I would agree with GB Ron that conditions on 222 this evening were not
all that great. In fact they were below average by a goodly amount. I
had some company this evening. Cousin Al, WA1T, stopped by at about 6:30
and we drove up to the shack and messed around with fixing COM ports
before the action started. When stations started appearing, I let Al
run the station, while I logged and handled the chat pages. As the Moon
was up, I was looking at both the HB9Q site and ON4KST. My only
stipulation was that I wanted to try the sked with Howard, WA3EOQ. That
was a squeaker. I heard nil the first sequence on CW, but then copied a
good set of calls at the end of the next sequence. I figured things were
picking up, but then I went three sequences before hearing Howard again.
Then he appeared and was pretty good copy for the last two. The QSB was
very deep and stations would go from S7 on SSB down to about S1 or 2 and
very hard copy. The fading was brutal. Other stations worked include
(from memory) : WB2ONA FN20, W1AIM FN34, W1GHZ FN34, KV1J FN44, N1GLT
FN42, WB2VVV FN41, K1FSY FN31, K1PXE FN31, WA1PBU FN42, WA3NUF FN20,
K2RMX FN20, WB2RVX FM29, WW1Z FN42, KV1J FN44, N1AV (AZ), K3SK FM07,
WA2LTM FN20, KA3FQS FN20, WA1MBA FN51, N1YCQ FN41, W7TZ (OR CM83), K1ZK
FN34, W9KXI FN12, N2JQR FN13, K2AEP FN32, K1FMS FN32, N1JEZ FN44,
I made three EME contacts with K3SK VA, N1AV in AZ, and W7TZ in Oregon.
Al and I would get confused swinging the antenna all over the place and
making sure we had the right antenna pointing in the right direction.
The total was 28 stations worked for the evening, and not bad for a
crummy night. I could get no one in the Midwest for a meteor try. There
were some meteors about, but the Midwest contingent went QRT a bit
earlier than they usually do. I think the bad condx were pretty
widespread. It had been very windy all day and was still quite breezy at
01:00 UT at the VHF shack. The clincher was that AL brought over a few
bottles of a nice beer from Delaware, so we had fun chasing stations
while yakking and sipping beer. I am hoping the winds die down in the
coming days.
73
Dave K1WHS
On 11/12/2024 8:38 PM, Ron Klimas WZ1V wrote:
222 tough tonight with poor conditions, but logged the following:
WA3NUF FN20, WB2ONA FN20, W1GHZ FN34, W9KXI FN12,
WA3EOQ FM09, K1WHS FN43, KV1J FN44, WA1MBA FN51,
K1PXE FN31, WB2VVV FN41, K2AEP FN32, K1FSY FN31,
KA3FQS FN20, WA1PBU FN42, W1AIM FN34, K3SK FM07,
WA2LTM FN20, N1YCQ FN41, WB2RVX FM29, N1JEZ FN44,
K2RMX FN20, and W2TMA FN30. Thanks for the QSO's.
73 Ron WZ1V
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