I’ll be back out there listening for signals as well. I only hung in there last
night till around 00:30 UT and gave up.
Cecil
K5DL
Sent from my iPad
> On Dec 30, 2021, at 4:25 PM, David Olean <k1whs@metrocast.net> wrote:
>
> Hello Cecil
>
> I'll bet you had a rough time with the QRN between you and the DX!!
>
> I wonder if the QRN dropped off between 0000 and 05;30 UT? When I was on, it
> was bad, but I could get calls after maybe 2 or three repeats of just the
> call. The noise was low in between crashes, so maybe things had improved.
> Looking at the Lightning website, the line of storms looked pretty bad after
> midnight. I was not there earlier to compare things.
>
> Looking at tonight, the storms are centered in GA and SC, so things will be
> bad tonite as well. I will be on again for a bit after about 03:00.
>
>> On 12/30/2021 4:30 PM, Cecil acuff wrote:
>>
>> I listened around at 00:00 UT up around 1830 and the static crashes from the
>> storms in the upper Midwest was covering anything that might have been on
>> the band. S9+10 on my RX loop.
>>
>> Cecil
>> K5DL
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>>> On Dec 30, 2021, at 3:16 PM, David Olean <k1whs@metrocast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I managed to get on 160 CW starting at 05:30 UT and figured I might catch
>>> a few early risers on the "Continent". I was quite surprised at the level
>>> of activity. I did not hear many stateside callers, but I was busy for a
>>> few hours up until just about Sunrise in Europe. No exotic DX worked, but I
>>> managed a number of contacts with new stations for me. As I was getting
>>> close to EU Sunrise, I also got a call from ZL1AZ. He was good copy on my
>>> Europe beverage wire, and was 579 when I picked a wire that was aimed the
>>> other way. He peaked at 290 degrees, so the path was skewed northward a
>>> bit.
>>>
>>> I tried a little FT8 near EU Sunrise and set power at 5 watts. I worked two
>>> stations in Spain. That was not much fun, so back on CW after only a few
>>> minutes, and worked a few more in Britain, Norway and Sweden as daylight
>>> was spreading across the mainland. I managed to not work G3YRO, but I
>>> wanted to let him know that I did make an appearance on the Wednesday
>>> Activity Night! I had lots of QRN nearby, which made copy poor as I would
>>> miss several letters at a time. I am also finding that my CW is getting
>>> worse as my hands suffer from tremors. It is starting to ruin my already
>>> bad fist!!
>>>
>>> 73
>>>
>>> Dave K1WHS
>>>
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