Propagation and further DX News

[Bekir Kemal Ataman]

I finally managed to contact a US station (KP4BME) yesterday with 10 Watts
on 20 meters. The propagation is just beautiful nowadays.

As for the special event stations I'll be running, the callsigns TC150HP
and TC150DD have been approved. I expect to setup the antenna on Monday and
start calling CQ on Tuesday as TC150HP from Haydar Pasha train station.
I'll be on the air between 30 May and 30 June, mainly after 14:00Z until
the time I get tired or XYL starts shouting on the phone, which ever is
earlier ;-) However I may not be able te get on the air everyday. So, do
look out. I intend to call at frequencies around 7.092 and 14.270, if they
are available, since these are the national calling freq.s I expect to be
on 20 and 40 m mainly but I might give other bands a try, too, to make good
use of the propagation.

I'll probably be using a Yaesu FT-857, since my K2 lacks the 100W option.
However, I am just too fond of the K2, so you never know ;-)

Hope to meet you on the air.

73!
deTA2RX

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Bekir Kemal Ataman
ArchiMac BBS Sysop & Webmaster <http://www.archimac.org/>


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[Bob Nielsen]

On May 26, 2006, at 1:11 PM, Bekir Kemal Ataman wrote:

> I finally managed to contact a US station (KP4BME) yesterday with  
> 10 Watts
> on 20 meters. The propagation is just beautiful nowadays.
>
> As for the special event stations I'll be running, the callsigns  
> TC150HP
> and TC150DD have been approved. I expect to setup the antenna on  
> Monday and
> start calling CQ on Tuesday as TC150HP from Haydar Pasha train  
> station.
> I'll be on the air between 30 May and 30 June, mainly after 14:00Z  
> until
> the time I get tired or XYL starts shouting on the phone, which  
> ever is
> earlier ;-) However I may not be able te get on the air everyday.  
> So, do
> look out. I intend to call at frequencies around 7.092 and 14.270,  
> if they
> are available, since these are the national calling freq.s I expect  
> to be
> on 20 and 40 m mainly but I might give other bands a try, too, to  
> make good
> use of the propagation.
>
> I'll probably be using a Yaesu FT-857, since my K2 lacks the 100W  
> option.
> However, I am just too fond of the K2, so you never know ;-)
>
> Hope to meet you on the air.
>
> 73!
> deTA2RX
>

If there is any way you could activate one of those callsigns over  
the 27-28 May weekend, you could probably make a large number of  
contacts in the WPX-CW contest:

  <http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/WPX%20Contest%20Rules0612705.pdf>

That prefix would be quite popular in this contest.  I operated that  
contest in the QRP category from France two years ago with my K2 and  
a small coil-loaded vertical antenna inside my hotel room.  I had  
limited operating time and didn't make very many contacts (enough to  
receive a certificate however), but it was a lot of fun experiencing  
contesting from a non-US perspective.

73 - Bob, N7XY






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