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Posted: 7/5/2022 12:36:00 PM EDT
[#1]
I tried getting in a few times when out and aboot this weekend.. heard some horrendous / asshole ops trying to get in
 I just turned off my radio and listened to my music. 
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Posted: 7/5/2022 1:48:50 PM EDT
[#2]
Got the last 2 last night. All mobile CW while traveling
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Posted: 7/5/2022 3:07:57 PM EDT
[#3]
Looks like a bunch of fools on FT8 don't how to look at PSKreporter. Constantly trying to reach GB13COL right now. Well no one is reaching England right now.
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Posted: 7/5/2022 3:47:56 PM EDT
[#4]
Still need my home state (PA), France and G.B. I got WM3PEN but only heard K2M once but no luck getting him.
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Posted: 7/5/2022 3:57:28 PM EDT
[#5]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Still need my home state (PA), France and G.B. I got WM3PEN but only heard K2M once but no luck getting him. @enp 14.225 right now GB13COL |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 7:44:16 PM EDT
[#6]
TM13COL on 14.320 working through the numbers, on 5 now.
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Posted: 7/5/2022 9:28:10 PM EDT
[#7]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Looks like a bunch of fools on FT8 don't how to look at PSKreporter. Constantly trying to reach GB13COL right now. Well no one is reaching England right now. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 10:10:31 PM EDT
[#8]
S51DX was almost begging folks for a contact.
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Posted: 7/6/2022 9:44:09 AM EDT
[#9]
Quote HistoryQuoted: S51DX was almost begging folks for a contact. haha.. I hear him all the time. I did get B and H yesterday on the way to work, as well as 3 POTAs (1 was a 241) not bad for a 25 min drive to work, and the band (20m) is not doing well (or is it just my setup?) |
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Posted: 7/6/2022 4:53:15 PM EDT
[#10]
Don't think I'm gonna get to France before this ends.
Seems they are running a pretty light schedule. |
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Posted: 7/6/2022 5:02:10 PM EDT
[#11]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Don't think I'm gonna get to France before this ends. Seems they are running a pretty light schedule. He was on all evening EST yesterday. The jackasses spotted him as GB13COL on DxSummit but it was TM13COL on 40m and he was busy. His French accent was the tell since he rarely ID’d, simply said CQ DX iirc. I picked up a couple yesterday, none today. Still need two, I think PA and the British fellow. |
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Posted: 7/6/2022 6:09:22 PM EDT
[#12]
They're all out there now.
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Posted: 7/6/2022 8:18:20 PM EDT
[#13]
Still need PA, G.B. and France. France has been on every evening but I cannot break through the pile ups. I have only seen PA on voice once and a few times digital but want all voice contacts.
Edit.....Just got France |
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Posted: 7/6/2022 9:11:05 PM EDT
[#14]
Waiting for France to get back to 1s. There are morons calling him and they don't even know who they're calling, and I don't mean his personal callsign.
And he never came back to 1s and I can no longer hear him. |
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Posted: 7/6/2022 9:30:03 PM EDT
[#15]
There is no way I am fighting this pileup.
Meh I have every single other one. |
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Posted: 7/6/2022 9:39:49 PM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: There is no way I am fighting this pileup. Meh I have every single other one. I just got home to see on DX Summit to see the lids drove off the GB station. A bunch of dummies I guess. Lots of spots citing horrible behavior of US hams.  OH Well, I guess not tonight. |
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Posted: 7/6/2022 10:08:52 PM EDT
[#17]
I think I'm done trying for the French and British station.
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Posted: 7/7/2022 10:37:58 AM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I think I'm done trying for the French and British station. I finally got the French bonus station on 17m CW. I give up on the Brit. They never do much CW at all and I think they just don't have hardly any experienced CW operators. So again this year, as in the previous years, I've got the clean sweep on CW of all stations except the Brit. |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 10:49:26 AM EDT
[#19]
That's it, screw it, I give up. I haven't been able to find either the GB or TM station on CW and thunderboomers are going to boiling up for the rest of the day.
But all 13 colonies and WM3PEN are in the log. |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 11:38:10 AM EDT
[#20]
The last 12 hours, the home stretch. Tonight is the night to observe The Mother Of All Pile-ups.
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Posted: 7/7/2022 12:14:13 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That's it, screw it, I give up. I haven't been able to find either the GB or TM station on CW and thunderboomers are going to boiling up for the rest of the day. But all 13 colonies and WM3PEN are in the log. I am seeing them on: http://dxsummit.fi/#/?dx_calls=GB13COL,TM13COL Maybe it isn't what you want? |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 1:56:18 PM EDT
[#22]
I got 6 this year. Stopped listening to pile ups, man it was nuts.
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Posted: 7/7/2022 5:00:47 PM EDT
[#23]
Well after pouncing on TM13COL every time it CQ'd on FT4, I just finally got it, that's 13+3.
I need a nap now. |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 6:29:00 PM EDT
[#24]
I just got GB13COL on TGIF net DMR.
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Posted: 7/7/2022 9:54:53 PM EDT
[#25]
Pro tip:. telling the pile up chasing the 13 colonies that they are behaving worse than a bunch of CBer's shuts up half of them. ??
This was my only unprofessional transmission. I waited over an hour for K2H to get to the zero calls and every out of turn station only slowed the process down. The way US hams acted when trying to contact the English and French stations was shameful. The behavior while trying to contact the US stations wasn't much better. The calling out of turn, calling over the 13 colonies stations, the name calling. The audio quality of some of the calling stations was some of the worse that I have ever heard outside of field day. Why not call a few times then go try another station and come back later to see if the propagation path improved?!? |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 10:41:56 PM EDT
[#26]
Just got K2F. I thought the first one was a fluke but happy to have more than one.
