| G0CHE works CT3HF on 4M |
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| On Sunday 16 July 2006 I was very lucky to contact Duarte, CT3HF, on 4M.
This was the first G <> CT3 qso on 4M - IO90PS to IM12OP via ES, a distance of 2406km. |
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| That weekend there was widespread ES over Europe, North America, Carribean
and beyond. There was also a 6M contest and CQ3A (CT3 contest station) was 59+ on 6M. On the Sunday the MUF was over
70MHz and at 1507 I worked CT1JAD on 4M. Afterwards I was hearing CQ3A loud again on 6M so I called and asked if they
could alert Duarte and try listening on 70.200 whilst I listened on 70.620. |
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| About 5 minutes later I heard SSB on 70.620 - "CQ CQ CQ 4M CT3HF CT3HF
CQ CQ..." I immediately replied on 70.200 and we made the QSO @ 1527 - 5x5 each way. |
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| My station at that time was IC756PRO driving Spectrum Communications
TRC4-10sL transverter and Moonraker 3 element yagi @ 11M. I learned after the QSO that the Howes transverter Duarte
was using was previously owned by myself the year before ! (It had been sold to another G station before Duarte
acquired it) |
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| G0CHE works EA6SX on 4M |
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| Having worked CT3HF for first G < > CT on 4M I never thought I would achieve another 4M first. However a late
night session on 4M produced yet another ! |
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| Miguel, EA6SX, had a few unsuccessful attempts to work G using JT6M and FSK441 via meteor scatter in the days
leading upto 9th December 2008. I had monitored some of these and received and decoded some signals from him, an encouraging sign. During the night of 8th/9th December,
Miguel was trying MS skeds with a number of EU countries, again I was monitoring his QSO's and getting good MS bursts from him. |
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| Via ON4KST chat, I asked Miguel to try after his current QSO had ended. Our QSO attempt started at 01:33 on 70.204MHz
using FSK441 mode. At 01:40 I received the first burst from Miguel, 014000 4.0 320 5 26 -21 G0CHE EA6SX 26 26 F0CHE EB# S 26 63. I replied with R27 and waited patiently
for Miguel's RRRR's reply. The next burst was heard at 01:45, again I decoded both calls and 26 report. I continued sending R27 plus calls, then at 02:02 when I received
another MS burst, this time RRRR's were decoded - 020200 13.4 740 9 26 22 E PA6SX RRRR RRRR EA6SX RRRR RRRR EA6SX. I replied with the customary 73's and tnx. |
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The QSO was complete ! Another new country and grid in the 4M log and a 4M G < > EA6 4M first !
EA6SX locator is JM19IK - a distance of 1288km.
Since the inital QSO I have worked Miguel a few times using JT6M mode.
Equipment used was IC756PRO driving Spectrum Communications TRC4-10sL transverter, solid state PA (approx. 60W) and 4 ele YU7EF yagi @ 11M. |
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| You can download zip file of the QSO's FSK wav files here (approx 1.7MB) - 3 x 30sec files. |
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G0CHE 4M G Firsts
