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Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 27-28, 2014
Correcting dates on this item: Jan 28 of course, not Jan 23!
** AMSTERDAM ISLAND [non]. Trying for the FT5ZM DX-pedition again Jan 28 but no activity around 14180, nor 21285. DX-pedition website
http://www.amsterdamdx.org/about-dxpedition/#tab-478-3
shows nominal SSB frequencies: 3790, 7082, 14185, 18130, 21285, 24955, 28485. They also have RTTY and CW: a couple of the latter on bands not using SSB: 1826.5, 10115 kHz.
But Jan 28 at 1420 there are pileups on 18135 and 18140, countless North Americans speaking nothing but their own callsigns over and over and over, hoping to override the others and get a call back from FT5ZM. Maybe it`s on 18130, but just not audible here; occasionally someone comes on 18130 with quick comments, such as ``this is a total soup`` at 1433; ``working up`` at 1444. Still nothing audible on 18130 at 1505, but now at 1506, there are pileups too on 18145. *Never* in all of this do I ever hear the call FT5ZM mentioned; it`s ``understood``.
Anyhow I definitely heard it yesterday on 20m. Looking thru the DXpedition website, finally found a map on the very last of the 28 slides, showing two operating locations: on west part of island at 37-48 S, 77-32E; and on the NE coast at 37-47 S, 77-34 E.
City-to-city distance calculator doesn`t fail to connect Enid with Amsterdam I., at 19601 km = 12180 statute miles = 10584 nautical miles. The exact antipodes is the middle of Prowers County in SE Colorado, nearest town Lamar. Reception could be great there with antipodal focusing, but there still has to be propagation from some direxion (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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