Aloha Bjorn.
Heard you calling cq 1833.7 this morning starting at 1450Z. signals weak
about 449 on peaks, a lot of slow QSB.
Heard you on and off and past my sunrise 1710Z peaking about 559.
Signals not as good as previous days but quite good for low power.
Great job, hang in there, the west coast was hearing you at 1500Z but too
weak for QSO so hang in there. Condx may improve.
73 Merv K9FD/KH6
Here is another update from 8Q7BM;
Wednesday evening FT5ZM started so I moved away from 23.7 to 33.7. I was
calling from about 1430 and on. Heard OH5KW 579 during the evening and logged
VK3EW and A45XR. Other than that it was FT5ZM and their weak pileup heard here.
On Thursday morning I started well ahead of my SR (at Wed 2315). I heard SM,
OH, DL and OM stations around 539 in the FT5ZM pileup, but no luck hooking any
of them on 33.7.
At 0003 Thursday morning my PSU blew up. Fortunately I brought a spare as I don’t really
trust the cheap Asian switch mode supplies. They are handy to carry, but they fail. This is my
second of the same brand and model failing. I am now using a small “Gamma HPS-1a” PSU.
It is minimalistic and I hope it will take the beating and survives to the end.
Thursday evening there was no activity as we were celebrating my girlfriend's
birthday with a many course fine dinner at the fancy hangout on the island.
On Friday morning I heard LA1MFA call CQ and tried unsuccessfully to get though
to him. Back on 33.7 LA1U called me a few minutes later and and got logged at
2335. After this nothing heard and nothing worked until my SR.
I will be back tonight again then In my SR tomorrow. Look for me on 1833.7 +/-
QRM.
73 de Björn,
SM0MDG
8Q7BM
SE0X
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