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K0EVZ

 

All of the sudden at 0305 UTC Doc came booming into Indiana. He is 20
over S9 after being ESP since the start of the hunt.

73

Jeff
K9ESE
Re: Ugly night so far

karl larsen
 

Hi Gary, you called it right. I too am hearing QSO's between the East and West coast based on call sign but that is not certain. But I don't hear any weak signals. Those I hear are real loud. So after an hour of hearing no Fox or any hounds except those calling Doc, I'm about to call it a night. At least I think I got Doc.


glyons1948 wrote:

Not a peep from either Foxii nor any hounds.

Lots of good signals from Caribbean, PA, NY, AZ.
My only comfort at this point is others here are having the same luck I am.

Back at it for the remaining 45 minutes.

Gary/W0GX







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Re: Ugly night so far

 

I just managed to snag a pelt from Doc at about 23 minutes; thought I
heard John's Pack, but never him...

Doc was fading in and out by then.

LL/K3ESE
k0evz

 

Find K0EVZ Fred? Doc sig's coming up nicely now in VE3. I've haven't
heard John W1RT yet.

Chris VA3NR.
Fox hunt

Paul Beringer
 

Worked Doc early on and have been tuning up and down looking for John but
nothing yet in WA. Doc disappeared at about 0230Z here.
Paul NG7Z
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Ugly night so far

glyons1948
 

Not a peep from either Foxii nor any hounds.

Lots of good signals from Caribbean, PA, NY, AZ.

My only comfort at this point is others here are having the same luck
I am.

Back at it for the remaining 45 minutes.

Gary/W0GX
Re: W1RT fox for 11/10

karl larsen
 

Hi Todd, well band conditions must be the pits! If you just hear him 229 then I might not hear him at all this much further out. That can be a problem. I just squeaked a contact I think with the other Fox Doc early on. But signals were so lousy not sure he got my numbers. Will find out later as he is fully gone now. I will let the band settle and look again 7.030 to 7.050 MHz.

Thanks for the info

73 Karl K5DI


Todd Enders wrote:

On Thursday, Nov 10, 2005, at 20:28 US/Central, karl larsen wrote:


Hi John, I am unable to find you in NM. This is odd since I hear
your area real well on 40 and 20 meters. Please just verify your out
there. I will keep searching.

He's out there, but weaker than thrice-steeped tea here... :-(

72/73,

Todd, AG0T





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Re: QFOX-Tonight's Hunt

 

band is very quiet.
Not a FOX heard yet at 31 mintes after the hour, however I could
hear Lloyd K3ESE and K8WDN
calling for the all but too silent FOX here.
Hang in there Fred. Much the same here -- could here hounds calling
Doc -- byt John just popped up here so things nay change -- good luck
Fred!

Doc W5TB
Re: QFOX-Tonight's Hunt

NK6A-Don Minkoff
 

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I hear Lloyd now and then and that is it.? No signals out here in Calif tonight.? Not even the pack of hounds.
Don
NK6A

VE3FAL-Fred wrote:


Well, not looking good from this end tonight, the band is very quiet.
Not a FOX heard yet at 31 mintes after the hour, however I could hear Lloyd K3ESE and K8WDN
calling for the all but too silent FOX here.

Fred
VE3FAL

Re: W1RT fox for 11/10

Todd Enders
 

On Thursday, Nov 10, 2005, at 20:28 US/Central, karl larsen wrote:

Hi John, I am unable to find you in NM. This is odd since I hear
your area real well on 40 and 20 meters. Please just verify your out
there. I will keep searching.
He's out there, but weaker than thrice-steeped tea here... :-(

72/73,

Todd, AG0T
QFOX-Tonight's Hunt

VE3FAL-Fred
 

Well, not looking good from this end tonight, the band is very quiet.
Not a FOX heard yet at 31 mintes after the hour, however I could hear Lloyd K3ESE and K8WDN calling for the all but too silent FOX here.

Fred
VE3FAL
Re: W1RT fox for 11/10

karl larsen
 

Hi John, I am unable to find you in NM. This is odd since I hear your area real well on 40 and 20 meters. Please just verify your out there. I will keep searching.

73 Karl K5DI


John D'Ausilio wrote:

Hi there Hounds, Piggies, Fists, whatever ..

I have the honor of being tomorrow evening's quarry for the 40M QRP
Fox Hunt, and I look forward to enpelting as many of you as possible.
Conditions couldn't possibly be worse than my last fox outing :)

You'll find me somewhere 'tween 7030 and 7050 promptly at 0200Z,
working split as usual. I'll probably be running the TS-940SAT cranked
down to 5W (where it usually is), and the new improved Big-Ass-Loop
(now in the 450' range and a touch higher than before).

