LA0BY/p in JP61AF wkd via MS on 144 MHz:
1999-08-11 1800-1830 RV3AH KO85TO NIL 2000-2030 RX3QFM KO91FM 26 1b 1p NC 2100-2130 UT5ER KN78ER NIL 2200-2300 YU7KB JN94XX 26 26 6b 10p NC 2300-2330 S51AT JN75GW NIL 1999-08-12 0700-0730 F1DUZ IN97NJ NIL 0805-0855 OK1KT JO70WE 27 27 10b 3p 5s C 0840-0855 DK8EL JO31PK 37 38 4b 3p 10s C 0858-0910 DL1EJA JO31DS 38 47 10s NC r 0910-0930 F6DRO JN03SM NIL 0930-0950 DL1EJA JO31DS 27 37 3b 4p 2s C r 0950-1000 F6HVK JN27LH 27 NC r 1000-1030 DF2ZC JO30RN 27 37 8b 3p 25s C 1030-1105 DL1EAP JO31IK 38 27 3b 2p 10s C ? 1105-1130 EI5FK IO51RF NIL 1135-1138 PA3BZO JO21RS 39 37 4b 90s C r 1148-1158 DF9QT JO30DR 39 38 3b 30s C r 1103-1125 DF8IK JO30IT 37 37 C r 1120-1200 DL5ME JO52SD 37 26 NC After this first night I decided to change QTH. The take-off here was reasonable (max 2 degrees horison) but not really good except for direction SSE. My apologies to I1JTQ and I1ANP for not being QRV after midnight on the first day. Due to the poor reflections I decided to rather catch some sleep and spent more time operating the other night. My problem in the area was the forest. There are lots of locations along the roads with good horison, but my little mast does not make it over the trees. I believe in locations with excellent take-off also for MS work. So I drove back to a farm which I spotted the previous day, but were the owner had not been around. He was in this time, and I got permission to establish myself on the fenced meadows behind the farm building. From there I had just perfect horison from 140-210 degrees. About 50 km view! Also the other directions were below 1 degree. And, even more important: I had a long and steep slope towards South and no trees at all. SK7VHF came in via Tropo.
LA0BY/p in JP61DB wkd via MS on 144 MHz:
1999-08-12 1655-1702 PE1RWS 37 37 3b C r SSB *1 1832-1838 RV3IG KO87OT 59 59 2b C r SSB *2 1448km 1842 UA3MBJ KO88SA 59 59 1b C r SSB *2 1456km 1842 RV3IB KO87IS 59 59 1b C r SSB *2 1423km 1943 UT8AL KO61WP 37 37 1b NC r SSB *1 2000-2020 LA5TFA JP99LQ 28 27 4b 4p NC SSB 2025 LA8KV JP52QQ 38 38 1b C r SSB *1 *6 2025 OH6MSZ KP21XU 39 39 1b C r SSB *1 2039-2100 ES2RJ KO29JM 37 27 6b 6p 10s C r SSB 2150 DL3IAE JN49DE 39 38 1b NC r SSB *1 2241-2255 DG1VL JO61VC 38 27 1b 1p NC r SSB 2244 SP4MPB KO03GS 38 27 1b C r SSB 2248 DK5TE JN47NX 38 27 1b C r SSB 2314 SP9EWO JN99HW 27 37 1b C r SSB 2323 OK2MWR JN99 59 27 1b C r SSB 2323-2335 OK2SBL 37 2b NC r SSB 2335-2340 IV3HWT JN65ST 38 27 3b C r SSB 2340 IW2BNA JN45 38 39 1b C r SSB *7 2340-2350 S51AT JN75GW 37 27 3b C r SSB 1690km 2342 I2FHW JN44 38 36 1b C r SSB 2352 S57TW JN75EX 38 37 1b C r SSB 1685km 2352-0002 S57S JN76JB 37 37 2b NC r SSB 1999-08-13 0005-0007 S55AW JN75DS 37 37 3b C r SSB 1708km 0005-0018 IZ5EME JN52NS 38 37 4b 90s! C r SSB 2037km 0021 DL5ME JN52SD 38 27 1b C r SSB *3 0021 DL2ARD JO60AR 39 37 1b C r SSB *3 0022 DJ3MY JN58QD 49 49 1b C r SSB *3 0022 DG1VL JO61VC 39 39 1b C r SSB *3 0022 DL4NAA 39 59 1b C r SSB *3 0023 DL5GAC JN47SS 39 39 1b C r SSB *3 0023 DL5WG JO52VK 37 27 1b C r SSB *3 0024 DL3HRT JO61AB 39 28 1b C r SSB *3 0024 DL4MDQ JN58SP 37 27 1b NC r SSB *3 0054 F5HRY JN18EQ 37 27 1b C r SSB 0057-0105 DJ5BV JO30MR 37 26 4b NC r SSB 0105 9A1CAL JN86EL 39 37 1b C r SSB 1645km 0105 HB9DFG JN37SM 38 37 1b C r SSB 0117-0122 OK1FID JO80CH 37 27 2b C r SSB 0122 OK2PVF 37 27 1b NC r SSB 0125-0129 DL4ABJ JO42XP 38 27 4b C r SSB 0130 SP2SKW ? 