On 1/20/02 6:28 PM, John T. Laney, III at k4bai@worldnet.att.net wrote:
>I was unable to get answers to CQs on 10 and 15 to speak of.
I managed a short, short run on 10m, and a little longer run on 15m.
Neither was short enough to be real productive.
>On 10 in
>the late afternoon, I heard a lot of W1/W2 stations calling CQ, but they
>couldn't hear me. They were peaking NW for some reason.
I noticed this, too. Working them was a bit tricky, but possible. Barely.
>QSYs worked
>quite well. I had to beam SE in the early afternoon and SW later for
>most backscatter QSOs. Skip was quite short on 15 and almost
>non-existent on 20 early in the afternoon.
I never turned my beam south of W, or south of NE.
Skip was very, very short about 2100z. That's when I had my best run. I
did have a few stations out west call in, working stations in AZ off the
side of the beam.
Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
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