Topband: Wednesday 160m DX CW Activity Night

[Gary Smith]

LOL I tried, did work G4EIM & GS8VL but 
then I was hit by a lightning strike with 
no rain at the time. It did a bunch of 
little things but all bad. Lost the USB 
connection on the K3s but had a 
replacement unit from my backup rig, 
replaced that and all is well with the K3, 
I'll send the affected module back to 
Elecraft. lost the powered USB hub 
(replaced today), GPSDO (hate to buy 
another) and lost the LP-100A and the 
sensor for watts/reflect in the P3 but the 
waterfall & all P3 functions are working 
fine still. And... the remote antenna 
switch at the radial plate is fine.

It could have been much worse. I have 
polyphasers in both coax and protection in 
the 50 ohm coax to the HI-Z units which 
are OK, good ground bonding around the 
exterior of the house but it got in 
somehow.

Anyway, I was in the middle of looking for 
your sigs. Hopefully next week!

73,

Gary
KA1J
 


> 
> Well conditions were very poor here last night . . . only worked a
> couple of NA stations . . . and my DX RBN reports were 20 - 30 dB down
> on normal, so propagation wasn't very good.
> 
> Thanks to everyone who made an effort to come on . . . 
> 
> Hopefully it will be better next Wednesday !
> 
> Roger G3YRO
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