The forecast has just updated with the rain coming earlier, persisting til later and more of it in between. Any DX S2S will be well deserved today, certainly from any UK activators.
OMG
My first Trans Atlantic Sota in 2 years and under me new 2E licence well chuffed with that.
20m is doing well into SV HA and OE on 20m today.
Shame storm Pedro stopped me going up Kitt hill day, Illogan recorded gusts 133mph as hitting 85 here 5am further up the coast and me wire antennas still up there as were well exposed here.
WA7JTM/ Pete Glad you did. Heard you and did not want to interfere with s2s ctcs for you
but had to throw my call in there and work you for the points.
Thanks for the activation. Tell the MRS I am thankful…
de John Paul // AB4PP
Mixed results on my side. Very good cond on 20 in EU.
I got Rich N4EX in the log and heard Mike NS1TA with 51 with some QSB. But I guess the 5 Watt on my side were not enough for a SSB QSO. I heard Mark M0NOM/P work him S2S and UK chasers manage as well. Too bad that I didn’t manage.
TODO: Buy 30 Watt china amp from ebay
Returned at home now from I/LO-222.
Cloudy and foggy day with 5 celsius.
Good prop in 20 mt to North America.
28 qsos
10 qsos with North America cheasers
2 qsos with s2s North America activators USA and Canada
Due to announced rain showers on DM/BW-228 I changed the summit last minute to DM/BW-099 which was a good choice. The weather was windy but dry.
Unfortunately had to change the antenna as well due to restricted space on the new summit.
The equipment was KX3 @ 10 Watts and end fed vertical dipole directly at the edge with a clear view from 270 to 360 degrees.
Condx on 20m were pretty good with SFI = 11 and k = 0
Ukrainian DX contest caused some QRM but could have been worse.
Made 31 CW QSO, thereoff 13 x NA chasers, 9 S2S from that were 3 with NA activators.
Last week I built a delta loop for 20m, which I wanted to compare with the vertical, which I usually use.
The whole week I was unsure (about the weather) - if I participate at all. The weather forecast was different every day… Yesterday it still looked like rain and storm …
This morning, a rain gap was announced and I went… with my KX2 and the Vertical with a single radial.
During this time (12:56 -14:08 UT) I got 5 US stations - NS1TA was my S2S. Condx were not so bad. Unfortunately, LU/HB9BHU/P and VE2DDZ did not hear me … both were workable at my side.
I left the delta loop in the car, it was too windy. … and I was lucky - it started to rain, as I reached the car.
Well what a day AND propagation was good to HA OE and SV as well on 20m. 12 Sota’s contacted today and10 on 20m :-0 Prop gods smiled on us today
Best best result of all just checked me Mountain Hunter award and i have gone Platinum possible thanks to the two NA Sota,s I reached today. Must been couple years since last reached any NA Sota’s.
God damn happy with that
Just a shame we had that storm raging through peaking 133mph in place not far from us and was peaking 80+ here on top of this exposed part of town and me antennas still in air working. Other wise would been good day to test out the inverted HB V res 40/20m DP and 80m L/coils antenna.