My apologies for having to duck out again while being
heard in North America.
Things started out great at 2200. The band was the
quietest it has been since I received the gift of a
KD9SV preamp recently. It was the first time that I
was able to hear signals on the pennant with the
preamp switched in that I couldn't hear without it. I
worked 12 JA's in a brief period. The preamplifier was
very beneficial for about 30 minutes.
I initially thought I was going to have a great
session. I began to hear NA stations at 2238.
Unfortunately, I also began to hear some QRN building
up about the same time. By 2300 UTC copy was getting
very difficult. I worked KD9SV at that time, and it
had been seven minutes since my previous contact.
After a very great struggle, I logged W4ZV about seven
minutes later. I barely copied him in the QRN. I
couldn't copy anyone at all in the QRN after that, so
I had to QRT.
I'm a US Government employee, so tomorrow is a
holiday. Since I don't have to get up early tomorrow,
I'll try again tonight.
The NA stations I logged with progressively increasing
difficulty last night as the the QRN devil arose from
the depths were: NO8D, VE3ZI, AJ3K, KD9SV and W4ZV. I
thought I heard a K4LD, but I was unable to complete a
contact with him before he disappeared into the noise.
73,
Charles - S9SS
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