Topbanders,
Segments aside, it was a miserable time over the weekend from the humble small
garden
in the east of England.
Compared to the CW weekend, the W/VE signals were noticeable by their absence,
only
five states worked, and they were a struggle!
Both nights had very little wind, so I used the balloon at 60 metres, and mostly
searched and pounced as low power will not hold a run frequency in Europe (nor
high
power for that matter). Small gusts made the SGC-230 work for a living as the
input
match was chased during QSO's and the SWR bounced all over the shop.
Totals:
225 Q's 44 Countries 5 States 57K points.
Now, back to the antenna farm for some RX antenna improvements. The T32 is
weak,
watery, but one never gives up hope!
73 de Bob G4VGO
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