Update from Spratly
Well, we have been trying hard here at Layang Layang to get people from all over the World in the log on as many bands as possible. Here is a band by band breakdown of the activity:
10M – This has been very spotty and all in the JA – VK – BY South East Asia area. We will try again today and tomorrow. Mostly SSB on 28495 around 07 – 09Z alternating with 12M to see what is open.
12M – We had a nice opening to JA and even worked a couple of EU on Tuesday. We will also be on 24945 around 07 – 09Z today and tomorrow.
15M – No NA. No EU other than a little OH/SM. We will be likely on 21005 and 21295 +/- around 08 – 011Z. Nice JA/BY/VK runs though.
17M – We have had excellent runs on 17M including some EU and West Coast NA. 08 – 13Z and again around 23 – 01Z.
20M – Nice NA openings from 23 – 01Z and 13 – 15Z. EU has been excellent from 13 – 20Z although last night it shut down and then re-opened.
30M – A very fun band and surprisingly quiet using the vertical. Starting around 10Z on and off until 01Z. Often 20 and 30 are open at the same time. We have been hampered by interstation interference and have not been able to be active on both as much as we had hoped. I will be looking for NA at 23Z tonight.
40M – Its all about the dragon…sometimes its on and sometimes its off. When it is on…it literally shuts down the band. So when it is off, I tend to favor 40 because it will be back at other times. I have been going to EU around 15Z – 22Z however there have been times, like last night, when the dragon prevented it. Look for me again tonight around that time. For NA, the west coast is around 09 – 13Z. The East Coast has really only been one fantastic LP opening on Wednesday at around 2230Z. Boy that was fun.
80M – Nope. Noise actually isn’t terrible but my 100W to vertical a little too far from the water just isn’t making the cut. I have CQ’d on 3505 almost every day from 1030 – 1100Z and also at EU sunrise times.
160M – We didn’t put up the antenna based on the poor 80M performance.
We will be participating in WPX. When we are on the non-WARC bands on SSB we will be giving out contest exchanges.
48 hours to go.
73
Ed (N1UR) and Christine (KB1PQN)
10M – This has been very spotty and all in the JA – VK – BY South East Asia area. We will try again today and tomorrow. Mostly SSB on 28495 around 07 – 09Z alternating with 12M to see what is open.
12M – We had a nice opening to JA and even worked a couple of EU on Tuesday. We will also be on 24945 around 07 – 09Z today and tomorrow.
15M – No NA. No EU other than a little OH/SM. We will be likely on 21005 and 21295 +/- around 08 – 011Z. Nice JA/BY/VK runs though.
17M – We have had excellent runs on 17M including some EU and West Coast NA. 08 – 13Z and again around 23 – 01Z.
20M – Nice NA openings from 23 – 01Z and 13 – 15Z. EU has been excellent from 13 – 20Z although last night it shut down and then re-opened.
30M – A very fun band and surprisingly quiet using the vertical. Starting around 10Z on and off until 01Z. Often 20 and 30 are open at the same time. We have been hampered by interstation interference and have not been able to be active on both as much as we had hoped. I will be looking for NA at 23Z tonight.
40M – Its all about the dragon…sometimes its on and sometimes its off. When it is on…it literally shuts down the band. So when it is off, I tend to favor 40 because it will be back at other times. I have been going to EU around 15Z – 22Z however there have been times, like last night, when the dragon prevented it. Look for me again tonight around that time. For NA, the west coast is around 09 – 13Z. The East Coast has really only been one fantastic LP opening on Wednesday at around 2230Z. Boy that was fun.
80M – Nope. Noise actually isn’t terrible but my 100W to vertical a little too far from the water just isn’t making the cut. I have CQ’d on 3505 almost every day from 1030 – 1100Z and also at EU sunrise times.
160M – We didn’t put up the antenna based on the poor 80M performance.
We will be participating in WPX. When we are on the non-WARC bands on SSB we will be giving out contest exchanges.
48 hours to go.
73
Ed (N1UR) and Christine (KB1PQN)
posted by Ed at
2:24 AM
1 Comments:
Hi Ed & Christine,
I hope you had a good DX'pedition? I was chasing a QSO with you but propagation wasn't great. Not sure about 25 March at 0902 UTC.I certainly worked somone on 14195.It was crazy here both you and 9X0R were on 14195 but the Rwanda team were listening on 14200. I thought I had worked the 9X0 as I was transmitting on 14200 listening on 14195 but despite an OK QSO I am not in the Rwanda online log. To be honest I had already worked Rwanda and it was Spratley I was after.
Heres Hoping!
73
Mike Giddings G3XLB
mikegiddings1@yahoo.com
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