Topband: Protecting RX input & FK8CP this morning

[Barry N1EU]

On 4/4/07, Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have been chasing FK8CP since he returned to top band. I have
> heard him a number of times, almost always with a sharp 2 or 3
> minute peak about 5 to 15 minutes before my local sunrise. That
> seems somewhat unusual but there has been a definite pattern to it.
> This morning timing and luck were on my side! Remi came on the band
> just at the start of my short peak (or was I just not hearing him
> before the peak?)


That has been my experience as well.  I listened for about 10 minutes this
morning while I had partial copy and then there was about a +2 S unit peak
with solid copy 10 minutes before sunrise here.

73,
Barry N1EU