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

Clive Whelan clive.whelan at btinternet.com
Wed Oct 29 11:53:48 EDT 2008


Erm I mean he IS in the 9th district, dylexias rules OK!

Clive Whelan wrote:
> 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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