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THANKS AGAIN FOR THE TIPS ON 10 METER PROPAGATION TO JAPAN

 

Your JA propagation tips/advice paid off! I just worked JM7OLW, Suke, in Fukushima, Japan at 2136z on 28.019 Mhz. I checked the club roster, but unfortunately Suke wasn't on it. The tips about 2100-2300z being the best times to try were dead on! Suke was a very strong 599 signal, but his?9 element monobander?for 10 meters @ 30 meters (98.2 feet) high with a 16.7 meter (54.7 feet) long boom helped tremendously for both of us! I received a 449 report off my Solarcon A-99 vertical at 9.14 meters (30 feet) high so it did fairly well for an old 11 meter band CB antenna. I'm pretty sure Suke was using a keyboard because I had a tough time matching his 28 wpm with my Bencher paddle. I had to do a few dit, dit, dit, dit dit, dit, dits and correct myself. Thanks again guys!?

Very 73,
Cliff, KU4GW
A1 CW Club Membership # 3440
 

Thank you for your feedback and congratulations for your achievement Cliff!

The Japan International DX Contest (JIDX), 2023-04-08 0700 UTC to 2023-04-09 1300 UTC,
may be a good opportunity to get some more JA stations into the log.



CU 73
Tom
 

Thanks Tom! Although I've been a ham for 26 years now I never have really gotten into chasing DX very much or contesting other than a 2 or 4 hour long CW Sprint until just recently which is why I'm such a greenhorn at it. I've always mostly had ragchew QSOs over the years, that and participating with the Feld Hell/Hellschreiber Club. I helped man the Feld Hell Club's W8H Special Event Station from the Dayton Hamvention in 2013 when it was still at Hara Arena. We've got over 7,300 members now and my membership number is 62 which shows how long I've been into Feld Hell. I enjoy it because it's a great digital mode for ragchewing, especially with regular Hellschreiber mode that has only a 23% transmit duty cycle so it's a lot easier on the rig's finals than many other digital modes with long transmit duty cycles. The mode the club uses for our weekly 30, 40, and 80 meter band nets uses FSKH-105 Hell (Frequency Shift Keying at 105 baud) mode which has a transmit duty cycle of around 80%. We found out? near the bottom of solar cycle 24 that FSKH-105 just works much better then Hellschreiber when the propagation is terrible..
I also like keeping the old mode alive that's been around since 1930. German inventor and engineer Rudolph Hell actually invented the mode in 1929!? Anyway Tom, thank you for the information on the?Japan International DX Contest (JIDX) contest!

Very 73 de?Cliff, KU4GW
 

Hi Cliff

Glad that tip helped. JA's on 10 are really strong here at that time.

DXing is fun. I have been at it since 2004 pretty casually and have 297 countries confirmed all LOTW.?? There are many fine JA stations on 10M there in the log!? Try and get on during contest time and see how you do... its a great time of the sunspot cycle to work the high bands.

John K5MO
 

Thank you Cliff,

I never tried "Hell" but I will try it soon and I will try to get you and others in this mode.

CU 73
Tom
 

Cliff-san,

The same here, 1st time to know about the Feld Hell or the Hellschreiber which seems very gentle digimode to the radio final. Thank you for the INFO.

Tom-san, also TNX for your reminder of JIDX. I¡¯m not much a contestant but will QRV at the JIDX to say hello to my CW friends.

73,
// HIRO, JJ1FXF
 

Hi Cliff et al,
As same as Hiro,I've never know "Feld Hell".
It sounds interesting. I'd like to search about it later.
Thanks for the info Cliff-san!

BTW
My remote station at Hakone has been down since last week.
I'm going to visit the station next Sunday.
So, I'm absent on the bands for a couple of weeks.

73+88
Atsu, JE1TRV(home)/JS2AHG(remote)

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