I listened for him around 14.060 and other's in the same area for
about four hours. Towards the beginning I was checking Email and
saw the "I am on now" message, rushed into the living room where the
monitor receiver was cranking out a STONG signal right on spot, hung
my toe in a power cable and abruptly "terminated contact". When I
got things sorted out the signal was gone. I heard weak stations
from 14.058 up into the RTTY field which here starts at 14.060. Much
of the time there was RTTY on 14.062 and 14.064. A number of CW
signals were heard down around 14.058, but no Alaska callsigns.
I could monitor, but not work W6's, UA's, J's and even a nice
signal with a Maldive's callsign. I called CQ on some blank frequencies
down around 14.058 many times with no answers.
Strange thing is that after local dark, when you would expect a lousy
band to close, it openned like crazy! The Russians were pounding in
along with South Korea and more Japanese stations than you could shake
a stick at. They were working mostly people in 6 and 7 land which were
also strong.
It is 20:00 Zulu (we do HST all year long so we have to recompute the
diffence to all the other time zones twice a year, HST is always Zulu
minus 10 hours), I am going to have another go for a few hours with
my current "best" antenna.
AH7R
grid BL11CH
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