Hi William, I normally can work SM0RWO on 30 meters during the day time from your qth. Maybe you can put a beacon on 10148 so we can check the logs to see if you are getting through. I can hear IS0GRB-3 here very well, but DK4XI-0 is too close to work. At the moment SM0RWO-9 is booming in here with a fish pole antenna (S9+). You should listen in the first 5 minutes of the hour for the beacons. You can check the on-line logs from PI4TUE and SM0RWO to see if your beacons make it (www.pskmail.it). Try a callsign without a "/", and put the /EA5 in the status message... Send us the callsign you use so I can grep the server log :) 73, Rein PA0R > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: "William" <va3udp@xxxxxx> > Gesendet: 05.11.08 13:32:20 > An: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Betreff: [pskmail] Introduction > Hello all, > > I am new to pskmail and have just subscribed to this list and > thought to send this introductory email. I am licensed since > 2004 and my professional background is in unix systems and > network engineering. I am very much looking forward to > contributing to the pskmail community. I have a few thoughts > that I have been discussing in private email with PA0R that > I'll post to the list shortly. > > On a practical note, I have yet to successfully connect to > any of the pskmail servers! Because of space constraints at > my current QTH, I suspect my antenna is not very efficient on > 30m, nevertheless I am currently tuned at 10.148MHz. On 20m, > I have been able to have solid PSK31 QSOs in the neighbourhood > of DK4XI-2 (most recently with an OM in Lahnstein), and can > see the beacons from it, but get no response to my ping or > conect messages. Likewise on 30m at the moment, no responses, > though I just now saw, > > <us><soh>QSL PA0R de DK4XI-0<eot> > > quite clearly... > > 73 de William EA5/VE2WSW > va3udp /@/ rac.ca > > > > > > -- http://pa0r.blogspirit.com