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My ops today
--- On Sun, 5/8/11, Hiroki Kato wrote:
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Re: The Daves at Henry Coe Park's Backcountry Weekend
Tim Dolan
--- On Fri, 5/6/11, Hiroki Kato wrote:
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Re: The Daves at Henry Coe Park's Backcountry Weekend
Wow. Can't wait to see pics. Hiroki Sent from my iPhone On May 6, 2011, at 7:29 PM, "w6dlf" <daveflack@...> wrote:
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The Daves at Henry Coe Park's Backcountry Weekend
w6dlf
Dave Crocker, W6VYC, and Dave Flack, W6DLF, went to the annual
Backcountry Weekend at Henry Coe Park last week and worked some great DX, including Borneo and Ukraine. Also worked JA3USA on 40 meters around 6:00 am. one morning. We heard him speaking Spanish with a Japanese accent to a South American station. Called him with 40 watts to the vertical and he gave us a 579. He was running a KW to a 4 element 40 meter beam at 100 feet. That helped! It was a nice relaxed rag chew along the grey line. Also worked 20 meters until 10:00 pm one night. I'll try to post some pix to the Photos files. 73, The Daves |
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From your roving reporter
I went to the Electronic Flea market at MIT this morning with my seven year old grandson. This was my second time there, the first being last may. I came back with two door knob capacitors (2.5 kv 600 pf) and a used plier.
Over all this monthly market (April thru Oct) is a pretty miserable affair; they had neither much good old stuff, nor new cheap stuff. A lot of computer junk and stuff unrelated to electronics. But the worst thing about it was that they have a chutzpah to charge you $5 for entry. We often complain how much our DeAnza market has deteriorated, but still it is a class act in comparison.We are lucky. I hope all is well with you. 73, Hiroki AH6CY/W1 Sent from my iPhone |
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Another good day
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Re: 10 meter opening
Tim Dolan
--- On Tue, 4/12/11, Hiroki Kato wrote:
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10 meter opening
You may have noticed a few postings on HFPack group site re 10 meter opening yesterday. Judging from what Bonnie and Alex report, there was indeed a great opening all the way up to 10 ( and even 6) and I happened to be lucky to be there. We can expect great things to come.
QRP rocks! Hiroki AH6CY Sent from my iPad |
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Third consecutive day of ops
You'd think I have gone mad.
The WX suddenly turned out to be the best of spring day, the temp reaching mid-70s, sunny and no wind. After an early dinner I couldn't resist going up to the roof. All the bands were hopping. After working a bunch of Europeans, including northern types like SM and G on 17 I QSYed to 15. I worked LU and P43 (Aruba) and a bunch of stateside w 2.5 watts then suddenly at 17:30 JA7DXX called me and we had a long QSO. It was an incredible experience on two accounts: he was in Miyagi Prefecture quite close to the epicenter of that 9.0 magnitude earthquake; this was my QRP distance record. It's about 7500 miles between Manhattan and his QTH, i.e., 3000 miles per watt! My previous record was between Bodega Headland and Spain, about 6500 miles on 2.5 watts. Although I didn't work 10 meters a guy in Florida I worked on 15 told me 10 was open and he worked JAs this evening. Well, the weather man says the WX will get bad again starting tomorrow, so it will be a while before I can operate next time. Hope all is well with all of you. 73, Hiroki AH6CY Sent from my iPhone |
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Another ops frm NYC
I went up to the rooftop garden again this afternoon about 5pm, my time. Colder than yesterday but band codx was great despite ubiquitous high noise on all bands. I managed Qs on 40, 20, 17 and 15. On 15 I worked IW (Italy). On 17, I worked EA and CT (Portugal). These were all sustained conversations. I did not hear any Northern Europeans today, though. I heard Montana but no west coast or TX, but hearing Montana raised my hope that I will soon be able to hear California.
