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. > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.0/610 - Release Date: 12/30/2006 > 2:59 PM > >