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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