See y'all tomorrow!
de john/w1rt
delaplane (near DC) VA



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Re: Contest practice

Neal Enault
 

It sounds like they have created another contest under the guise of
practice. These guys are insatiable.

Neal WA6OCP

--- Larry <Makos327@...> wrote:

I guess we can look forward to more contest practice again tonight
during the Hunt.

I grabbed the following off the CQ-Contest e-mail reflector today:

Message: 2
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:54:17 -0800
From: Ken Keeler <kenkeeler@...>
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Thursday NCCC Practice, 0330 to 04Z - NS
rules!
To: nccc@..., cq-contest@...
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20051109184736.01529b70@...>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed

NCCC THURSDAY NIGHT MADNESS continues this week,
Nov. 10 local date

--30 mins 0330-04Z (all NCCC practice sessions will be the same
LOCAL
time, year round, UFN)
-- Start 0330Z (1930 PT, 2030 MT, 2130 CT 2230 ET)

-- 100 watts, dupes allowed after 1 intervening Q on the same band
(back-to-back on different bands are OK, 1 KHz QSY.
Otherwise it's like the NCJ NA CW Sprint
(see )

-- 14040, 7040, 3540, 1810. If the MUF shuts down 20/40m, 160 can
take up
the slack.

-- Consider using slower speeds when CQing in the first 15 minutes.

-- Report scores near 3830 LSB after the practice, at 0400Z (8 PM
PST) on
the weekly NCCC
contest net). Real-time score collecting, bragging, excuses, antenna
checks,
advice...or report score/comments on 3830 reflector

Next week, Sweepstakes SSB practice Nov. 17,18. CQWW CW practice on
Nov. 24.

N6RO Oh well, good luck guys! Maybe we should consider going back to
Tuesday?

73 de Larry W2LJ
Contest practice

Larry
 

I guess we can look forward to more contest practice again tonight during the Hunt.

I grabbed the following off the CQ-Contest e-mail reflector today:

Message: 2
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:54:17 -0800
From: Ken Keeler 
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Thursday  NCCC Practice, 0330 to 04Z - NS rules!
To: nccc@..., cq-contest@...
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20051109184736.01529b70@...>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed

NCCC THURSDAY  NIGHT MADNESS continues this week,
Nov. 10 local date

--30 mins   0330-04Z  (all NCCC practice sessions will be the same LOCAL 
time, year round, UFN)
-- Start 0330Z (1930 PT, 2030 MT, 2130 CT 2230 ET)

-- 100 watts, dupes allowed after 1 intervening Q on the same band 
(back-to-back on different bands are OK, 1 KHz QSY.
Otherwise it's like the NCJ NA CW Sprint
(see http://www.ncjweb.com/sprintrules.php )

-- 14040, 7040, 3540, 1810.  If the MUF shuts down 20/40m, 160 can take up 
the slack.

-- Consider using slower speeds when CQing in the first 15 minutes.

-- Report scores near 3830 LSB after the practice,  at 0400Z (8 PM PST) on 
the weekly NCCC
contest net).  Real-time score collecting, bragging, excuses, antenna checks,
advice...or report score/comments on 3830 reflector

Next week,  Sweepstakes SSB practice Nov. 17,18. CQWW CW practice on Nov. 24.

N6RO
Oh well, good luck guys!? Maybe we should consider going back to Tuesday?

73 de Larry W2LJ
Re: [QRP-L] FOX: propagation tests (long)

W.D. (Doc) Lindsey
 

Gary:

Several have theorised that it *was* in fact related to large (= read
"commercial") aircraft coming into land in the Twin Cities. Sure makes
sense to me. Here for instance is what Scott N0AR wrote overnite:

Hey Doc -
I had the same thing happen to me, N0UR is only 20 miles away.
I was listening and heard a jet plane taking the E/W route to MSP. (They
do this when traffic is heavy) Anyway Jim suddenly went to a solid S9, I
made the qso and within 25 seconds he was back in the noise and gone for
good. Bottom line is that there is always hope for a contact, you just
have to be ready for your opportunity!

GL - Scott N0AR Vadnais Hgts, MN<

These large aircraft include the huge widebodies from all around the world
which fly to the Minneapolis airport which is a hub for _____________
Airline. Sometimes traffic is quite heavy as they are sequenced to the
airport, plus these big planes land slowly anyway. So it certainly makes
sense that they could/would offer a 20-25 second "target" when I could have
worked Jim, ie a reflector between N0UR in MSP and K0UR in Rochester.

