Hi Paul,
did you see this:
February 3, 2018, 2000 UTC: During the last 72 hours, we continued to experience the high winds, low clouds, fog and rough seas that have prevented helicopter operations since our arrival at Bouvet. No improvement was predicted in the weather forecast for the next four days. Then, last night, an issue developed in one of the ship’s engines.
This morning, the captain of the vessel declared it unsafe to continue with our project and aborted the DXpedition. We are now on our long voyage back to Punta Arenas. As you might imagine, the team is deeply disappointed, but safe. There is already talk about rescheduling the DXpedition,
Bob, K4UEE
Ralph, KØIR
Erling, LA6VM
Bad Luck
73 Joe
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Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von N1BUG
Gesendet: Sonntag, 4. Februar 2018 11:47
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: LF: MF/630M
Just think how many trans-Atlantic QSOs could be made. Some, like myself are very interested but the primary problem is no one awake on the east side of the pond at the right times!
I have seen signals strong enough for normal CW only a few times.
JT9 would be easy and requires only about 3 dB more signal to decode than WSPR2. I am looking for information on QSO operating procedures for QRSS. I have only seen it used for beaconing.
I've been off MF for a while as I put up a temporary HF antenna to work the Bouvet DXpedition and it severely messed up tuning of the MF antenna. Now that the Bouvet trip has been aborted I will be taking that antenna down and returning to MF as soon as I get a reasonable weather window. I will likely be on MF for a week or so before moving to LF.
73,
Paul N1BUG
On 02/04/2018 05:05 AM, mal hamilton wrote:
> Last nite results good but not unusual, had reports from
>
> AA1A, KA1R, VE1YY
>
> Transatlantic contacts seem a regular occurrence at present on MF
> between the UK and N.America
>
> Most operators are using WSPR but more CW both normal and QRSS would
> be welcome like it used to be some years ago, ie real QSO mode
>
> 73 de mal/g3kev/io94sh
