I am here in Brittany France and have a small set up next to the sea for a
couple of weeks. It is an inverted vee only about 30 ft up in a tree but
its less than 100 yards to the ocean with a clear shot to W/VE. I decided
to listen in on 40M SSB from 04 - 06Z and see how the USA and VE boys were
coming through. Note - I only have a key with me so no QSOs were made.
The following is the PEAK signal heard during the time period. I swept the
band from 7230 - 7125 many times in the 2 hours. If you were CQing during
that time and are a W/VE and are not on my list, you are not effective in
Europe on 40M during this prime time. Note that I did not sweep 7125 - 7050
so I did not hear many VEs.
One thing that I noticed is that much of the Ws that I heard had a lot of
QSB over the period. Sometimes well over S9 - sometimes S7. The W1s were
the most consistent. But even they had QSB. One exception of consistency
outside of W1 was KD4D who was virtually the loudest station other than
KC1XX and had less QSB than any other non-W1 station. Very FB!
KC1XX +20 - 30dB
KD4D +20 - 30dB
K1DG +15 - 20dB
KE3X +15dB (a lot of QSB sometimes S7)
N1BA +10 - 15dB
K3RA +10 - 15dB (a Lot of QSB sometimes S8)
W1WMU +10 - 15dB
WX3B +5 - 10dB
K5ZD +5 - 10dB
W9RE +5dB
K3CR +5dB (QSB to S7)
NR3X +5dB (QSB to S7)
W1UE S9
NA8V S9
KA8G S9
VA2EW S9
K5WA S8
Note that I had no preamp on and had a S0 - S1 noise floor with these
signals. They were VERY easy copy. WAE is not too crowded vs some of the
other contests.
Feel free to ask me about your signal off list.
73
Ed F/N1UR
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