Hi Steve! Hummm - I wonder if there might be a technical problem. ( water in coax connectors, water in driven elements, etc. ) I'm running SOLP, and I've got 73 QSOs so far, including Ohio, Indiana,
I saw where MI had scattered t-storms for much of the afternoon. Sure that was a factor. Still worked fair amount of MI activity, under average condx. MI stations I worked y'day -- K2YAZ, N8PVT, NE8I
I've gotten some great, even hysterical comments on this, but most were to me directly. So some people are doing OK, a one person said his best DX was 10 miles, one contact. ;-) I now have a munifice