Hello Cecil
I'll bet you had a rough time with the QRN between you and the DX!!
I wonder if the QRN dropped off between 0000 and 05;30 UT? When I was
on, it was bad, but I could get calls after maybe 2 or three repeats of
just the call. The noise was low in between crashes, so maybe things
had improved. Looking at the Lightning website, the line of storms
looked pretty bad after midnight. I was not there earlier to compare
things.
Looking at tonight, the storms are centered in GA and SC, so things will
be bad tonite as well. I will be on again for a bit after about 03:00.
On 12/30/2021 4:30 PM, Cecil acuff wrote:
I listened around at 00:00 UT up around 1830 and the static crashes from the
storms in the upper Midwest was covering anything that might have been on the
band. S9+10 on my RX loop.
Cecil
K5DL
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On Dec 30, 2021, at 3:16 PM, David Olean <k1...@metrocast.net> wrote:
I managed to get on 160 CW starting at 05:30 UT and figured I might catch a few early
risers on the "Continent". I was quite surprised at the level of activity. I
did not hear many stateside callers, but I was busy for a few hours up until just about
Sunrise in Europe. No exotic DX worked, but I managed a number of contacts with new
stations for me. As I was getting close to EU Sunrise, I also got a call from ZL1AZ. He
was good copy on my Europe beverage wire, and was 579 when I picked a wire that was aimed
the other way. He peaked at 290 degrees, so the path was skewed northward a bit.
I tried a little FT8 near EU Sunrise and set power at 5 watts. I worked two
stations in Spain. That was not much fun, so back on CW after only a few
minutes, and worked a few more in Britain, Norway and Sweden as daylight was
spreading across the mainland. I managed to not work G3YRO, but I wanted to
let him know that I did make an appearance on the Wednesday Activity Night! I
had lots of QRN nearby, which made copy poor as I would miss several letters at
a time. I am also finding that my CW is getting worse as my hands suffer from
tremors. It is starting to ruin my already bad fist!!
73
Dave K1WHS
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