What is amazing is that all these stations were coming in 58, 59 and 59 plus, rising well above the high noise floor here. Imagine what other stations I am missing buried under the noise level. As soon as possible I am going to take my rig close to the Hudson river somewhat away from all these high rise buildings. The band condx definitely has improved tremendously of late. 73, Hiroki AH6CY Sent from my iPhone |
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NYC ops
Dear Folks back home,
I finally got a chance to operate from the top of my 21-story apartment building this afternoon. The QTH is in TriBeCa, not too far from the 9/11 ground zero, overlooking Brooklyn bridge. WX sunny but cold. Operated for abt an hour 4-5 pm NY time. Not surprisingly there was high noise all over (s8 on 20 and 15, s6 on 17). But 20, 17 and 15 were all open. With 30 wtts amp turned on I bagged EA and ON (Belgium) on 20 and IZ4 (Italy) on 17, all on SSB. Heard many other Europeans. The Italian guy told me that he could read me when I turned off my amp and ran 2.5 watts. He was 59 plus even though he was barefoot. Georgia QSO party was going on so I talked w a number of them. No west coast was heard, however.Thought it was unusual at that hour. Well, needless to say, I was quite happy that my backpack portable did its job on the first try from NYC. Hope you guys are having lots of good spring day outings. 73, Hiroki AH6CY Sent from my iPhone |
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Re: Snowshoe Portable
Thanks, Tim.? Given the difficulty of throwing?a wire?up in a tree, I think I will try a portable magnetic loop for my next venture into the snow.?
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At least it beat my 15-mile "death ski" last year where I carried?10 lbs of radio gear all day and never took it out of my pack...
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Eric? WD6DBM?
From: Tim Dolan To: QRPops@... Sent: Wed, April 6, 2011 7:18:20 PM Subject: Re: [QRPops] Snowshoe Portable ?
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Re: Snowshoe Portable
Tim Dolan
--- On Tue, 4/5/11, eric norris <gliderboy1955@...> wrote:
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Snowshoe Portable
Dear Gang:
Yesterday I went for a hike on snowshoes for the first time.? I had always thought that snowshoes were for chickens afraid to do a face plant while X-C skiing like the rest of us.? I was wrong.? It takes quite a bit of effort, and is a lot of fun.? I, for one, kept my snowshoe tracks out of the X-C ski tracks. I went to Yosemite, and there is so much snow there I literally could not find the trailhead!? So I?took an alternate route.? After plodding for probably two hours, I set up.? I was as not well-prepared as I had hoped.? My original desitination had a place to sit down, but I had to just stop beside the trail on a slope.? Nothing to sit on, not even the ensolite pad I left in my garage.? I just plopped my butt into the snow.? I didn't have long to operate, what with my butt freezing and my snowshoeing partner getting rapidly impatient.? But I did hear a number of stations who were unfortunately engaged in a CW contest.? No?one answered my calls or eventual CQs on 20 and 30 meters.? Sometimes you just get skunked. My antenna was a simple wire thrown in a tree, hooked up to my KX1 and station power was a Buddipole 4S1P A123 battery.? Key was my favorite for portable work, a PortaPaddle.? I'm attaching a picture of my station. 73, Eric WD6DBM |
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Re: New member, Ned, AC6YY
I've worked Ned a number of times on 40 cw when there was no one else on--we live about a mile apart! ?I've also been lucky enough to hear Ned's compelling and moving personal story that involves ham radio. He's a great addition to this group! ?Welcome, Ned.? 73 Eric WD6DBM Sent from my &$@!? iPhone On Mar 28, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Hiroki Kato <hiroki@...> wrote:
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Re: New member, Ned, AC6YY
QRPopsters, I am glad Ned joined the group. I have met him a few times in person and on the air. Hearty welcome. We will have fun together. I arrived in NYC yesterday after driving some 3500 miles over 8 days including 2 days of R & R in Chicago. As soon as we have settled down I will operate QRP from the rooftop garden of the apartment building. My temporary QTH is inTribeca, southeastern part of Manhattan. When WX gets better I might even try to get on air from the ?Central Park. That will prbBly freak out the New Yorkers. Any suggestion re what I should tell those who might ask what I am doing? 73, Hiroki AH6CY ? Sent from my iPhone On Mar 28, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Nick Garner <nwgarner@...> wrote:
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Re: New member, Ned, AC6YY
Ned was one of the first hams I met when I moved to the bay area back in 2007. He's an active member of SCCARA.? It's amazing how much he able to accomplish with QRP from his apartment in Santa Clara.? There's over near his home where he goes on some weekends and sets up a 40' tall mast with a big loop.? He's got some great stories of using ham radio (he's somewhere around 30-40 wpm) to contact his family when he was separated from them for about two years due to eastern European turmoil.
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Nick On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:46 PM, w6dlf <daveflack@...> wrote:
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New member, Ned, AC6YY
w6dlf
I just finished a qso with Ned, AC6YY, working qrp from Santa Clara on
15 meters, PSK31. Turns out he works qrp portable, likes working near the Bay, experiments with wire antennas, uses Jackite poles, SSB, cw, digital, etc. etc. So I invited him to join our merry band and join us on our outings. 72, Southern Dave W6DLF |
Nick Garner