[pskmail] Re: W3NR PSKmailserver (5)
- From: Rein Couperus PA0R <rein@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:56:53 +0100
Good idea Steve...
I am available most of the time (exception, new year's eve)...
You can find me with skype (rein_pa0r) and on pa0r@xxxxxxxxxx (IM).
I am also on world wide converse (channel 4791).
We can try a qso, although dx condx are really miserable at the moment.
73,
Rein PA0R
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 15:49 -0600, Steven Pituch wrote:
> Hi Rein and all,
> Ever since the ARRL QST magazine stopped publishing their propagation maps I
> have used them on the Internet. See:
> http://www.arrl.org/qst/propcharts/2006/12/mid.pdf
> For those of us with dipoles, 20 meters here in Texas opens up (locally)
> between about 11am and 4pm local time , since we are at the bottom of the
> sun spot cycle. This translates to a possible (local) opening from 17 to 22
> UTC. The propagation chart only has between 12 and 14 UTC as a possible
> time for a DX contact between mid-USA and Western Europe.
> We can consider making a sched. I would suggest that we cheat and use IM or
> MSN messenger to chat during the attempts. That way one person can transmit
> and the other can look on his waterfall for a signal, and we can alternate
> the tasks of transmitting and listening. The immediate feedback would help
> tremendously if we have propagation. Right now it appears fruitless to
> monitor several frequencies for hours at a time pinging away, when you don't
> know if you are heard, or whether the other station is even on the same
> frequency. Right now we have not made a first NA-NA, but EU-NA is still
> possible.
>
> If you have a state of the art propagation tool, the better propagation
> predictions would help even more.
>
> Regards,
> Steve Pituch, W2MY
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pskmail-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pskmail-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Rein Couperus PA0R
> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 6:23 AM
> To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [pskmail] Re: W3NR PSKmailserver (5)
>
> I have been running the ORION on 14077.000 during the night, but no sign of
> any PSK125 signal.
>
> Pity, I would have liked to make a first EU-NA.
>
> Rein PA0R
>
> BTW, the first AF-EU is by 5A7A...PI4TUE, Nov.28 2006.
>
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