[UK-CONTEST] 40m to USA long after sunrise

[Clive Whelan]

Still OT contest, but hopefully of interest for the upcoming CQWW CW

With the rx still set on 7004 from yesterday, I got into the shack for 
my coffee break about 11:40z, and at 11:45 up popped CO8LY calling CQ 
DX. He was called by and worked a couple of JAs, all of whom were 
audible with signals strengths from S3 down. He then worked a VK4, who 
with the benefit of knowing that he was there, was audible albeit only 
at ESP levels. The CO then audibly faded towards noon z. but it wasn't 
clear if possibly he'd gone QRT after fading into the noise.

Then while working on summat on the computer up popped KG9N at 12:30 
with a cracking S7 signal, but he got no replies to his CQs. He is IL 
not in the 9th district btw.

I can't really see the flux increasing now as we move towards the 
solstice and so there ought to be plenty of DX to work through the day 
in CQWW.


73


Clive
GW3NJW

Clive Whelan wrote:
> This is getting a bit OT- contest but hopefully you might be interested.
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