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Posted: 7/7/2022 10:42:59 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Pro tip:. telling the pile up chasing the 13 colonies that they are behaving worse than a bunch of CBer's shuts up half of them. ?? This was my only unprofessional transmission. I waited over an hour for K2H to get to the zero calls and every out of turn station only slowed the process down. The way US hams acted when trying to contact the English and French stations was shameful. The behavior while trying to contact the US stations wasn't much better. The calling out of turn, calling over the 13 colonies stations, the name calling. The audio quality of some of the calling stations was some of the worse that I have ever heard outside of field day. Why not call a few times then go try another station and come back later to see if the propagation path improved?!? Yeah, it sucked, and I just gave up. |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 11:13:15 PM EDT
[#28]
Got everybody except the Brit, unless they materialize here in the last hour.
I wasn't able to start hunting until Tuesday, and managed to get everyone with 10 watts on SSB from home. France was the obvious hard one but I lucked out tonight getting him when his pileup was a bit light, he called by numbers, and the grey line came in just right. Big props to Didier who seemed to man TM13COL through most of it, he ran a good Op and worked the pileups like a champ, even called some lids to task when they messed around. Bummed I didn't get the full sweep, but still pretty happy to grab them all QRP again this year. |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 11:21:52 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Got everybody except the Brit, unless they materialize here in the last hour. I wasn't able to start hunting until Tuesday, and managed to get everyone with 10 watts on SSB from home. France was the obvious hard one but I lucked out tonight getting him when his pileup was a bit light, he called by numbers, and the grey line came in just right. Big props to Didier who seemed to man TM13COL through most of it, he ran a good Op and worked the pileups like a champ, even called some lids to task when they messed around. Bummed I didn't get the full sweep, but still pretty happy to grab them all QRP again this year. This is a hell of an accomplishment on 10 watts! |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 11:28:59 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: This is a hell of an accomplishment on 10 watts! Last year I got similar results, all SSB QRP except that time I got GB but couldn't hear TM. |
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Posted: 7/8/2022 1:00:32 AM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Got everybody except the Brit, unless they materialize here in the last hour. I wasn't able to start hunting until Tuesday, and managed to get everyone with 10 watts on SSB from home. France was the obvious hard one but I lucked out tonight getting him when his pileup was a bit light, he called by numbers, and the grey line came in just right. Big props to Didier who seemed to man TM13COL through most of it, he ran a good Op and worked the pileups like a champ, even called some lids to task when they messed around. Bummed I didn't get the full sweep, but still pretty happy to grab them all QRP again this year. That is awesome. I lost interest after hearing the pile ups and general behavior. |
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Posted: 7/8/2022 8:24:44 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I got 6 this year. Stopped listening to pile ups, man it was nuts. Last night it wasn’t bad at all. Before supper I had all the colonies, Great Britain was a no show. After supper I was able to get all the states again except for one on 40m and one on 80m. 20 was crap. There is even a rude comment on DX Summit in a “spot” chastising the Brit for being a no show yesterday on phone. Yea that will bring him to your request. 
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Posted: 7/8/2022 8:27:25 AM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Got everybody except the Brit, unless they materialize here in the last hour. I wasn't able to start hunting until Tuesday, and managed to get everyone with 10 watts on SSB from home. France was the obvious hard one but I lucked out tonight getting him when his pileup was a bit light, he called by numbers, and the grey line came in just right. Big props to Didier who seemed to man TM13COL through most of it, he ran a good Op and worked the pileups like a champ, even called some lids to task when they messed around. Bummed I didn't get the full sweep, but still pretty happy to grab them all QRP again this year. QRP? Nice job! |
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Posted: 7/8/2022 11:11:59 AM EDT
[#34]
I got K (NH) on the first try yesterday on the way to work.. he spent a lot of time calling CQ
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Posted: 7/8/2022 11:12:22 AM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Got everybody except the Brit, unless they materialize here in the last hour. I wasn't able to start hunting until Tuesday, and managed to get everyone with 10 watts on SSB from home. France was the obvious hard one but I lucked out tonight getting him when his pileup was a bit light, he called by numbers, and the grey line came in just right. Big props to Didier who seemed to man TM13COL through most of it, he ran a good Op and worked the pileups like a champ, even called some lids to task when they messed around. Bummed I didn't get the full sweep, but still pretty happy to grab them all QRP again this year. Good job!  What antennas were you using? |
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Posted: 7/8/2022 11:43:50 AM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Good job! What antennas were you using? |
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Posted: 7/8/2022 1:07:19 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That's it, screw it, I give up. I haven't been able to find either the GB or TM station on CW and thunderboomers are going to boiling up for the rest of the day. But all 13 colonies and WM3PEN are in the log. I got the exact same ones. All CW, all mobile. My dad died Monday and I was making the drive from KY to MS 3 times in a week. Needed something to do to keep me occupied. 
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Posted: 7/8/2022 7:10:40 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I got the exact same ones. All CW, all mobile. My dad died Monday and I was making the drive from KY to MS 3 times in a week. Needed something to do to keep me occupied. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: That's it, screw it, I give up. I haven't been able to find either the GB or TM station on CW and thunderboomers are going to boiling up for the rest of the day. But all 13 colonies and WM3PEN are in the log. I got the exact same ones. All CW, all mobile. My dad died Monday and I was making the drive from KY to MS 3 times in a week. Needed something to do to keep me occupied. I am truly sorry for your loss QRP. May peace come to you and your family during your time of sorrow.
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Posted: 8/2/2022 7:23:02 PM EDT
[#39]
Got a reward in the mail for operating K2L from my home station. Surprisingly it's a well made placard on a wooden base.
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Posted: 8/2/2022 8:07:10 PM EDT
[#40]
I forgot to send in my log this year
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