Monday, May 07, 2012

12M into Japan


Whilst tuning around the HF bands over the weekend I found myself up on 12 meters listening to a nice signal coming in well on my trusty YAESU FT1000MP MKV transceiver and Carolina Windom antenna.
The signal I was hearing at 5/9 was Joe - JA1LZR( Japan), on his FT-5000 and 4Element SteppIR. JA1LZR is located at a short path distance of 5757.4 miles away.


Joe was running 1KW and came back to me after my first call giving me a 5/9 report back. I enjoyed the short rag chew with Joe very much, it was a great 1st QSO with JA1LZR as well as my first 12m QSO into Japan so far this year.
I hope to catch Joe - JA1LZR again soon on another band, with a bit of luck and good propagation it shouldn't be too difficult. Happy DX & 73!
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2 comments:

PE4BAS, Bas said...

Yep, 12m can be very surprising sometimes. Hope to work Japan on 12m as well some time. 73, Bas

11:51 am
Unknown said...

Hi, Simon. This is nash, JN4VWH writing from Japan.
Congratulation! for your QSO with JA! Nice, Simon.

4:40 pm

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