yeh i remember working that station on 20 early last winter as well.

73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 6:52 PM
Subject: Special Event Call Signs


> Ain't those 1 by 1 call signs used for special events fun to work?  I 
> don't
> know why but I always enjoy working those, too.  I heard a European for
> awhile last winter on 30 meters and his call was LX1000 and another letter
> or two as a suffix.  I forget what the whole call was now but it had the
> number 1000 in it.  I really have fun working even the special call signs 
> in
> Canada and just about anywhere.  Of course, The royal family of Jordan 
> used
> to use J1 J2 J3 and so on and those were fun to work back in the early
> eighties when they were active on sideband.  J1 of course, was King 
> Hussein.
> That isn't how you spell it, I don't think, but you know, the same middle
> name our president has.
>
> Phil.
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>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Albert Sanchez" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 5:55 PM
> Subject: Re: Band Conditions
>
>
>> Hi All
>> I worked w 0 O Special event station from Frankenstine MO on 7045 at 1800
>> EDT tonight, weak but readable.
>> 73, Albert, W A 7 F X B / 4
>> Greenville NC
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "tom behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 7:19 PM
>> Subject: Re: Band Conditions
>>
>>
>>>    Phil:
>>>
>>> Well, if we hang in there, increased solar activity will come.
>>>
>>> We just happen to be at the bottom of the cycle still, and, as far as I
>>> can
>>> remember, the bottom of this cycle has been especially long.
>>>
>>> Maybe that will mean the peak will be long too.
>>>
>>> Here's hoping!
>>>
>>> 73 from Tom NBehler:  KB8TYJ
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 5:10 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Band Conditions
>>>
>>>
>>> It sure sounds like something like a flare but I don't follow the 
>>> reports
>>> like I used to.  I just tune the bands, check the beacon frequencies, 
>>> and
>>> can easily tell what's going on with most of the bands that way.  I got
>>> my
>>> novice and general about 6 months apart back in 1966.  Early in 1967, I
>>> started getting on 20, 15, and 10 meters.  Man, I worked thousands,
>>> literally, thousands of DX stations that last half of the sixties just
>>> running about 150 watts output with my Drake TR4, wire antennas, and a
>>> little 3 element tri bander at 28 feet on the roof.  In the early
>>> eighties,
>>> I had a 4 element 20 meter beam only at 40 feet but in one year, mixing
>>> sideband and CW together on 20 meters, and running 700 watts output with
>>> an
>>> old Heathkit Warrior, 4 811A amp, I worked 295 countries just in that 
>>> one
>>> year on that one band.  Worked 20 meter long path every morning and got
>>> Russians and Europeans giving me literally 50 over S9 reports at times.
>>> That was back in the days you had to work around the wood pecker, too.
>>> Then
>>> in the early nineties, with my 2 element 40 meter beam at 70 feet, and
>>> running 1,000 watts output, I worked stuff on 40 I never knew was
>>> possible.
>>> First Russian sideband signal I work during a CQ Worldwide phone contest
>>> was
>>> literally 40 over 9.  I actually checked my band switch because I 
>>> thought
>>> I
>>> was on 20 instead by mistake, haw.  These kind of conditions makes the 
>>> HF
>>> ham dream of more sunspot activity; lots more.
>>>
>>> Phil.
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>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "tom behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:43 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Band Conditions
>>>
>>>
>>>>    Hey, Phil:
>>>>
>>>> That's interesting.  At first, I thought the snow did in my dipole, but
>>>> my
>>>> swr's are still good.  Wonder if there was a solar flare or something.
>>>>
>>>> The bands really shouldn't be this crappy, given what people have been
>>>> telling me over the last few days.
>>>>
>>>> 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:42 PM
>>>> Subject: Band Conditions
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tuned 17 meters mid morning and copied some side band activity, nothing
>>>> strong, and heard a few CW signals including a couple of weak Europeans
>>>> and
>>>> a few stateside signals.  By afternoon, every band I tuned was terribly
>>>> weak.  I normally, no matter how bad the conditions are, hear at least
>>>> one
>>>> or two S9 signals at the least.  Not today; all day.
>>>>
>>>> Phil.
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>>>>
>>