Hello 222 friends
It sure was nice to have a calm evening for 222 Night. The gentle
breezes and sunny day made for oretty good conditions for the most part.
Many signals seemed to be up from the normal levels I have been
experiencing. The real long paths over 400 miles were about the same
except for W1XR, who seemed awfully loud. Jim was a good 5X8 peaking on
SSB. VE3DS, WA3EOQ and KO4YC were below average but that may have been
my bad luck at the QSB lottery. About 1 minute after working WA3EOQ
with marginal signals. I heard him at a very Q5 and S2 calling and
working Phil, WA3NUF. I even heard Phil off the back of his beam!
I tried a short stint with KU8Y on meteors and he copied me very well,
but I heard nothing on my end. STill, the meteors seemed to be pretty
good. I copied a few nice bursts also while running FT8 and also heard
meteors on KO4YC during our short QSO. The meteors are back and worth a
shot.
I was monitoring the Solar indices in hopes of a possible aurora. The Bz
component was oscillating between positive and negative, and never
seemed to line up, but I spent some time aiming NW and CQing on CW in
hopes of detecting some buzz. All in all it was an interesting night.
Here is the log:
DATE TIME CALLSIGN GRID TX RX BAND MODE
PRO.REMARKS QRB (Mi)
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05/09/2023 22:52 N1JEZ FN44AR 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 105
05/09/2023 22:54 K1FSY FN31LN 55 55 220 MHzSSB
TR 165
05/09/2023 22:57 K2RMX FN20XP 59 57 220 MHzSSB
TR 247
05/09/2023 22:59 WW2Y FN20TK 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 269 Sounds like a local!!
05/09/2023 23:03 W1XR FM19HX 58 58 220 MHzSSB
TR 406 Very loud
05/09/2023 23:07 WA3NUF FN20KE 58 57 220 MHzSSB
TR 308
05/09/2023 23:09 N1SV FN42 58 58 220 MHzSSB
TR 60+-
05/09/2023 23:09 WZ1V FN31RH 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 165
05/09/2023 23:12 K1PXE FN31KE 57 57 220 MHzSSB
TR 188
05/09/2023 23:16 WB2VVV FN41CR 58 58 220 MHzSSB
TR 123
05/09/2023 23:18 WA3EOQ FM09 429 429 220MHzCW TR
502 weak but always in there.
05/09/2023 23:28 WA1RKS FN32IN 559 559 220 MHzCW
TR 131 good peak on CW.
05/09/2023 23:34 W9KXI FN12NE 58 57 220 MHzSSB
TR 311
05/09/2023 23:42 KO1I FN42JK -02 +02 220 MHzFT8
TR 67 my only FT8 QSO
05/09/2023 23:45 W2TMA FN30HV 55 220 MHzSSB
TR 212 Low power and omni antenna
05/09/2023 23:45 K1TEO FN20JQ 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 287
05/09/2023 23:47 WA2VNV FN30 55 220 MHzSSB
TR 224+- beam stuck South
05/09/2023 23:52 W1AIM FN34UJ 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 96
05/09/2023 23:55 K2AEP FN32OW 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 98
05/10/2023 00:05 VE3FN FN25DK 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 273 Lots QSB but gud copy
05/10/2023 00:16 KO4YC FM17GV 529 529 220 MHzCW
TR 510 weak but steady
05/10/2023 00:26 VE3DS FN03FQ 559 220 MHzCW
TR 430 ditto
05/10/2023 00:57 N3RG FM29KI 55 220 MHzSSB
TR 353
05/10/2023 01:00 KU8Y EN61UW NOT COMPLETE 220 MHzMSK
MS 784
05/10/2023 01:10 VE3KG FN24AV 55 55 220 MHzCW
TR 268
05/10/2023 01:15 WA1T FN43LK 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 5 100 milliwatts!
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Number of QSO listed: 25
I helped a ham take down his Rohn 25 tower on Tuesday, and actually
stirred up some interest with our 222 exploits with the ground crew.
One of the guys, George W1BOF is coming over and I will show him how we
tune up the 222 MHz low pass filters for the 1500 watt amplifiers.
Maybe he will get hooked?
73
Dave K1WHS
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