Things sure get dicey when the weather gets cold. I noticed that my VHF
shack computer had hung up and when I tried to restart it, it kept
getting worse. I think the cold got to it. It was below freezing in the
shack so that does not help delicate computer drives etc. So no digital
modes or EME tonight. I dragged the whole mess down to the house for
checking, but I think it is trashed and needs expert help. Note the key
word "expert". That removes me from the equation.
The band seemed to be hopping with some long fading. Still I worked
quite a few stations. Activity was great.
2346 K2RMX FN20 5X7 on peaks on SSB
2350 K2AEP FN32
2358 N1JEZ FN44 Mike is loud in every direction my
beam points.
0000 W1ZC FN42
0008 VE2GDR FN25 He was very strong and located about 25
miles NW of Montreal. SSB
0022 VA3ELE FN03 CW not complete. Peter was operating
remote and the RX kept quitting. We heard each other well when it worked.
0032 N1GLT FN42 Wally from the Derry area
0038 VE3KG FN24
0039 WA3NUF FN20 Pretty loud as usual.
0039 WZ1V FN31 Good buddy Ron was loud
0042 K1PXE FN31 Short QSO lots of QRM and QSOs on
top of QSOs!!
0043 WA1PBU FN42
0057 WA1RKS FN32 Ellis was quite strong on CW, peaking
559-569
0057 WA3EOQ FM09 Huge signal variation. Howard peaked
559 with 100 watts.
0103 WA1T FN43 my closest QSO. 2.5 miles!!
0109 N1GJ FN41 Good SSB signals from Cape Cod.
0110 WB2RVX FM29 Very nice SSB QSO.
0111 N2JMH FN12 Peaking 58 to 59 He has 800 watts
and 2 x 16 el
0113 W1AIM FN34 In the land of Cabot cheese.
0117 N1YCQ FN41 Another Cape Codder
0129 KO4YC FM17 CW contact
0132 W9KXI FN12 SSB and good signals. Some QSB
0207 W2BYP FN13 "Bippy" peaking 58 and we
went to SSB. Near Rochester, NY.
Somehow I seem to have missed W1GHZ while spinning the beam around this
evening. The attempt with VA3ELE was frustrating as I was hearing
Peter just fine on CW, but he would lose his hearing after transmitting
and had to reboot the computer, so we never worked. We tried for quite
a while. Howard WA3EOQ started off quite weak. I actually missed one
transmission from him, but then he built up to a very loud S5 and about
as strong as I have ever heard him on 222. He worked WZ1V right after
and was really loud here during Ron's QSO. I think Howard had a great
night with many contacts in interesting directions. WA3EOQ is in FM09 in
extreme western MD. KO4YC was worked on CW. Signals were not as good as
other times when we can work on SSB. Hey! it's November!
K2AEP is located in Southern VT and runs 15 watts. He has been trying to
work his buddy, W2BYP in FN13. To help improve his chances, Pete started
adding elements to his yagi pointing westward. He figured that
eventually the distance covered would be less if the front of his yagi
extended farther towards FN13. The plan worked and they had success tonight.
In looking over my log, I count 16 grids worked on just an activity
evening. My antenna never was aimed to the East and so all those grids
are west and southwest from here. Not bad for a Tuesday night. Some
W8s and 9s were on along with N1GC, W4ZST, AJ6T, and W5EME. Bob, W4ZST
was lamenting his poor showing from Georgia, but he did mange at least
two contacts. With my dead computer, we could not try EME. I know WZ1V
tried a sked with N8WNR on FT8. Not sure how that went, but it is great
to try those long hauls. Sometimes you get a surprise!
It is late, so enough for now!
73
Dave K1WHS
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