Topband: FT5XO Last Nite

[W8AV@aol.com]

Got a chance to finally listen for FT5XO last nite.  Started to hear him 
about 0125Z (about 10 minutes after K8MFO called me  to tell me that he was 
beginning to hear him).  He was strongest on my east beverage, solidly above the 
noise level.  Right after I started hearing him well something electrical in my 
neighborhood started up, generating an S-9 buzz on all the beverages which 
totally wiped his signal out.  Fortunately I began to hear him on my quarterwave 
vertical antenna at about 0135 and by 0139 he was again full copy when I worked 
him.  Worked him on 80 an hour earlier with deep QSB on his signal.

73.........de Goose, W8AV