Hi Roger
I had a remarkable swing of QSB that took you from really loud to really
weak. I had been hoping that we would have a great evening (finally) but
when I first heard you calling, I said to myself, "This isn't good." A
few seconds later you were blasting in, so it made evaluating the
evening a bit difficult. I heard the same condx on Z2LA last night. He
went from weak to gone in the space of 30 seconds. One DL station had
so much QSB, that I thought another local station here was trying to
help me fish out his weak callsign. Very strange!
We were in the middle of a huge snow storm last night, and there was
lightning involved with the storm system, so the static crashes were
terrible here. We have a lot of new snow as well this morning. I called
a few CQs and worked a small string of OK, OH, SP, and DL stations. I
think many NA stations were parked on 1821 looking for Z2LA. I did not
stay up for EU sunrise.
Dave K1WHS
On 3/8/2018 9:30 AM, Roger Kennedy wrote:
Well conditions were a little better last night, although I only managed to
work about ten NA stations between 0000z and 0100.
I think there weren't that many stations on?
I also just had an email from VU2GSM who said he called me around 0030z, but
I didn't hear him! (it was a bit noisy, due to a neighbour's TV that didn't
go off until around 0100)
I did come back on for a listen around 0500, to see if I could copy the
Easter Island Dxpedition, but couldn't hear them. (although I worked it
several years ago)
Although there were several EU stations on calling CQ DX at that time,
nobody was coming back to them, so didn't bother transmitting. (too late at
night for you NA guys?)
73 Roger G3YRO
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