[ARCHIVED THREAD] - K5P in the log (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 1/17/2016 9:50:53 AM EDT
IN THE LOG after 5 days and about 30 hours of total time chasing him.  
I managed to work them this morning about 30 minutes after sunrise on 40m CW. K5P has been a hard to get all time new one for me. The low bands have been the only place I can hear them. I have only been able to hear them on 30m and 40m. |
Nice work K9-Bob! 
I heard them on 30m CW before sunrise today, just not quite strong enough to work. I tried 40m yesterday morning around 5am. They had a fair signal, but it must have been LID day. Friggin idiots interfering & then those that engage them by sending obscenities back & forth. I don't even acknowledge those retards, because that's what they want. They are apparently starved for attention & don't have a life. They just follow the DX station no mater what frequency they choose. Propagation has been bad lately, even late night on the low bands. I miss those strong early morning signals from that part of the world. Doubt I get them in the log now. |
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I can hear the pileups, but never them. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile This mainly. And some of the pileups were spread out over 5 or 6 khz, with people on every freq in between hollering their call sign almost continually.  I actually did hear them a couple times right after they started but on frequencies I couldn't transmit on.
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Well, 15M right now is the strongest I've heard. I put him in the log SSB. Hadn't fired up the amp in a long time. Love that smell of roasting dust that comes off of those 572B's... RX 280 - 290 If that was the pileup around 21,280 something, it was the same. Dozens of people hollering their call sign almost continuously spread out over 5 or 6 khz. I don't know how they worked anyone with the trash that was going on. 
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Strong sigs on both 40M SSB and 30M CW this AM.
Naturally, I embarrassed myself by dropping a few SSB calls on his freq before being reminded to hit the SPLIT button
I'm pretty sure I QSO'ed on 10.107 MHz, but between a bit of QRM, and my atrophied CW skillz, I'm not 100% sure. Will check their log.... I gotta get back into CW. Anyway, signal strengths from the Palmyra Island DXpedition are really improving compared to a few days ago, so give it a try! |
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Hmmm...I may try getting up early tomorrow and looking for them. I did bag a few interesting places on CW last night...got Mali...that was fun. Dude was getting buried in QRM that didn't know he was up AND the up police banging away. Patience won out as I watched where he was listening, parked there, sent call as close to his speed as I could figure...waited...after a good 15 seconds of QRM I get him giving my call as clear as a bell. I could picture him sitting there shaking his head as he waits for a clear freq. |
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Hmmm...I may try getting up early tomorrow and looking for them. I did bag a few interesting places on CW last night...got Mali...that was fun. Dude was getting buried in QRM that didn't know he was up AND the up police banging away. Patience won out as I watched where he was listening, parked there, sent call as close to his speed as I could figure...waited...after a good 15 seconds of QRM I get him giving my call as clear as a bell. I could picture him sitting there shaking his head as he waits for a clear freq. I don't do CW so have they been on a freq that a general can transmit SSB on? A couple days ago they weren't. |
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I could just here him, but I know I would never reach him with my current antenna setup.  Been listening for the last hour on 17 & 20M and all I hear are (mostly) LIDS who can't understand the concept of working splits and the rude assholes who correct them and tune up key down for minutes at a time. 
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I don't do CW so have they been on a freq that a general can transmit SSB on? A couple days ago they weren't. Quoted:
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Hmmm...I may try getting up early tomorrow and looking for them. I did bag a few interesting places on CW last night...got Mali...that was fun. Dude was getting buried in QRM that didn't know he was up AND the up police banging away. Patience won out as I watched where he was listening, parked there, sent call as close to his speed as I could figure...waited...after a good 15 seconds of QRM I get him giving my call as clear as a bell. I could picture him sitting there shaking his head as he waits for a clear freq. I don't do CW so have they been on a freq that a general can transmit SSB on? A couple days ago they weren't. I got them on 20m SSB when they were transmitting on 14.195 and listening 14.225-14.230 |
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I don't do CW so have they been on a freq that a general can transmit SSB on? A couple days ago they weren't. As above, they were transmitting on 21120, and running "split" listening on 21280 through 21290, so everyone can join the party, general and up. |
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I thought I had Chesterfield but was not in log.
Reason? Some Cuban DXpedition took their frequency and my CW -fu was weak. I QSO'd the Cubans. I wrote the Chesterfield people and asked why I wasn't in the log and they told me they never heard me. I looked up the Cubans and sure enough! In the log. When I wrote the Chesterfield people back telling them what happened they asked me where they could find the Cubans log. I guess I can't wear a mask because I am not the Lone Ranger. 
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As above, they were transmitting on 21120, and running "split" listening on 21280 through 21290, so everyone can join the party, general and up. Quoted:
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I don't do CW so have they been on a freq that a general can transmit SSB on? A couple days ago they weren't. As above, they were transmitting on 21120, and running "split" listening on 21280 through 21290, so everyone can join the party, general and up. Also from above - I got them on 20m SSB when they were transmitting on 14.195 and listening 14.225-14.230
How do you figure this out? I would assume if you're listening when they first start transmitting you might hear this info but you're sure as hell not once everyone starts yelling their call sign continuously on 5 or 6 khz at a couple frequencies??? |
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I thought I had Chesterfield but was not in log. Reason? Some Cuban DXpedition took their frequency and my CW -fu was weak. I QSO'd the Cubans. I wrote the Chesterfield people and asked why I wasn't in the log and they told me they never heard me. I looked up the Cubans and sure enough! In the log. When I wrote the Chesterfield people back telling them what happened they asked me where they could find the Cubans log. I guess I can't wear a mask because I am not the Lone Ranger.
