »

Wait till you get over 300, then it's a waiting game  :'(

Trevor
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Things are definitely starting to slow down,
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Re: ET3AA - Ethiopia
« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2023, 04:02:06 AM »

I have worked them on 10, 12 17 and 20m via the modern mode.  The 10 and 12 are in their log and I am waiting for an upload to confirm the 17 and 20m contacts.

Hoping for some Q's on the legacy modes.


Gino - KE8KMX
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