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Re: CY0S Thread
« Reply #15 on: March 21, 2023, 06:39:33 AM »

The /JD1 guy never has a great signal even out here.  I've worked him twice.  Last night on 15 he was ok, but not huge.
CY0S was easy on 12ssb.  30 cw pileup was up 15 and a lot of the callers were following his qrg very well.   I worked him up 10 and was laughing at how many callers were piled up at +3-5.  17 cw was not as hard.  30M ft8 this morning he stopped printing.  Too many Asian countries calling on the wrong time slot wiped his signal out.  It looks like east coast is doing well. 
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« Reply #16 on: March 21, 2023, 11:52:59 AM »

On 12M FT8, the CY0S clock was sometimes far off as much as 8 seconds.  He was copying callers so he must have been looking at previous calls before his clock erred.
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« Reply #17 on: March 21, 2023, 12:34:41 PM »

and the DQRM chased the operator off 15 cw. 

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Re: CY0S Thread
« Reply #18 on: March 21, 2023, 01:39:00 PM »

Is it me, or are these pileups kinda silly given the rarity? I didn't think CY0 was such a coveted entity.
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« Reply #19 on: March 21, 2023, 02:25:42 PM »

On 12M FT8, the CY0S clock was sometimes far off as much as 8 seconds.  He was copying callers so he must have been looking at previous calls before his clock erred.

Yes, I'm seeing that right now as I try to work them on 12m FT8. Their time synch drifts between 0.0 and -5.0s.

I'll hazard a guess that their computer is getting overwhelmed by the number of callers it's trying to decode.
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« Reply #20 on: March 21, 2023, 06:22:23 PM »

Their log is up on ClubLog.     


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KD6KVL

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« Reply #21 on: March 21, 2023, 08:50:43 PM »

Blind luck made me the 12m ssb qso.  Says only 140 or so of them made.  5 slots so far from the poor, suffering 6 land...
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« Reply #22 on: March 22, 2023, 12:31:56 AM »

Getting CY0S in the log.  CW pileups have been reasonable, jammers seem largely discouraged this time.

This is more like it.

I was surprised how many bands I had somehow not covered on this one over the years.  Making up for it now.
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« Reply #23 on: March 22, 2023, 04:49:26 AM »

I've never liked the term "Deliberate QRM" for happens on the DX stations xmit frequency.

There are jammers, mistaken simplex senders, and cops/police that take turns interfering and only the first ones are truly deliberate QRMers and they are often the easiest to filter out!

Some of this will always be there, some could be reduced. DX stations could ID more and include UP every time. The CY0S ops I've listened to have been pretty good. Ops could learn how to make sure they are on split correctly before xmitting, and make sure they go split after clicking on a spot before xmitting.

I made a suggestion to the RBN skimmer group that they improve the skimmer software to detect "UP" and indicate on spots UP - too many people just click and xmit. That apparently is not seen as doable.

Many of the police seem to have problems sending UP correctly and efficiently, maybe CW Ops could have a DXpedition Police course on sending the letter P, since that often seems to turn into L or Q and then a long series of dits...

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Re: CY0S Thread
« Reply #24 on: March 22, 2023, 05:48:57 AM »

Is it me, or are these pileups kinda silly given the rarity? I didn't think CY0 was such a coveted entity.
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here in vk it was ATNO for me and i have 311 worked 306 confirmed im in the log for 17m cw and managed 30m,20m and 12m ft8 they were very strong on 12m. 10m would have been great as i worked about 35  around 00:00 utc on 10m ssb many from the east coast even the endfed halfwave and 100w brigade were 55 3 atno's in the last 4 months possibly more
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Re: CY0S Thread
« Reply #25 on: March 22, 2023, 07:00:09 AM »

This morning on 20 FT8 I'm getting little to no print.  It seems there are a lot of callers, but no copy out here.
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« Reply #26 on: March 22, 2023, 07:33:43 AM »

I was the 2nd op to work them on 80M CW after the OP took a short break after European sunrise.  While listening afterwards I heard  him CQing a lot at 3M and I think he worked on G station in Europe.  Good opportunity for stateside to work them on CW if you are up during the wee hours of the morning.
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« Reply #27 on: March 22, 2023, 09:16:32 AM »

I was the 2nd op to work them on 80M CW after the OP took a short break after European sunrise.  While listening afterwards I heard  him CQing a lot at 3M and I think he worked on G station in Europe.  Good opportunity for stateside to work them on CW if you are up during the wee hours of the morning.
They were super easy earlier, too. I was out at a Jeep Club meeting and when I got home I saw them spotted on both 160 and 80. With a few seconds of listening I worked them with one call on both bands quite handily. They had a huge signal on 160, too!
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« Reply #28 on: March 22, 2023, 10:48:21 AM »

I worked them on 40 cw yesterday, but no qsos in the log for 40 meters, was it a pirate?
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« Reply #29 on: March 22, 2023, 11:18:23 AM »

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Is it me, or are these pileups kinda silly given the rarity? I didn't think CY0 was such a coveted entity.

Not really.  It is not likely to be an ATNO for many NA stations.

But, there are a lot of bands to be filled.  It is perhaps not for nothing that they commenced operations on 17m and 30m, which according to Clublog are (comparatively) less activated.

Moreover, it is 49th on the world-wide need list.  Just because it is easy for us doesn't make it easy for everyone.

Suggestion:  Go do a "rent a shack" sometime.  Lots of Caribbean islands have contesting stations that can be rented for a week or so.   Just show up and operate (maybe get a license, maybe just run CEPT).  You can be the DX yourself with minimal fuss.

I guarantee that there will be pileups, hefty ones, especially on the WARC bands or 80/160.  6m, if they have it, can easily be a feeding frenzy if it is open at all.  But you can even raise a pile on 20.

I expected to find I didn't need much for CY0.  I took a closer look and found out I had a lot of band slots to fill after all.  Shouldn't really be so.  But it is so.  I'm off filling them.
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