I got chased off the hill, by approaching storms. I was watching them
approach and pulled the plug when they were about 15 miles away. I
actually quit 222 around 00:30 UT as horrendous rain static made
reception very difficult. It got up to over S9 along with lightning
crashes. I worked about 12 stations and apologize for ducking out, but
I did not want to get caught in a downpour etc. Had great signals from
N2SLO who has his antenna up in the air now, along with K1DS from his
downstairs balcony. That was just before the rain static started up!! I
could hear signals only on my 222 LVA. I had real trouble with W9KXI due
to the horrendous noise. I ended up calling him on the big yagi, but had
to listen on the LVA which is down about 5 db in Al's direction. There
was even a bit of rain static on the lower antenna. It was not fun.
Condx were way down for sure.
Hopefully Wednesday night on 432 will be more user friendly. I hope K1DS
has a safe and enjoyable trip down South and thanks for making noise on
222 this Summer.
73
Dave K1WHS
On 9/13/2022 9:15 PM, Ron Klimas WZ1V wrote:
Had a fun night of relaxed operating on 222 tonight.
I thought conditions were fairly good. Logged the following:
K2RMX FN20, K1DS FN20, N2SLO FN30, K1PXE FN31,
K1WHS FN43, N1BUG FN55, N1SV FN42, W3CJK FN41,
N1YCQ FN41, N1JEZ FN44, N1GJ FN41, W9KXI FN12,
W1AIM FN34, and KO4YC FM17. TNX for the QSO's.
73 Ron WZ1V FN31RH
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