I listened around at 00:00 UT up around 1830 and the static crashes from the storms in the upper Midwest was covering anything that might have been on the band. S9+10 on my RX loop.
Cecil K5DL Sent from my iPad > On Dec 30, 2021, at 3:16 PM, David Olean <[email protected]> wrote: > > I managed to get on 160 CW starting at 05:30 UT and figured I might catch a > few early risers on the "Continent". I was quite surprised at the level of > activity. I did not hear many stateside callers, but I was busy for a few > hours up until just about Sunrise in Europe. No exotic DX worked, but I > managed a number of contacts with new stations for me. As I was getting > close to EU Sunrise, I also got a call from ZL1AZ. He was good copy on my > Europe beverage wire, and was 579 when I picked a wire that was aimed the > other way. He peaked at 290 degrees, so the path was skewed northward a bit. > > I tried a little FT8 near EU Sunrise and set power at 5 watts. I worked two > stations in Spain. That was not much fun, so back on CW after only a few > minutes, and worked a few more in Britain, Norway and Sweden as daylight was > spreading across the mainland. I managed to not work G3YRO, but I wanted to > let him know that I did make an appearance on the Wednesday Activity Night! > I had lots of QRN nearby, which made copy poor as I would miss several > letters at a time. I am also finding that my CW is getting worse as my hands > suffer from tremors. It is starting to ruin my already bad fist!! > > 73 > > Dave K1WHS > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
