Ben (and Charlie)
Don't know for sure, but if you both heard it around the same time maybe it
was an over-the-horizon radar? Heard Iran, China and now Russia have
reactivated them. Heard them during the contest.
Example of some are at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knPQ9Ek1BOc
Kevan
N4XL
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:01 AM, AA4CF <aa4cf at comcast.net> wrote:
> Ben, I remember high QRN around the same time, to me the conditions seemed
> to go in and out on 15m and 20m
>
> Charlie
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Aug 17, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Ben Coleman <nj8j at benshome.net> wrote:
> >
> > North American QSO Party, SSB - August
> >
> > Call: NJ8J
> > Operator(s): NJ8J
> > Station: NJ8J
> >
> > Class: Single Op LP
> > QTH: GA
> > Operating Time (hrs): 9:34
> >
> > Summary:
> > Band QSOs Mults
> > -------------------
> > 160: 1 1
> > 80: 57 21
> > 40: 114 38
> > 20: 25 14
> > 15: 37 6
> > 10:
> > -------------------
> > Total: 234 80 Total Score = 18,720
> >
> > Club: South East Contest Club
> >
> > Team: SECC
> >
> > Comments:
> > Equipment:
> > Alinco DX-77T
> > LDG AT-11MP Automatic Antenna tuner
> >
> > Antennas:
> > 100' OCF Dipole fed with ladder-line
> >
> > Logger: N1MM
> >
> > Probably my best August NAQP SSB, mainly because I haven't done that
> > many of them. I didn't realize how many I had missed until I looked it
> > up to compare. Still far from my Jan NAQP SSB 2001 entry, and not
> > nearly as fun as the recent NAQP CW.
> >
> > Never heard anything on 10. 15 and 20 weren't that great. Main
> > difference between 15 and 20 was that on 15 you could hear plenty of
> > loud signals (just not enough of them), while on 20 just about everyone
> > was down in the mud. The contest didn't become fun until I dropped down
> > to 40. I had rates above 60 on the initial sweep through 40, and even
> > managed to run for a short while. Ditto on 80. 80 seemed to die in the
> > last hour. I wasted a half hour in the last hour on 80 when I should
> > have jumped back to 40.
> >
> > Did this with the rig's standard hand mike, which means a lot of setting
> > it down to type on the keyboard and picking it back up to transmit,
> > which can get clumsy at times. At one point, I thought W100AW/4 had
> > taken my run frequency on 40. Realized shortly after that apparently I
> > had accidently hit the UP button on the hand mike, moving me up 100Khz
> > and right onto *his* frequency. Managed to work him, though I had to ask
> > for his call (which must have been amusing). After that I made sure
> > that I didn't leave the select marker in the 100KHz position. I've got
> > a headset/mike with a foot-pedal switch, but the cable has a break in
> > it. I need to fix that before my next serious SSB
> > contest.
> >
> > Around 2130Z I started getting an S9 noise level. That's dinner time,
> > so I figured it was probably a neighbor running a mixer or something
> > similar while making dinner. I took a break at that point, and was out
> > a bit long, which is why I didn't quite make it to 10 hours.
> >
> > Ben
> > --
> > Ben Coleman nj8j at benshome.net
> > "I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
> > same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
> > Paul Tomblin
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