T31A has been com ing in for several hours the last couple of nights with
booming signals even louder than the continuous lightning crashes from the
midwest storms listening to the pileups there are a lot of loud
signals from stations all over the country calling them he is an
outstanding operator giving the call of the station he is calling several times
at a reasonable speed and acknowledging the reply several times
when I turned on my linear it began arcing, though, so I had to work him
barefoot - no problem the trouble with the linear was a deposit of
gypsum dust that had collected inside from the nearly continuous dust storms of
the last month (I live near the white sands desert) gypsum is electrically
conductive with even the merest trace of moisture I keep a cloth cover over my
equipment when not in use but the dust was so fine it got
through anyway
WHEN YOU ARE FACING THE LIGHT THE SHADOWS FALL BEHIND YOU
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UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
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