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WB8VLC

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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #75 on: March 02, 2023, 08:55:58 AM »

If conditions are bad over the pole, it makes sense for us with easier paths to make a lot of Qs now, rather than waiting until later.
Hopefully conditions will be 20 dB later on for the West Coast guys. 
With FT8 I could just decode JAs that would be pounding in on 10M if the conditions were better.

The south pole path works better for us west coast hams hunting him.

long path on 20 meters worked great at catching him last night in the Pacific Northwest whereas short path was zip.

After my contact I played around measuring long and short paths for an hour and he was only readable on the long path in Oregon.

The same south pole long path worked for FT8WW on 20 cw and 20 FT8 whereas he was not readable on the shorth path during either contact.
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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #76 on: March 02, 2023, 11:07:20 AM »

The 10m CW pileup has calmed down considerably and I was able to make it through without too much trouble after having no luck earlier today. Still no joy on 80m, although that is no surprise given that 80m is probably the band on which I am most "DX challeneged" ;D

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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #77 on: March 02, 2023, 11:10:45 AM »

The south pole path works better for us west coast hams hunting him.

Interesting and I will check that for 15.  The drought finally broke this morning here in the PNW and I was able to work them on 10 CW, 12 SSB, and 17 FT8, all short path.  Would like 15 but can't hear them there.  Many locals worked them on 20 around sunrise, long path, I think.  Maybe I will try that tomorrow.
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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #78 on: March 02, 2023, 11:17:38 AM »

1 call on 15 ssb earlier. 
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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #79 on: March 02, 2023, 01:06:10 PM »

Got them on 15ssb a few hours ago. That wraps up 20-10m that I needed. I did hear them nice and loud on 10 cw but since I worked em' on 10 ft8 I stayed out of the pileup. I don't need 80-30 (worked those bands the last expedition). I'll listen on 160 for them.. I know I've worked / heard ZS on my laughably-too-short-for-160 antenna so it *could* be possible.
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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #80 on: March 02, 2023, 03:14:22 PM »

They are as strong as s7 right now on 80m CW using my simple 80m dipole. However, with the DQRM and what I am sure is a rather weak signal on their end, no luck just yet. It is encouraging to hear them with such a good signal though!
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WB8VLC

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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #81 on: March 02, 2023, 08:07:42 PM »

The south pole path works better for us west coast hams hunting him.

Interesting and I will check that for 15.  The drought finally broke this morning here in the PNW and I was able to work them on 10 CW, 12 SSB, and 17 FT8, all short path.  Would like 15 but can't hear them there.  Many locals worked them on 20 around sunrise, long path, I think.  Maybe I will try that tomorrow.

that was torture seeing them on 10 cw and hearing them on 10 cw while at work with no transmit capabilities just istening on my sdrplay rsp1 and a wire dipole on the roof at work.

Work is torture for working rare dx,
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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #82 on: March 03, 2023, 01:01:57 AM »


that was torture seeing them on 10 cw and hearing them on 10 cw while at work with no transmit capabilities just istening on my sdrplay rsp1 and a wire dipole on the roof at work.

Work is torture for working rare dx,


I can imagine your pain.  ;D ;D ;D

Consider remoting your home station so you can access it from your work.

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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #83 on: March 03, 2023, 09:58:06 AM »

Curious what's changed in the last couple of days. The SSB ops' rates are terrible now (e.g. 12m YL op working one or two a minute, 90% EU), and the 20m CW op working JA/EU but almost no NAs. They were super-fast ops and easy to work for most of the week and knew how to look for NA openings. Now it's strictly an EU-fest, at least on those two bands.
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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #84 on: March 03, 2023, 10:00:26 AM »

Curious what's changed in the last couple of days.

Well, whatever it is, they've become much more workable out here on the west coast.  Yesterday I went from total shut-out to 5 bands 3 modes, and probably could've gotten a sixth band if I hadn't been out having a drink or two instead.
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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #85 on: March 04, 2023, 10:39:08 AM »

Massive signal on 18.150 ssb at 1835 GMT. Good op. :)
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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #86 on: March 07, 2023, 11:09:48 AM »

Finally got around to making an SSB QSO with them. Good signal on 10m SSB and they are not too busy at the moment it seems. So that takes care of both CW and FT8 on all bands 40-10m, plus a token SSB QSO to take care of 3B7 on all modes.

I was really hoping for an 80m QSO, but I was not able to pull that off, unfortunately. But hey, that leaves something to chase during the next 3B7 DXpedition  ;D

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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #87 on: March 07, 2023, 04:01:27 PM »

I was checking my Qs in Clublog and I noticed it showed a Q on 40m FT8. Only problem is I never even called them on 40m so how did I get in their log?
At least one local has noticed similar in his log, who else?
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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #88 on: March 08, 2023, 12:16:11 PM »

N5PG...  I bet they don't show up in Log Matching...  Since you worked them 3 times on 30, it's probably a log glitch that copied those same three contacts to 40 meters, too.  Interesting.
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N5PG

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Re: 3B7M - Agalega & St. Brandon
« Reply #89 on: March 08, 2023, 01:55:38 PM »

Three on 30m ? OK, see that now - had to click on Request QSL.
Jeez, what a shambles, Clublog shows:

3x40m FT8 Qs
3x30m FT8 Qs
1x20m FT8 Q
1x17m CW Q
1x12m FT8 Q
2x10m FT8 Q

MY Log shows:

None on 40m
1x30m
1x10m
1x17m cw
1x20m
1x12m, all FT8 except 17m.

So can't explain that. Guess I'll send a note to QSL Mgr.
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P.S. I'm using wsjt-x v2.5.4
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