Great to hear/work you from the mobile while I'm in TX. Will likely head back
for GA tomorrow. If I get out of TX before the end of the contest, I'll switch
to a club call for Louisiana, and something else if we get to MS as well.
tnx
Mike
On Apr 27, 2013, at 10:47 PM, John T Laney III <k4bai at att.net> wrote:
> Hello all: In for the night. Start again at 8 AM and go until 6 PM
> tomorrow. Been a lot of fun with Jerry, K5YAA. Thanks for QSOs from K1ZZI,
> N4PN, K4AMA, W4NZ, N4JF, ND4V, W5JR/m (in TX) and others. Band conditions
> were pretty poor at the start at 17Z today, but picked up. 20M has been the
> workhorse. We tried 40 during the day, but got no calls at all. 15M has
> been fair to Europe and parts of the US. We have worked most of the US and
> Canada on 20 plus a lot of Europe, Caribbean, northern South America and
> KH6LC. On 40, we have worked from coast to coast US and Canada, plus a lot
> of Europe as far as UA3AGW and some Caribbean. We have gone to SSB on most
> requests and have called CQ there a lot. We have a number of QSOs on 20M SSB
> including OE3K and HI3TT, but only KU8E on 40 Phone. No one has asked for
> ten Meters and we have been too busy to go fishing there. Our goal of 3000
> QSOs seems unlikely as we have about 1240 QSOs now. We hope for more than
> that tomorrow. We will be mostly on interstates tomrrow. We will start in
> Ocala and go south on I75 to near Tampa, on I-4 to I-95 near the east coast
> and back up to I-10 at Jax and hope to end up up in or near Talahassee where
> my car should be waiting.
>
> We have had some equipment issues and both of us are having problems with the
> logging program. Jerry probably won't use this logging program again. The
> T/R relay in the AL811H has become intermittent on return to receive and
> sometimes we don't have a receive antenna when we are listening. So, please
> forgive us. With power line noise and road noise, it has been hard to pull
> out the weaker signals with an antenna connected to the K3. The T/R switch
> settled down and we had no problems with it the last hour or so, so maybe it
> will be OK tomorrow.
>
> Hope all of you can join in the FQP fun tomorrow. 73, John, K4BAI.
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