Topband: ARRL 160m

[David Olean]

I missed you, Roger, I tried to get on Saturday and everything was 
working great, but a bad storm was coming through with heavy wet snow. 
There was all sorts of static and my TX antenna VSWR was going up fast. 
The amplifier was not happy. I quit for dinner and then lost AC power. 
It was off for a few days. When it came back, all my beverage receiving 
antennas did not work. I went out to look them all over and they are all 
broken with the wires under 10 or 11 inches of frozen snow that acts 
like cement. There are so many trees down that I can not move around 
easily. The roads are all blocked. I had 8 receiving wires and all of 
them are wrecked. My TX antenna is loaded with frozen snow and ice. It 
has not gone above freezing since.  I am QRT for awhile.

Dave K1WHS

On 12/6/2020 5:46 PM, Roger Kennedy wrote:
> I thought conditions were fairly good, especially on Friday Night.  The big
> NA signals were peaking over S9 here in NorthEast England.
>
> I spent about 3 hours in total on the band, and managed to work around 70
> North American stations, including across to Florida, Virgin Islands,
> Colorado and Texas.
>
> I heard dozens more NA stations . . . but couldn't call them as they were
> working other NA stations on their frequency.
>
> Generally I was pretty pleased how well I was being received through the
> local QRM. I think every station I called bar one came back to me.
>
> 73 Roger G3YRO
>
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