73,
--Doc/K0EVZ


----- Original Message -----
From:
To: dock0evz@...
Sent: 11/10/2005 9:47:31 AM
Subject: Re: [QRP-L] FOX: propagation tests (long)


-----Original Message-----
From: W.D. (Doc) Lindsey <dock0evz@...>
To: qfox <qfox@...>; QRP-L Reflector <qrp-l@...>
Sent: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:07:17 -0700
Subject: [QRP-L] FOX: propagation tests (long)

And SUDDENLY....out of all that white noise here came Jim calling
calling a huge CQ FOX at about 25 over S-9! It only lasted about 20-25
seconds! I nearly fell off the chair, it was so loud and so unexpected.
Luckily he heard me during that short burst, and we made contact. And I
was in the log. Chuck Adams happened to come to Minneapolis a week or two
later, and Jim and I asked him about this curious incident. And he
confirmed that while rare, this kind of thing did indeed occasionally
occur
on 40 Metres, which is one reason he had decided to put the HF FOX Hunt on
40 Metres in the first place!
Many tks for that post Doc. Many of us have just given up attempting
to work FOXii that are located in surrounding States (being just too
close for long skip propagation conditions). It definitely is a hard
nut to crack. I think your suggestion is the correct one .. keep
monitoring the frequency for that "quick burst" from the FOX. I know
it's boring just listening to noise for a long period of time. However,
if you wish to be successful, this must be done.

Here's my question Doc. Chuck and others agree that this propagation
oddity does occur on rare occasions. What we're not being told is ...
what allows it to happen??? This curiosity is driving me nuts. HI
I believe aircraft being in the right place can briefly reflect a VHF
signal (burst) on occasion but our focus is what happens on HF.
Interesting question eh? Take care my friend.

72, Gary -K8KFJ-
West Virginia
Re: [QRP-L] FOX: propagation tests (long)

W.D. (Doc) Lindsey
 

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Gary:
?
Several have theorised that it *was* in fact related to large (= read "commercial") aircraft coming into land in the Twin Cities.? Sure makes sense to me.? Here for instance is what Scott N0AR wrote overnite:
?
>Hey Doc -
I had the same thing happen to me, N0UR is only 20 miles away.
I was listening and heard a jet plane taking the E/W route to MSP. (They
do this when traffic is heavy) Anyway Jim suddenly went to a solid S9, I
made the qso and within 25 seconds he was back in the noise and gone for
good. Bottom line is that there is always hope for a contact, you just
have to be ready for your opportunity!
?
GL - Scott N0AR Vadnais Hgts, MN<
?
These large aircraft include the huge widebodies from all around the world which fly to?the Minneapolis airport which is a hub for _____________ Airline.??Sometimes traffic is quite heavy as they are sequenced to the airport, plus these big planes land slowly anyway.? So it certainly makes sense that they?could/would offer a 20-25 second "target"?when I could have worked?Jim, ie a reflector between N0UR in MSP and K0UR in Rochester.?
?
73,
--Doc/K0EVZ?
?
?

----- Original Message -----
From:
Sent: 11/10/2005 9:47:31 AM
Subject: Re: [QRP-L] FOX: propagation tests (long)

?-----Original Message-----
From: W.D. (Doc) Lindsey <dock0evz@earthlink.net>
To: qfox <qfox@yahoogroups.com>; QRP-L Reflector <qrp-l@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:07:17 -0700
Subject: [QRP-L] FOX: propagation tests (long)

> And SUDDENLY....out of all that white noise here came Jim calling
> calling a huge CQ FOX at about 25 over S-9!? It only lasted about 20-25
> seconds!? I nearly fell off the chair, it was so loud and so unexpected.
> Luckily he heard me during that short burst, and we made contact.? And I
> was in the log.? Chuck Adams happened to come to Minneapolis a week or two
> later, and Jim and I asked him about this curious incident.? And he
> confirmed that while rare, this kind of thing did indeed occasionally occur
> on 40 Metres, which is one reason he had decided to put the HF FOX Hunt on
> 40 Metres in the first place!
?
Many tks for that post Doc.? Many of us have just given up attempting
to work FOXii that are located in surrounding States (being just too
close for long skip propagation conditions).? It definitely is a hard
nut to crack.? I think your suggestion is the correct one .. keep
monitoring the frequency for that "quick burst" from the FOX.? I know
it's boring just listening to noise for a long period of time.? However,
if you wish to be successful, this must be done.
?
Here's my question Doc.? Chuck and others agree that this propagation
oddity does occur on rare occasions.? What we're not being told is ...
what allows it to happen???? This curiosity is driving me nuts.? HI
I believe aircraft being in the right place can briefly reflect a VHF
signal (burst) on occasion but our focus is what happens on HF.
Interesting question eh?? Take care my friend.
?
72, Gary? -K8KFJ-
West Virginia
Re: FOX: propagation tests (long)

Scott Holisky
 

Hey Doc -
I had the same thing happen to me, N0UR is only 20 miles away.
I was listening and heard a jet plane taking the E/W route to MSP. (They
do this when traffic is heavy) Anyway Jim suddenly went to a solid S9, I
made the qso and within 25 seconds he was back in the noise and gone for
good. Bottom line is that there is always hope for a contact, you just
have to be ready for your opportunity!

