Hello Tim,
I have the same problem here in Europe. Everybody making a zoo on the usual transponder and nobody on the qrp transponder. Calling cq during the entire pass and all I heard was myself with amazing signals with only 2 watts on the uplink. Maybe some operators in Europe read this and use the qrp transponder while it is on.
73, ON4HF.
Eric Knaps Waterstraat 30 B-3980 Tessenderlo Belgium
Tel. +32472985876 (mobile)
Tim - N3TL schreef:
In case anyone at all is interested - which doesn't appear to be the case - the QRP pair on AO-51 remains active at 145.880 up and 435.150 (+/- Doppler) down.
From here, it's a shame to hear the chaos on the other V/U frequency pair, but not have a single station respond to calls on the QRP pair during a 54-degree pass up the east coast of North America. This has proven to be the case on multiple passes this week.
Maybe someone will show up later tonight or in the morning. Or ... I'll keep talking to myself .... hihi.
73 to all,
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