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ZD8UW – UpdateTuesday Jan 06, 2009
Ascension Island - view from Green Mountain
ZD8UW update as of January 6:
We have made 11,000 QSOs up to 13:00 today. We are here until 9 January so there is still plenty of time to work us. The whole team works in rotation to find all openings, including elusive bands like 12M and 10M, and conditions are generally good. Bands are shut in the afternoon.
- Log search = http://clublog.g7vjr.org/l.php?log=ZD8UW
ALL QSOS UP TO 13:00Z 06 January ARE IN LOTW
- HF and general info:
We are on Green Mountain, with a clear view to the horizon from about 210 degrees to 45 degrees. Other paths are totally blocked by the mountain. We haven’t heard VK or ZL yet so we are planning to take a car round the island and operate from the water. Please watch the cluster at 0630Z on January 8th (this time is not absolutely solid).
- QSL info:
We don’t need your card if you don’t need ours! If you are happy with an LoTW confirmation then please save the planet.
- Top band:
We are getting a lot of questions about top band, so here are some notes which I hope will help.
I have been active every day on 160M using a 60ft vertical with an ‘L’. I have put down about 500m of radials but my output power is limited. I am typically on the air at 1900Z, our local sunset. Signals at this time to Europe are nicely enhanced but only briefly. Then, from about 2100Z through to dawn I have static crashes from the equator, which measure S9+20dB. So far, I have logged 1,200 QSOs on top band. I am aware that the QSB is very problematic for you and I wish we had a beverage antenna and a big amp! I am now pretty much burned out on this band and am handing over the key to Simon G4EAG, who will be on at sunset for 2 hours.
Ok – 73 for now and see you on the air.
Michael G7VJR & the team at ZD8UW
PS. The top scoring DX’er has worked us on 14 slots.
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Guys thanks very much for using LOTW.
W8MJ
Propogation has not been kind to VK.
Heard one day @ S7 for about 5 seconds and then it was gone , never to be heard again on any band.
Hear USA and Europe working ok.
We’re listening.
GD DX
73
VK7ZE
Not all the guys that want to work CW are EXTRA class. But we would love to work ZD8. It would be nice if while the DXepedition was on the air, someone could do a few hours operating cw, listening above 7.025, when there was decent propogation to N. America. THANKS for being there in any event! -M
thanks for the contacts. good operators . good ears. 73,s good luck lloyd/n4wpg
good dx-pedition, good operators, thanks for using LoTw.
73 ik8epc
Worked both on 40 and 20m. Very good operators and easy QSOs. Great the use of LoTW.
Best 73s Alberto I2KBD
ZD8UW QRT: 17,900 QSO’s in the log.
Oh well, missed out this time due to poor conditions, no workable copy on any band.
Even when I heard zl’s working on one occasion for a very brief period, the copy here was not workable.
Next time.
Tnx for the efforts.
73
Laurie…..VK7ZE
Thanks for being there!
No joy on this end but it was good to hear some ZL’s get through on the 8th on 20 meters SSB via Short Path….Tnx David and the team for taking the time to drive around to the southern end of the Island to give VK/ZL a go!
73 de Bill Zl3NB
It takes two to tango!
Callers generally were exemplary and the paths to the US West Coast supprisingly good as well as mid and East Coast. Thank you everyone – you gave the group the time of their lives.
73 and here’s to the next tine!
Gordon / G3USR on behalf of the ZD8UW team now safely home in the UK.
Congratulatio all Operators very good , tnx !
IZ1DSH