The recent FT4TA DXpedition was ongoing the last ten days and many of you had a shot at a new DXCC country and I hope you did well, as usual the normal jammers and just poor operating of others made it a tough one. As you know by now I live in the North Western US and for us that part of the world is tough anyway. It seemed to me that the team at FT4TA was not doing the best job to observe band openings and times of day to work some areas of the world.
I found this on DX WORLD, worth a read explains much http://www.dx-world.net/the-aftermath/
Well enough said about that and I did not work them, tried a few times but only did hear them a couple of times good enough to call, so I truly hope you did well with them.
But on another note that was great fun....yesterday afternoon (11-10-2014) there was a rare 6M opening from the west coast to KH6, and for some ZL and VK, what a treat. Just happened to come in the shack and check spots to see the opening, with my big 100w and 3 ele at 15 feet works several KH6 stations. First time for KH6 in about 24 years on 6M it was great fun.
Not only are November 6M openings rare here , 6M DX openings are very very rare. I did see this opening extended in to the Midwest US and some W6 stations worked ZL and VK stations. Once again making the magic band magic !!
This weekend will be ARRL SS SSB contest not a favorite of mine but no doubt I will be looking for that elusive clean sweep again....Some photos below one of VHF map during the KH6 opening and one of me with a smile after enjoying several DX 6M contacts,
Get on enjoy what you have and have fun ....best 73 Jim K7JAN
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