Topband: Delaware report -- Monday morning

[Jon Zaimes AA1K]

0925z found me in the shack on 3 hours sleep....the ZL digi on 1818.5 was coming through, and VK3ZL answered my CQ a few minutes later. Bob's signal seemed about equal from NW, W and SW -- with a slight peak from SW, or perhaps just lower noise level that direction.

0947z brought DU9/N0NM in from the NW. Jon was just firing up, CQ'ing on 1828.3, QSX up 2. Signal was much weaker than previous two days -- and band noise higher --  but could copy OK and called to no avail till about 1015z when he was pretty much in the noise -- could hear him in there but no real copy most of the time after 1015z. Occassionally a character or two would bounce out of the noise, then right back down. 

No sunrise peak for Jon here but JA8ISU did peak nicely 579 and was in for 5 or 10 minutes and we made a quick QSO at 1038z with Kaz.

10 minutes past SR we were still copying VK3ZL, now solid due West.

73/Jon AA1K