I only had two short 20 minute times to listen on 10 SSB. The only heard
two GA stations that were loud.. KC4TVZ and my neighbor, AD4J. My beam is
stuck NE but I can get it to 80 degrees and due North. Did not seem to have
strong groundwave this time as I did not hear much outside of skip to Texas,
the Dakotas, and VE4.
Usually with the beam NE I can hear most of the SE USA on backscatter but
not so this time. I do have a S6 noise but the blanker on the Icom cuts
that down to about S3.
I heard a W5 working NA4BW (no trace here) and NQ4I (S3) calling CQ but he
did not not hear my 70 watts. I think I heard another W5 work NE4S.
Again not even ESP
I did work LR1F (LU1HF) and he was 15 over off the back of the beam.
Dave K4JRB
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