[600MRG] 630m operating event report, S. AZ

[John Langridge]

Thanks Steve - thats a good list.

I thought it was actually a great night after the band settled down
here around 0200z.  The VE's had more consistent signals in the late
evening than I have ever heard them in these events, making cross band
Q's pretty easy by 0400 and 0500z...

I had three QSO's with other experimental stations and a slew of
reports of my CW and JT9 calls.. by 0500z I was pretty loopy and began
doing shout-outs on CW between my CQ's....hopefully it was
entertaining to someone besides me HI.

Im starting to put my activity and the reports that other ops have
sent together into today's summary.  I expect its going to take all
day.. but I had a blast and I think a lot of other guys did as well.
It sure seemed like activity grew significantly from the November
event and even the 1st annual midwinter activity night last
February...

73,

John KB5NJD / WG2XIQ..

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 11:21 PM, Steve Ratzlaff <ratzlaffsteve at gmail.com> wrote:
> Band is very noisy tonight with static and general band noise, so not the
> best of conditions. But I heard most of the listed folks, some at good
> levels, some just partial copy above the noise.
>
> Steve AA7U
>
> near Sahuarita, AZ
>
> R75; 750' N/S longwire best for all these 630m stations.
>
> (470.0 WG2XSV not heard. Poor freq choice since AMBC intermod appears on
> these 10kc channels (450, 460, 470, etc.) Even a slight 100 Hz up or down
> freq change would get away from the intermod. On the SDR I can see several
> carriers on 470.0; no sign of any CW.)
>
> 471.0 WD2XSH/20  of N6LF 0316 utc, strong signal
>
> 473.0 VE7SL 0215 utc and after, weak signal, best signal by far of the west
> coast Canadians.
>
> 474.0 VE7BDQ 0352 utc, poor
>
> 474.5 WG2XIQ of KB5NJD 0320 utc, medium
>
> 475.0 CF7MM 0406 utc, very poor/poor, fades up now and then, got call sign
> several times.
>
> (475.67 WH2XXP near Reno, NV, not in the 630m event but sending wspr with
> single CW ident at end--extremely strong S5 level, can't miss him when
> tuning the band, when he's transmitting.)
>
> 476.5 CG7CNF 0219 utc, very poor
>
> 477.0 VE3OT 0343 utc, nice fade up briefly, very poor
>
> (477.7 VO1NA, no sign, didn't really expect to hear him!)
>
> 479.9 WA2XRM of W0RW, first noted at 0358 very poor but faded up to good
> signal by 0419 utc.
>
>
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