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PE4BAS Amateur Radio Weblog
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#60m Monaco worked
Posted: 30 May 2021 12:07 PM PDT
https://pe4bas.blogspot.com/2021/05/60m-monaco-worked.html
Let's not forget about 60m!
I recently noticed that 3A/IW1RBI would be active this weekend. Although uncertain if they would activate 60m I was eager to make a QSO and so I programmed my DX alerting app to notify me. Theoretically they will be
active till midnight today. But I have limited time and so if possible I
did want to make it quick...
I initially saw spots of them at inconvinient times on CW/SSB and FT8.
Saturday evening they made 1 CQ call on 60m that was spotted by about 12 stations. The app alerted me, but my station had not seen anything. I saw a
few calling but no one made a contact. A few minutes later I saw them
spotted on CW. Then the game begun. Like the old days....trying to find out were the DX was listening, tuning up or down... 3A/IW1RBI was not really
strong but readable...I choose a frequency above all others to call on. And after about 20 times calling I was finally noticed.
I have to say....I enjoyed this contact a lot more compared to the usual
FT8 F/H these days were you just have to wait till you are next in line...
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