[SEDXC] Hello from Mozambique......

[Tad Williamson]

The static here is monsterous!!!!

It's like nothing I've ever heard.


·         If normal static is constant, granular and  sand-grain size, the
static  here is constant and a mix of fist-sized rocks and bread-box sized
rocks with the occasional Volkswagon sized boulder thrown in.

·         For the low-banders, another anology would be to think of the
occasional static crash you are used to hearing, but instead it is one
long, long, continuous, static crash.

·         The signals are there, but you can only hear part of a character
(not part of a call) most of the time.  I had the filters all off and was
using the RF gain control to reduce the noise and listen long and hard to
pull stations out.

·         I video’ed the S meter twice.  The first time it was jumping
between S5 and S9 +.  The second time it was a constant S9 plus a little.



I worked 5 Europeans and 3 US stations during my 4 hour shift from Midnight
to 4 a.m. this morning.  I was on 80 CW using the Titanex.  I would have
been on 160, but we couldn't get the Titanex working there and we were not
going out in the 50 km/hour winds in the middle of the night to the beach.



They have the switchbox on the Titanex repaired for now and I plan to be on
160 from about 6 p.m. easterntime until 10 p.m. (that's my shift).  I
suspect if everything is working good the 4 hour shift after mine will work
160 as well.   With this noise, I can make no promises, but I will do my
best to dig anything I hear out.



73, Tad, WF4W



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"What a long, strange trip it's been"

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