I seem to have missed you last night, Roger. I was QRV, but took time
out to work on an old boat anchor receiver. It has a very obtuse problem
and it took awhile to figure out. I was on early, around 0000 UT and
then later on the two hours before your sun rise. All signals were down
from what I would call "good". Still there were stations to work. I
worked a few Gs, SM, F, and others. Early in the evening there were a
few UA stations on and they were calling KK1CWO on Cape Cod. The
signals were generally weak last night. QSB would take some stations
down into the noise. Stations that might go over S9 on a good night,
were running S6 or S7 at best. The good news was that I found a pesky
problem in the receiver. It was a bad silver mica capacitor in one of
the rf coil sections.
Dave K1WHS
On 1/16/2020 4:00 PM, Roger Kennedy wrote:
Well sadly conditions seemed very poor last night . . .
My own signals were 20 to 30dB down on what I would normally see on NA RBN
sites
I managed just 4 NA QSOs . . . but heard several other people calling me
that were way down in the noise.
Not sure how many stations were on across the pond, but heard lots of other
EU stations calling CQ, but getting few replies.
Thanks to all those that made the effort to come on the band . . . let's
hope conditions are better next Wednesday !
73 Roger G3YRO
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