Re: LF: Weekend new ones

["Mike Dennison" <mike.dennison@rsgb.org.uk>]

G4GVC wrote:
> . . . .. .  the
> contact I had with HB9DCE at 10.43UT on Sunday morning. He called on my
> frequency as I finished a contact with DK5PT, and seemed rather surprised
> when I responded, although his signal peaked RST-559. LX1PD worked him
> immediately afterwards, but I didn't hear anyone else call him. Is this
> another case of the mythical assymetrical ear syndrome, or (much more
> likely) the geographical variations in propagation that many of us are
> observing on the band?
I heard this QSO but only a few letters of HB9DCE's transmission so 
did not bother to call. My local noise had been very low earlier but 
got up to S5 by the time this QSO took place. Anyone without local 
noise is at a great advantage - I occasionally hear the real noise 
floor when all of the computers and TVs are off - and I am sure that 
this is a major factor in how 'deaf' anyone is. In the days when local 
noise was significant on 73kHz - before Rugby got wide - I did a lot 
of portable receiving and could hear signals in the countryside 
several s-points below town levels. 



Mike, G3XDV (IO91VT)
http://www.dennison.demon.co.uk/activity.htm