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General Category => Amateur Radio => Topic started by: Robot Matrix on March 01, 2025, 0525 UTC
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This just floors me that I can hear someone in the Caribbean making contacts after 11pm local... 0521 UTC 3/1/25. The band is dead other than 3 people right now. As far as I know, they're running 1000W on a 5 element beam. Still, that's impressive this time of night.
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The ARRL International DX contest is this weekend. So stations participating in the contest will be transmitting late into the nite, band propagation permitting. PJ2T is an amateur radio DX contest club station located on oceanfront property on the coast of Curacao. They have towers of 100, 80, and 54 feet, stacked monobanders on 10 meters, multiple long-boom monoband yagis on 15 and 20 meters , a 40 meter yagi at 104 feet, and a hilltop European tribander, PJ2T can split power and simultaneously beam toward Europe and the U.S. using a 4O3A high power triplexer and StackMatch boxes. Wire beams, Beverage antennas and an RX four square serve on the low bands. Propagation from Curacao is almost magical. Located at 12 degrees north latitude, within the well-documented "equatorial anomaly" of 10 to 15 degrees above the equator, this is one of the best contesting locations in the world, especially for the ARRL DX contests. (Source QRZ.COM)
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lol... I got that guy on 10 meters over the weekend.
PJ2T... on 3/1/25 @ 19:14 on 28.330
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Even if upper-HF looks deserted, consider occasionally checking the spectrum right above 11m CB at night. Sometimes it is just Caribbean ops working each other, but many of them are running serious power with directional antennas.