Alright, help a brother out. How do you see if you're in someone's log? |
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Alright, help a brother out. How do you see if you're in someone's log? 1. Go to their QRZ page. QRZ.com. Type in their call sign. 2. Dxpeditions generally have a link to their web site. Go there. 3. Click 'log'. 4. follow instrictions. K5P is using clublog. Open the log check thing on eht K5P website. It will go to clublog's 'check the log' page. Type THEIR call into the top line, yours in bottom and click 'Find QSOs' ETA for NON Dxpeditions ( basic average hams) go to their QRZ page, get their email and send them an email. Most guys are pretty good about it. What is funny is if you are not many of them will ask if you want a sked. 
ETA...Say 'Thank you.' 
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Also from above - How do you figure this out? I would assume if you're listening when they first start transmitting you might hear this info but you're sure as hell not once everyone starts yelling their call sign continuously on 5 or 6 khz at a couple frequencies??? Quoted:
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I don't do CW so have they been on a freq that a general can transmit SSB on? A couple days ago they weren't. As above, they were transmitting on 21120, and running "split" listening on 21280 through 21290, so everyone can join the party, general and up. Also from above - I got them on 20m SSB when they were transmitting on 14.195 and listening 14.225-14.230
How do you figure this out? I would assume if you're listening when they first start transmitting you might hear this info but you're sure as hell not once everyone starts yelling their call sign continuously on 5 or 6 khz at a couple frequencies??? Great question! Took me a while to figure this stuff out. First off, if they are a rare entity you just assume they will operate split. A good operator will announce periodically that they are operating "UP" (split) and tell you where to call. A lot of the time they are very busy answering calls and forget to let folks know where they are listening. The second way to see where they are and where they are listening is to check the DX spots like dxwatch.com. Don't get discouraged, chasing DX is a challenge. |
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1. Go to their QRZ page. QRZ.com. Type in their call sign. 2. Dxpeditions generally have a link to their web site. Go there. 3. Click 'log'. 4. follow instrictions. K5P is using clublog. Open the log check thing on eht K5P website. It will go to clublog's 'check the log' page. Type THEIR call into the top line, yours in bottom and click 'Find QSOs' ETA for NON Dxpeditions ( basic average hams) go to their QRZ page, get their email and send them an email. Most guys are pretty good about it. What is funny is if you are not many of them will ask if you want a sked.
ETA...Say 'Thank you.'
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Alright, help a brother out. How do you see if you're in someone's log? 1. Go to their QRZ page. QRZ.com. Type in their call sign. 2. Dxpeditions generally have a link to their web site. Go there. 3. Click 'log'. 4. follow instrictions. K5P is using clublog. Open the log check thing on eht K5P website. It will go to clublog's 'check the log' page. Type THEIR call into the top line, yours in bottom and click 'Find QSOs' ETA for NON Dxpeditions ( basic average hams) go to their QRZ page, get their email and send them an email. Most guys are pretty good about it. What is funny is if you are not many of them will ask if you want a sked.
ETA...Say 'Thank you.'
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01:30 CST Palmyra is on 7183. I can't hear them though, even without a pileup to drown them out. Meh - don't worry. As mentioned above, I also look at dxwatch.com for time and freq guidance. I hear K5P about 2/3 of the time on all the various bands, and they are workable maybe 1/4 of the time here (barefoot), assuming I stuck with it for the amount of time it would take. They really do have an unusually weak setup - I read that they are limited to in-land vertical antennas only. Ok for the low bands, but pretty far down from nice yagi setups (or even a decent dipole) on the higher bands. Here, low noise beverage or other directional RX antennas would be helpful, as would 1kW+... That would push up my sucess rate to maybe 50 or 60 percent? even using my inverted L's. Some day I may get serious enough to chase DX. Until then, I'll be ok with the 2 contacts with K5P thus far, with maybe a few more before they go QRT. |
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That's weird - an image loading problem? Looks like the fancy check mark image just didn't load on your machine???....
edit - doh - I see the text also says "has not worked..." Don't know if ths makes any difference, but mine says "Leaderboard for Zone 4" or if that's just automatic. Here's mine: 
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You'll get em.
12 meters 24.895 is good right now - worked them @100 Watts. Hope they got the call sign correctly - I was kinda surprise they heard me, as they were just barely peaking over S1, and I bounced an extra DIT a little after the end of my callsign
They send a bit faster than my rusty skilz can handle, so I'm not 100% sure they got it right.... |
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DX Summit Right click on the DX station and it give you a choice between a VOCAP prediction, a Grey line map, their QRZ page or Clublog. |
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Another brutal pile up, but after about 2 hours of chasing him I managed to get him in the log. I would love to work him on the higher bands or in another mode, but propagation has been poor. Congrats! This is like a lotto ticket - put yours and mine together, and we'd have a good set. 
(I'm almost positive I worked em on 80M, but it's whited out for some reason...???...) |
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Congrats! This is like a lotto ticket - put yours and mine together, and we'd have a good set. Quoted:
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Another brutal pile up, but after about 2 hours of chasing him I managed to get him in the log. I would love to work him on the higher bands or in another mode, but propagation has been poor. Congrats! This is like a lotto ticket - put yours and mine together, and we'd have a good set. Yes we would. I have a friend that has worked K5P from 10m thru 160m. My friend has about $20k in towers and antennas so he makes it look easy. All I have is a wire in a tree, so it takes a bit more effort to get them in the log. 
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That's all I use - 100 watts & some wire in the trees.
Big snow storm headed this way tomorrow. If I go out in the blizzard & toss a coat hanger in a tree, that will be worth 15 or 20 dB of gain, right? I'll be able to work the world on any band I choose. Yeah that's the ticket!
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Here's to wires in trees! 
That's what I use as well, although I did lite up the 572B's for some of the QSO's... (tnx for the DX Summit piccolo - nice features there.) |