TopBand: XV7SW Progress Rprt III

[Rolf T Salme]

Hi Fans,

Luckily for you, I woke up unexplicably at 3 AM local time this morning and 
couldn't sleep, so I went over to the shack and top band. And right away at 
2022z, the skies opened! I have never heard EU so loud before. Adding ZL4WA 
and VQ9VK from yesterday evening, I was quite happy with the catch:

OE5JDL IV3PRK SP5GRM DJ7RD DK0EE DL6ET DL3KDV OM5ZM DJ8MTP DL0TU SP5CTY DJ2YA 
DL4MDO DK6AH DK4RM DL1YD ON7EM DL1RWN RK3PA DJ9KG SP5EWY SP5INQ DJ8WL HA0DU 
LY2ZZ IK6DLK DF9TF IT9ZGY DJ7MI SP5ZR UA4UDF DK4WA DL4CF SP8FHM OK2FB DF0WE 
SP6CT F5LGE OK2HI UA9CDV DK8ZB ON4UN? DL7MAE DF9ZW? (plus UA0ACG and RA4NW at 
sunrise)

I felt like I was S21XX. Towards the end, the band died very quickly, so I 
was uncertain that I actually worked DF9ZW - and ON4UN of all people!

And here is a message for the Beverage Lobby. Calm down, comrades, I am 
thinking: should I put the Beverage to the left of the bicycle repair shop or 
should I pull it straight through the Binh Min Noodle Restaurant? Yes, I 
think I can hire the place for a couple of hours every day for temporary 
installations. But, alas, no. It might turn out to be very expensive. You 
see, Vietnamese people have a funny habit of just _eating_ peacefully when 
there is Grayline propagation. Nguyen Mur Phy is grinning at me again.

On the other hand, I did wake up when there was RF in the air!

73 de
Rolf
XV7SW


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