Hi John,
Thanks for being a Fox tonight. I found you right away through your Midwest pileup but you were ESP and would disappear for minutes at a time. By 0300z you were pretty solid, at 0315 Q4 and at the end about 2 S-units above my noise. By then there were four CA hounds calling and I heard Mac get his pelt. Not surprised you couldn¡¯t hear me; my geography to the east isn¡¯t ideal.
72/73,
Brian, K0DTJ
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On Feb 13, 2025, at 20:00, John Laney <k4bai@...> wrote:
?Hello all: I will post a copy of the log tomorrow (Friday) morning. Please let me know by the end of he weekend of any transcription errors and I will submit the final log Monday.
Had been having trouble with the computer and N1MM+, but it ran OK for the 1300Z CWT today. However, tonight I couldn't get it to bring up N1MM+. I couldn't get it to go to the screen where the shut down or shut down and restart commands are. So, I had to power it down, which I don't like to do, but it did come back up OK. Only, it began to update! Took 25 minutes to update and I was considering logging on paper when it was finally ready and it brought up N1MM+. Just had time to start the K4OAQ map program and reconfigure N1MM+ commands before the fox hunt period started. I was all 90 minutes transmitting on 3556.5 kHz. At 0256, I could hear no more callers and went to simplex. I was still tuning up in case someone called up, but no one did. I did catch a GA hound calling simplex before I went simplex and worked him OK. Log shows 61 QSOs plus the two foxes for a score of 63.
There was a lot of QRN from the storm front that just passed through here going south, but, in spite of the QRN, the band seemed pretty good. I had told the other fox, Larry, W2LJ, that we might work K7GO in Mt, but wouldn't have a chance at a CA hound this near the sunspot cycle high. CA is hard from the east coast 2XQRP even at the bottom of a cycle. But, to my amazement, I did have a QSO with Reggie (Mac) K6XR near the end of the hunt. Wow! Now if someone tells me that the Fritz map did show my QSOs tonight, it will have been a near perfect night. I hope I didn't miss anyone who could hear me and called. I did work a few new-to-me hounds and want to welcome them if they are subscribed to this reflector.
Hope we all have fun and good luck in the ARRL DX Contest, CW, this weekend. I am expecting great band conditions! 73/72, John, K4BAI.
TS590SG at 5W output. 125'center fed dipole in an inverted vee configuration with the center up about 35'.
