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| The view from JY5HX's beam |
Just a short time later on 20m's TM27UFT out of France had a pileup and I jumped in to see what would happen with my 2 watts. This again is another special event station out of France. It was for the Union Francaise des Telegraphistes 27th meeting. I made contact after 4 tries and because of the pileup he had it was strictly business and off to the next station in the Q.
The big event of the day for me was seeing a spot on the cluster for JY5HX out of Jordan. If I made this contact it was another DXCC for me and a first for contacting anyone in the middle East. So this was serous business I cranked the K3 up to 5 watts as my Jubilee DXCC is going to be all QRP. I double clicked on the spot and to my surprise I could hear JY5HX from just above the noise level to about an S3 at times. There have been many times when I see a spot on the cluster and head there to just hear noise so this sure was a surprise. On went the headphones and so began my what I thought to be a long round of calling into the pileup. Funny thing was there was no pileup and the next funny but great thing was he came back to me on my third call to him. Now JY5HX is in the log book and that brings my QRP DXCC count up to 68! Using 5 watts along with my attic dipole for this contact it turned out to be 1172 miles per watt.
8 comments:
Well done, Mike. There were quite a few Titanic special event stations operating. Glad you were able to snag your own.
As a VE operator, wasn't there any station on the air from NS? Certainly an important place in Titanic history, perhaps the most. I've seen photos of the cemetery there. Very touching.
73 Dick
Good afternoon Dick, yes there is a Titanic special event station at Cape Race Newfoundland V01MCE and VE0MGY. Cape Race is the closest land mark to the wreckage of the Titanic. They were on the air yesterday and are on today I will be looking for them on the DXcluster.
Have a great day Dick.
Congrats with your QSO into the middle east. Not easy with just 5W and indoor antenna. 73, Bas
Good afternoon Bas, I was very surprised that I was even able to hear him. Most to the times I go to the spot to just hear white noise. This time he was there and no pileup.
The Middle East with 5 watts and an indoor antenna - to a station that probably had several calling him, all of whom were probably using outdoor antennas and higher power. And you worked him anyway.
This is the magic of radio that keeps me interested decade after decade!
Good evening John, yes when you hit a bulls eye like the Middle East on 5 watts it sure does count as magic.
Hello Mike, Congrats on the QSO with JY5HX. Well done with more than 1000 MPW. I think that activity is more important than sun spots. 73, Bert
Yes Bert in the past I used to get caught up in following the propagation like it was the be all and end all. I have now found that it is just one opinion of how the bands are.
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