37 27 3b NC r SSB 0134-0138 OK2BVE 38 37 3b C r SSB 0136 DH5FS JO60UA 39 59 1b C r SSB 0142 DH0GHU JN38VN 38 37 1b C r SSB 0143-0145 HB9FAP JN46EW 39 37 2b C r SSB 0144 DL9USA JO71EN 39 27 NC r SSB 0153-0159 DH8BQA JO73CF 37 27 3b NC r SSB *4 0159-0219 I4XCC JN63GV 39 37 5b NC r SSB *1 0221 DL4MDQ JN58SP 38 38 1b C r SSB *1 0246 HA7UL JN97KK 37 37 1b C r SSB *1 0250 OK2PVF 37 27 1b C r SSB *1 0251 9A4FW JN95JG 37 38 1b C r SSB *1 1809km 0252 S52EZ 37 27 1b C r SSB *1 0304 I4XCC JN63GV 37 27 1b C r SSB *1 1911km 0304 I2FAK JN45OB 38 38 1b NC r SSB *1 0315 DL1EAP JO31IK 38 1b NC r SSB *1 0645-0705 F6FHP IN94TR 37 26 13b 30s C 1999km 0716 DL1EAP JO31IK 38 27 1b C r SSB 0716 DL4MEA JN58JD 49 37 1b C r SSB 0716 DL5ROB 39 38 1b C r SSB 0720 DL3IAE JN49DE 39 39 1b C r SSB 0722-0738 DF1BN JO31GD 37 27 6b C r SSB 0746 DF1CF JN57FP 39 37 1b C r SSB 0749 G7RAU IO90IR 37 38 1b C r SSB 0749 ON1ALJ JO10VV 37 37 1b C r SSB 0754 ON4KHG JO10WK 39 37 1b C r SSB 0758-0802 DK0PX JN49 39 37 3b NC r SSB 0802-0804 DJ5BV JO30MR 38 36 3b C r SSB 0808-0810 M0BTZ/p 39 39 2b C r SSB 0814-0818 G0KPW JO02OD 38 27 6b C r SSB 0820 G3YVR IO91WD 37 27 1b C r SSB 0820 DJ3HW JO42LH 38 27 1b C r SSB 0820-0830 DF9PX JN49HU 38 37 3b C r SSB 0838-0848 G1WPF IO91RP 27 37 6b C r SSB 0852-0854 G8IZY IO91VC 38 27 3b C r SSB 0854 PE1GNP JO31IX 28 27 1b NC r SSB 0909 PA2GER 38 38 1b C r SSB 0909 DG6JF/p JO33QN 38 38 1b C r SSB 0909 DL8GP JN39LH 37 37 1b C r SSB 0909 PA3CEE JN33JI 39 39 1b C r SSB 0920-0935 PE9DX 38 27 5b C r SSB 0939-0950 G4AEP IO91NJ 38 39 3b C r SSB 1015-1036 F6CRP IN96KE 28 27 4b C r SSB 1870km 1016 DL2FDX JO40LG 38 28 1b NC r SSB 1021-1036 F/G8MBI JN04FT 27 27 8b C r SSB 1969km 1041 F6DRO JN03SM 29 29 1b C r SSB 2079km 1059 IK2EAE JN45LL 39 39 1b C r SSB 1749km 1059 DL2FDX JO40LG 38 28 1b C r SSB 1107-1122 PE1GNP JO31IX 39 27 8b C r SSB 1137 DJ2QV JO31OM 39 27 1b C r SSB 1230-1255 F6HVK JN27LH 39 27 mni b+p 10s C 1255-1308 DJ4UF JO30 47 38 mni b+p 30s C r 1420-1500 S50C JN76JG 27 26 mni b+p NC SSB 1800-1825 UT5ER KN78ER 27 27 10b 15s C 1953km 1900-1935 RK3AF KO75WO 37 27 25b 15s C 1497km 2000-2030 RX3PX KO84SD NIL 2100-2155 UA3TCF LO26IU 26 26 14b 2p 15s C 1899km 2200-2225 YO3DMU KN34BJ NIL 2230-2305 S51MQ JN75NT 26 26 5b 7p 1s C 2305-2320 9A2TE JN85KK 26 NC 2320-2330 9A1CCB JN85KK 27 26 5b 2p 3s C 1765km 2358-0015 DJ1OJ JN58 36 37 3b 10s C r 1999-08-14 0015-0040 IK4PLU JN64 NIL 0615-0640 OK1UAK JO70MB 27 27 6b 2p 5s C r 0640-0705 I5YDI/5 37 4b 30s NC r 0705-0750 EI5FK IO51RF 37 26 11b 6p 15s C 1681km 0808-0817 DL3YEL JO41EV 27 27 7b 2p 1s C r 0843-0857 HA8CE KN06EN 27 37 5b 2s C r 1697km 0857-0923 DL8SCQ 37 27 mni b+p 20s C r 0925-0940 F1DUZ IN97NJ 37 38 mni b+p 12s C r 1739km 0940-0953 DL1UU JN62SP 27 27 4b 3p 25s C r 0958-1110 OE6IWG JN77PK 27 26 mni b+p 30s C r *5 1120-1150 9A2TE JN85KK 38 26 12b 4p 10s C 1765km (*1) Contact made around calling frequency 144,200 MHz. When there