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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #45 on: February 27, 2023, 02:59:43 PM »

They have a great signal here on 40m CW before sunset. Worked without too much difficulty between the EUs  :)

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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #46 on: February 27, 2023, 03:06:12 PM »

They have a great signal here on 40m CW before sunset. Worked without too much difficulty between the EUs  :)

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Are you using an amp, Mason?
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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #47 on: February 27, 2023, 03:16:04 PM »

They have a great signal here on 40m CW before sunset. Worked without too much difficulty between the EUs  :)

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Mason - KM4SII

Are you using an amp, Mason?
I am not. All of my QSOs are made with 100w or less.
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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #48 on: February 28, 2023, 09:30:56 AM »

I would be able to hear them fairly well on 80m if there was not some sort of continuous wideband QRM on their frequency. Perhaps radar? I am not entirely sure, but I am only getting intermittent decodes because of it, unfortunately. It seems to be making it completely impossible for EU to work them on 80m FT8.

I had a listen last night, there is some horrible wide QRM S9 with me around their chose 80m freq of 3.580, it's there all the time so not holding out much hope of an 80m QSO unless they move or I manage to get them on CW.
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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #49 on: February 28, 2023, 11:32:21 AM »

3B7M, a guy this time, was on 28.500 around 1900Z with a great signal. Heard him say he was going to 10M FT8, so tuned to 28.091. Wasn't long before I saw a strong signal in the waterfall, and figured it was a statesider. Wrong... It was him... Dang what a signal...



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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #50 on: February 28, 2023, 11:39:51 AM »

He is plus 13 here. 
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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #51 on: February 28, 2023, 12:33:10 PM »

3B7M, a guy this time, was on 28.500 around 1900Z with a great signal. Heard him say he was going to 10M FT8, so tuned to 28.091. Wasn't long before I saw a strong signal in the waterfall, and figured it was a statesider. Wrong... It was him... Dang what a signal...


My 10m alarms were going off since about noon for them, but they didn't come out of the noise until just before 2pm. I worked them at 1:59, just before my wife had to comandeer the room for a work conference call. Came back later and they were OK on FT8, but not +17 by a long shot. I think they were about +00 to -05 on average. That was DXCC entity #320 on 10m for me. Lots of guys in the South were working them on 10 for hours before the band opened up here.
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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #52 on: February 28, 2023, 02:46:41 PM »

They have a great signal on 15M CW.  Op is really good running the pileup
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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #53 on: February 28, 2023, 03:01:48 PM »

They have a great signal on 15M CW.  Op is really good running the pileup

I'm in a pileup for J8NY on 21.023.  Was trying to figure out why it was so huge. It looks like 3B7M spotted on same frequency.  Not sure if they are both there, or a bunch of people think they got 3B7 and they got J8...

Still nothing from the real 3B7M here.
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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #54 on: February 28, 2023, 03:40:12 PM »

Despite spots all around me, I had no copy on their 10m station. I did work them on 12m CW but was having some keying issues so I am not fully confident that they ended up getting my call correctly. Got a report from them on 15m FT8, but they suddenly QRTed before I could get a RR73, so that QSO is also uncertain. Will have to wait for the next log upload to see.

I do know my 40m FT8 QSO is good though... they just started and have a nice strong signal. Got a +00 report from them while running 80w and a wire, so the path looks good! Also a decent signal on 80m CW. Currently waiting for them to come back after the op said to QRX.

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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #55 on: February 28, 2023, 03:57:01 PM »

Despite spots all around me, I had no copy on their 10m station. I did work them on 12m CW but was having some keying issues so I am not fully confident that they ended up getting my call correctly. Got a report from them on 15m FT8, but they suddenly QRTed before I could get a RR73, so that QSO is also uncertain. Will have to wait for the next log upload to see.

I do know my 40m FT8 QSO is good though... they just started and have a nice strong signal. Got a +00 report from them while running 80w and a wire, so the path looks good! Also a decent signal on 80m CW. Currently waiting for them to come back after the op said to QRX.

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Mason - KM4SII

I only printed them a couple times on 15 this afternoon but one of them was your 73 Mason. I think you are good on that one.

73 Rich KB8GAE
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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #56 on: February 28, 2023, 04:02:56 PM »

I only printed them a couple times on 15 this afternoon but one of them was your 73 Mason. I think you are good on that one.

73 Rich KB8GAE
Fantastic! I suppose they must have switched to multiple streams on the cycle that my RR73 was sent, causing me to lose them. They were pretty weak single-stream, so that might explain why I stopped copying them. Thank you for the report.

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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #57 on: March 01, 2023, 04:41:03 AM »

New log update on clublog!  My CW 80, 40,  30,  20,  15,  12 contacts are good, as is 10 SSB.  Did not bother trying FT8.  Just need 17 now.  Sure wish the 3Y0 guys had better conditions.
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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #58 on: March 01, 2023, 05:34:42 AM »

Checked Clublog and all my Q's are there.  ;D

They posted some news... generators overheating (even had a cable burn out) and regular T-storms are causing the power interruptions. Also they have changed their 80m FT8 frequency to 3567 due to some interference.

I copied you calling them on 80m last night, Mason... you were very loud here. (+06)  :)
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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #59 on: March 01, 2023, 08:35:14 AM »

New log update on clublog!  My CW 80, 40,  30,  20,  15,  12 contacts are good, as is 10 SSB.  Did not bother trying FT8.  Just need 17 now.  Sure wish the 3Y0 guys had better conditions.
So much more rewarding when you do the actual work and not the computer program.👍
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