Saturday 23 October
Got up at 0530 UTC and put out several slow and
fast CW calls. Didn't hear anyone for two hours!
Band noisy with man-made noise and static (when
will the QRN season end this year?). The noise
was lowest at 0830UTC.
Heard EI0CF (549); G4GVC (599).
Saw on Spectrogram QRSs signals from PA2NJN ('O'
and audible at S2); G3XTZ ('O' and S9+10).
QSO with MM0ALM (gave 569, got best ever report
from Dave at 579).
Sunday 24 October
Got up late! Still noisy on the band.
Heard G6RO (449); PA0SE (579); DK8KW (339); EI0CF
(559).
Saw on Spectrogram QRSs signals from PA2NJN ('O'
and S3); DJ5AO ('M').
Had a random QSO with IK5ZPV using QRSs. Very
weak signals and took quite a while to get him to
copy my callsign. Finally exchanged reports and
rogers. The high wind and rain was causing my
antenna current (normally 1.7A) to vary between
1.3 and 1.5A. This is my best DX at 1199km, a new
country (number 10) and the 48th station worked
on 136kHz. My web site shows a Spectrogram plot
of part of the QSO, which includes PA2NJN and
DJ5AO working within 20Hz of my QSO with no
mutual QRM.
Mike, G3XDV (IO91VT)
http://www.dennison.demon.co.uk/activity.htm
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