Topband: E51D Oct 1

[EUGENE GABRY]

Thanks George for the Q this morning on 160. It was rough going here this morning. Due to the heavy rains we received from Hurricane Helene, a farmers electric fence/s somewhere in an eight mile radius has been arcing sporadically since the heavy rains hit.
I first heard you at 09:46utc, but only sporadically. At 10:57utc when you answered my call the first time, the electric fence started making noise to S9+10 and never heard your reply to my report. There was also a lot of deep qsb at that time as well.
By 11:20utc your signal popped up out of nowhere, and remained continuous, building through our contact, which was just at the beginning of grey line here. I listened to you until you went qrt around 11:38utc (middle of my gray line), and you were now an audible -7db s/n for several transmissions. Strong enough for CW!
The antenna here is still a 6BTV with a parallel inverted L wire, ~25' vertical and ~110' horizontal tied off to a spider beam pole at ~ 23' extended. The horizontal wire has about a 2' sag after a year of being in the air in some pretty high winds.
For on the ground radials, I have 12, 32' radials, 4, 66' radials and 4 135' radials. 

Thanks again for the contact a new DX entity in my TN location. 

73 es GL DX!

Gene, N9TF  
> On 09/30/2024 10:18 PM CDT GEORGE WALLNER <aa7jv at atlanticbb.net> wrote:
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> E51D will be on 1828.5 CW from 0430 Z. Then from 0900 on 1836.0 FT8 FH.
>  From 1600 to 1700 on 1828.5 CW.
> 
> 73,
> George
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