I’m also a member of the Northern California DX Club and PSK31 gets discussed from time to time. I wonder what kind of stir a PSK31-exclusive DXpedition to a rare one would cause? ;>)
- 73 de Mike, K6MKF
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Subject: RE: [070] Discussion Topic: What's your rarest confirmed PSK31 DX contact?
The somewhat unusual thing is that although I chase DX on anything from CW to JT65, those two entities I've worked ONLY on PSK31. :-)
On a related note, I've never understood why more DXpeditions don't try PSK63 - it's at least as fast as RTTY (I'm pretty sure faster), but much more robust for weak signals on both ends.
--mark/K0ABC
--- On Fri, 5/18/12, Mike Flowers <mike.flowers@... <mailto:mike.flowers%40gmail.com> > wrote:
From: Mike Flowers <mike.flowers@... <mailto:mike.flowers%40gmail.com> >
Subject: RE: [070] Discussion Topic: What's your rarest confirmed PSK31 DX contact?
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Date: Friday, May 18, 2012, 10:14 AM
These are truly rare ones, Mark!!
- 73 de Mike, K6MKF
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Nice catch!! The occasional times I could hear Trevor on any mode here he was always swamped with a pileup.
For me it's probably either 3D20CR (Conway Reef), which started messing around with PSK a little on their last few days, or H40FK (Temotu).
But I haven't been at this nearly as long as some folks, so I imagine there have been some really rare ones on in years past.
--mark/K0ABC
--- On Fri, 5/18/12, Mike Flowers <mike.flowers@... <mailto:mike.flowers%40gmail.com> <mailto:mike.flowers%40gmail.com> > wrote:
From: Mike Flowers <mike.flowers@... <mailto:mike.flowers%40gmail.com> <mailto:mike.flowers%40gmail.com> >
Subject: [070] Discussion Topic: What's your rarest confirmed PSK31 DX contact?
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Date: Friday, May 18, 2012, 9:40 AM
Hi Gang,
For me, it's got to be AX/VK0TH, Trevor, on Macquarie Island. I had my
tower and beam down at the time, and worked him with 20W on 20M with a
sloping dipole. I just got his card back from the ARRL card checker and
thought I'd toss this question out there.
What's your rarest confirmed PSK31 DX contact?
- 73 de Mike, K6MKF
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