was no response on my frequency 144,155 MHz or when I needed a break I was sometimes listening there. Also heard on 144,200 MHz were RX3QFM, RK3AF, HA1VQ, HA5KNQ, RV3IG, RW3PF, GM4YXI, SP8UFT, HA5CW, S50C, YU1WP, YU1IO, YO3JW. (*2) I called RV3IG first when he was 3 kHz higher calling somebody else. He came down on my frequency a little later and alerted UA3MBJ and RV3IB as well. Booming signals! Where were the other UA3s? RV3IB was running only 5 W power, which probably represents my QRP record on MS! (*3) This was a single burst lasting for about 3 minutes! Set my new personal record with 8 complete contacts in one burst! (*4) Heard weakly via Tropo. (*5) I was close to tears, hi. Received one 30s burst after the other, and sent R27 for 1 hour before Walter replied with RRR. Walter told me later that his preamp had suffered a damage from a lightning stroke. It was causing 3-26 dB loss. No wonder! (*6) Shortest distance I ever worked on MS. I could not hear Kjetil on Tropo. (*7) I obviously forgot to write down this contact. Walter had proof of QSO, maybe I am getting too old for this? All in all this was again an enjoyable Perseids activity, which resultet in 97 complete MS contacts. Easy to work random SSB, even over 2000+ km distance. Once I got a 90s burst when I called CQ in CW and it was wasted: I did not manage to decode a single callsign, too much QRM. In SSB it would have been possible to complete a few contacts. Therefore I worked only random SSB during the peak of the shower. 72 contacts were made in that mode. The shower was peaking almost as predicted, perhaps 1 hour later. During the peak I saw many bright fireballs in the dark sky. As usual, the reflections prior to the peak were quite poor. The day after the peak (14.8.) was again still good, but activity dropped rapidly. According to my experience from 3 consecutive years, the day after the peak is the day for skeds - not before. Considerable effort was again made to work into Eastern Europe. Several skeds were arranged, and I also spent some time calling CQ towards UA3. Still I wonder if the information on my activity really spread out to the OPs. The reflections were certainly there... Another comment is related to the SSB operating procedure of several UA3 stations. It is very common to hear somebody calling CQ with only saying his call for 1 minute without breaking. How shall we make single burst QSOs? For some UA3 stations it is also common to not repeat the callsign of the station they are calling, not to talk about the necessity of final RRR... As a matter of fact I was not the only station being on from JP61. To my surprise LA6QBA showed up from his summer house in JP61BJ. He said later he worked 40 stations as well. Other LA stations heard were LA6MV in JO59, LA6FJA and LA8AJA in JP50. My equipment was only 180 W into 2 x 9 ele-yagis, vertically stacked on an 8m telescopic mast. Phasing cables were Aircell 7, and feeder only 6 m of Aircom Plus. Together with the MGF1302 masthead preamp this made a lightweight and very sensitive setup.
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Stefan Heck, last updated August 1999.