DX news: KC4AAA Scott Admundsen US base, Antarctica

Hi all,

After one week of everyday trial on the band, I could QSO with Helmut who signs KC4AAA until...yesterday night.
QSO happened at about 20:00z in very tough conditions here : 14.177MHz is noisy here in the evening (S5 noise), and Helmut signal never exceeded S2...

I was everyday in touch with Volker, ZS1Y, and Stan, SQ8AQD. Volker was very helpful in spotting every Helmut's appearance on the air (roughly same hour, same freq), and Stan was helpful in spotting his reports. It seemed that during one week, propagation skip was a lot better to central Europe...
But yesterday evening, it was the first time I Heard KC4AAA so "well" and could make the QSO withc only 100W and the hexbeam ! Stan couldn't hear him...which means propagation was really localized !

That's a new base for me, a new Antarctica "country" base. Hope to get the QSL from K1IED :-)



Thanks again to Volker, Stan and Feco (HA8KW) for their gentle support during this past week.

Ronan

Comments

[Stan SQ8AQD]

Ronan, this was a real pleasure of mine to support you. I'm so so glad you managed to catch him at last - this was the last day of his operation - WOW! :D