In spite of a bad cold I stayed up on 31 December to see if 160m would be
anything like what was reported for the previous evening which I had missed.
Apparently it was not quite a good as on the 30th. I started hearing European
stations about 0500z - the first time this season. Worked HB9ATA at 0503z. In
all I heard 7 European stations, one qso, 3 spotted that I did not hear.
Werner takes the cake for the best ears - on the others I got either a qrz? or
nothing. A temporary 500' Beverage in our front horse pastures (full of snow
now)
helped the rx, and low noise. On the tx side I cant improve over 1.5 kw, a
90' top loaded vertical and lots of radials - unless I moved to AZ or UT to
join
N7DD and N7JW who get out very well. The auroral path this far north is a
problem but no cure for that except to do lots of listening and not as much
sleep. 73 Bob W7LR in MT.
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