YEMEN!!

[WA6MHZ]

Another night spent from 5PM till 9 PM waiting and waiting and getting SKUNKED. No copy WHATSOEVER last night, anywhere!

[KB1UJS]

Got them on 20 meters ssb last night. They were loud here - close to 59 - at 8 pm local here in Maine. Took only a few calls.

You can hear the tiredness in the operators' voices at this point - probably a good thing they're rotating in fresh operators. I know they're trying hard to get you 6s and 7s in the log - they are routinely calling for just US West Coast. They're having a bear of a time pulling the few they do hear out of the din.

Ken

[NW9R]

Well, from ME, they would be loud..geeze....straight shot over...

West coast is having a hard time as about when the prop starts to open, they QSY to some dead band and go back to working EU...

Hang in there Pat....
Still time....

[WM3O]

Got them on 20 meters ssb last night. They were loud here - close to 59 - at 8 pm local here in Maine. Took only a few calls.

you got 9M0L too, right?

[WM3O]

Another night spent from 5PM till 9 PM waiting and waiting and getting SKUNKED. No copy WHATSOEVER last night, anywhere!

i could setup a phone patch so you could work them from my QTH...

[N2RJ]

i could setup a phone patch so you could work them from my QTH...

Why even bother. He's going to find another excuse.

[W5BIB]

Another night spent from 5PM till 9 PM waiting and waiting and getting SKUNKED. No copy WHATSOEVER last night, anywhere!

You wanna borrow my CONAR-400 w/7051 xtal / dipole / R390A ??

[WM3O]

Why even bother. He's going to find another excuse.

actually, if someone offered this for 9M0L i would have declined. the goal for me is to see how much i can work from my present QTH and with what antennas. i have a yearly total that has been pretty consistent - some get added to the overall total, but for the most part, i'm around 200 DXCC each year with low antennas and 100w. for me, working within the limitations of my budget (haha) and lot size, i think i'm doing pretty darn well. it's tough having big antennas for the low bands with only 0.07 acres on a pie shaped wedge.

[WB2WIK]

Another night spent from 5PM till 9 PM waiting and waiting and getting SKUNKED. No copy WHATSOEVER last night, anywhere!

I heard them on 20m PH last evening about 5:00 - 6:00 PM local PDT on 14.145. Weak, maybe S2-S3. Weaker than they've been.

Today the effects of the recent huge solar flares are expected to hit Earth, and might wipe stuff out for a while. I guess we'll see.

[KB1UJS]

you got 9M0L too, right?

Nope. I can't remember if I even heard them - didn't spend much time on the radio during that DXped. I hear next to nothing from the Pacific.

Wouldn't have got through the pileups to Yemen without the AL-811H on either. I hadn't set the amp up in my new operating position and the surprise announcement was what exactly what I needed to get that done.

I'm a fairly new ham, as you can probably tell from my call, and I'm learning a lot about propagation by reading other peoples' experiences with 7O6T and other DXpeditions. Thought I'd volunteer some information if someone else was trying to do the same thing.