Apologies to chasers for my poor showing from this pair yesterday. My 60m kit is poorly and 80m/40m were not playing ball at all
Many thanks to those listening for me, and to those valiant souls that managed to give me the contacts I needed to qualify the hills. And to Gerald, who let me hijack some of his 2m chasers using my HF doublet! And to Peter ON4UP/P who gave me my first ON S2S, an unexpected treat on such a dire day.
Hope to be properly equipped again for the next outing…
In reply to G4MD:
I did listen for you Paul, but 80m is wiped out with S7+ of white noise at this QTH and I don’t think 40m opened much inter-G yesterday.
Good luck with resurrecting the 60m kit (not that much was heard on 60m from this QTH yesterday either!).
A unique and a new one on vhf/uhf yesterday - thanks Gerald!
73 Graham G4FUJ
I had mentioned to Gerald that using only 80m & 40m might make things difficult, but 10 out of 10 for trying. On both 80m & 40m you were inaudible here in the morning, but I was so happy to work you on 80m in the afternoon. Despite the poor report I gave you, we did exchange the relevant details, although anything less signal wise at my location, would have made it 1/1 & several attempts at exchanging reports.
In general, conditions on both 80m & 40m were very poor yesterday & even 60m with 5 Watts would have been marginal during the day, but I do think 60m would have given the best chance of a contact at the times you were operating.
Great fun trying though, at least from this end. HI!
Thanks for listening Graham, sorry we didn’t make it this time. Glad you managed to get the unique summit from Gerald.
In reply to G0VOF:
It was certainly good to hear your familiar voice Mark, thanks for giving it a go despite the marginal conditions.
QRP HF does seem to be a bit of a gamble these days, let’s hope better conditions are just round the corner! Did have a great time anyway, a fine pair of summits.