Yesterday (Thursday) was a nice sunny day here with 14C. I had just realised that Id not activated anything in September & a quick check revealed I
d not earned my point from Gun Hill yet this year. As the solar flux had exceeded 90 for only the 3rd or 4th time in the last 4 years, the idea was to play on 20m & try for some N America contacts.
After working Viktor HA5LV on HA/ND-008 at home, I threw the gear into the car & headed for Gun. Once set up I tried a few calls on my alerted freq on 20m, these went unanswered so I decided to self spot. As I was in the Peak Park I asked to be put in the cluster as GFF-014 as well (thanks G1NKI & others).
For the first 5 or 10 mins I worked a few SOTA chasers then all hell broke loose as the WFF clx spot filtered through. An eventful 71 minutes bagged 128 contacts in the log. I did manage 1 W1 & a VE9, there may have been other NA stations calling, however if they were they didn`t break the East Eu / Russian wall of noise. Interestingly Don G0RQL got his 5/5 signal through the wall due to recognising his voice - not bad for short skip.
Many thanks to all callers & the clx spots. Batteries on charge for Sunday (if wx is better than forecast).