Some incredible scores on the "real" 3830. Heard some of the boys say that
this was the best conditions ever. Not from my point of view. As a matter
of fact, no where near last year's CW.
The noise was S9+ on 160 and 80 Friday night. And Saturday night it was
very difficult to work the Euros, even though they were loud. It was kinda
like one-way skip...I know that's impossible, but W4AN and I talked about
the same thing happening on 80 a few years ago. Maybe there was local QRN
in Europe. Would like to know if W4PA experienced the same thing.
The big bad prop prediction I saw was a bunch of hooey. The highest the A
index got, I think was 16, and that was late Sunday after the "storm" hit.
Now that was interesting....I was running Europe on 10, and S&P'ing with the
2nd radio on 15, when I heard what I thought was line noise...on both
bands. Then at exactly 1645Z, the noise went away, and so did Europe. The
only signals I could hear on ANY band was stateside. Then about in 10
minutes or so, the Euros slowly came back and I was able to run again around
1700Z. Weird, but not a big thing.
K4AB CQWW CW
12 8 7
44 12 31
266 14 53
602 27 79
471 31 85
808 32 85
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2203 124 340 = 2.95M
Not a good effort from me, but it was fun and very interesting...and nothing
broke.
BTW, if anyone is looking to buy a top of the line amp, I would recommend
the ACOM 2000A. Ive had it for a year now of non-stop CQing contesting, and
it doesn't even whimper. It doesn't even get hot.
73,
Larry K4AB
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