GL - Scott N0AR Vadnais Hgts, MN



>>And SUDDENLY....out of all that white noise here came Jim calling a
huge CQ FOX at about 25 over S-9! It only lasted about 20-25 seconds!
I nearly fell off the chair, it was so loud and so unexpected.
Re: FOX = K0EVZ for Thur Evening!

wb8wtu
 

John,

I didn't read this.........honest.

73,
dennis
wb8wtu

--- In qfox@..., John D'Ausilio <jdausilio@g...> wrote:

I hate yahoo groups!

Nothing for you to see here .. just move along :)

de w1rt/John

On 11/9/05, John D'Ausilio <jdausilio@g...> wrote:
Heya Doc .. I'll probably work pretty high up the band, above 045
somewhere. That OK wid u?

de w1rt/John
Re: FOX = K0EVZ for Thur Evening!

 

I hate yahoo groups!

Nothing for you to see here .. just move along :)

de w1rt/John

On 11/9/05, John D'Ausilio <jdausilio@...> wrote:
Heya Doc .. I'll probably work pretty high up the band, above 045
somewhere. That OK wid u?

de w1rt/John

On 11/9/05, W.D. (Doc) Lindsey <dock0evz@...> wrote:
Gang:

I have the honour of being your other FOX tomorrow evening! It has been a
while since I have served as one of the Furry Critters, and I am really
looking forward to it.
FOX: propagation tests (long)

W.D. (Doc) Lindsey
 

Gang:

Earlier this evening (At ~0000 and ~0045) several QRPers conducted informal
40 Metre propagation tests. We wanted to see whether stations close to
central New Mexico will be able to contact FOX K0EVZ tomorrow evening.
This is a pretty tough distance, as we all know. I never could make it
work last year. BUT good news = we did get it done tonight! Signals were
very QSB and not super-strong, but they were fairly solid and good enough
to log as a QSO.

Thomas AC7A in AZ got through at 1955, with an RST of 439. If conditions
are the same tomorrow evening, he will for-sure bag a pelt. Likewise, Karl
K5DI in southern NM at about 1720 contacted K0EVZ with an RST of 339.
Signals were very, very QSB, but again good enough for a loggable QSO.

So......don't give up, no matter where you are located. Several years ago,
I lived in Rochester, MN. The FOX one evening was Jim N0UR, living in
Minneapolis, MN, about 79 miles slightly northwest. Technically it would
be impossible to work him, either via skip or ground-wave. But I kept
listening, just in case. My rig at the time was a Ten-Tec Argo 556. All I
could hear for the first hour and 57 minutes of endless white noise. It
was, to me, nerve-wracking--mainly because I actually did not know exactly
where Jim was transmitting. And after a while I could no longer hear any
callers. But I kept monitoring the reflector, reading the various
postings. And SUDDENLY....out of all that white noise here came Jim
calling a huge CQ FOX at about 25 over S-9! It only lasted about 20-25
seconds! I nearly fell off the chair, it was so loud and so unexpected.
Luckily he heard me during that short burst, and we made contact. And I
was in the log. Chuck Adams happened to come to Minneapolis a week or two
later, and Jim and I asked him about this curious incident. And he
confirmed that while rare, this kind of thing did indeed occasionally occur
on 40 Metres, which is one reason he had decided to put the HF FOX Hunt on
40 Metres in the first place!

Good luck tomorrow, everyone. And please wish me good luck, also. I have
been Herr FOXxe several times, though it has been a while. I deliberately
took myself out of the active lineup several seasons, to leave space for
others to have a chance. This season I applied, and was chosen! I am
excited to be back. It will be fun, but I am kinda nervous a bit. Hope I
am up to the task. I want to work everybody in the pack.

I will be listening UP. Always UP. Please do not call directly on top of
where I am transmitting. Leave that frequence open, so folks can hear what
I am sending. Thanks.

CU and 73,
--Doc/K0EVZ Poppa FOX


W.D. (Doc) Lindsey
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