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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
