H40GJ 6M In the Log!

[Charlie Young]

The condx today are tough.  It has been last fall since we worked EME and I had to do a memory refresh on the setup and procedures.   Managed to do it without a screwup,  This took twice as long as normal.  My cognition is slower than usual due to brain fog.   Still, we managed to pull it off.  It felt like an uphill battle with condx and brain fog 🙂.   

My antenna seems to function OK . We seem to be heard and hear, that is about all one can ask.

We had many periods of no decodes.   As I was winding down a couple of decodes came through and W8IW managed to slip in a QSO.  He hit the condx just right and had an easier time than I did.   Congratulations on the new one David.  

After breakfast tomorrow we will check condx  and some others might get lucky.  The best condx are later this week/weekend. 

The bandaged up antenna did the job! 

73 Charlie N8RR

[Larry Fravel]

Congratz Charlie and Dave.  Good to see you both in the log!

73  Larry K8YYY

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[Clark L. Stewart]

Charlie,

You did EXTREMELY well to make TWO EME QSO's with Lance yesterday.  He only managed to work 10 new stations yesterday.  Lance heard many people but only a very few heard him.  In his post below it is amazing to note that in TWO HOURS of trying, the SuperStation of HB9Q was unable to hear Lance at any polarization angle! 

Well done!

On 8/19/2025 2:11 AM, Lance W7GJ wrote:

Today's Degradation was the highest during the DXpedition. This was partially responsible for the fact that only 10 new stations were contacted today, bringing the total so far to 92. 

The other issue appears to be the high TEC which forms after daylight hours over this area.  An overview of this phenomenon is graphically shown here: https://www.sws.bom.gov.au/HF_Systems/6/5   I had initially thought that elevating the antenna and beaming up through this section of the ionosphere would overcome any interference from it. However, today's moon pass provided a much different  experience. The many stations who were received here in Temotu Province were unable to receive my signals. Two hours of testing this afternoon with HB9Q demonstrated how consistent his signal was off the moon here but he was unable to receive any signal from me at all at any polarization angle. This suggests a type of truly "one way" propagation on EME that I know I have never run into anywhere I have gone before. Granted, I always tried to time my EME trips to take advantage of night time operation, and I did that for this trip too.  However, the first week of the trip, during which the moon was up was all during the night, was spent stranded in Honiara because of two canceled flights to Temotu Province. The result is that there will only be a couple more days with only moonrises during local darkness.  We will see if the upcoming daytime operations mirror those experienced today.

73, Clark, W8TN