Hi all, it seemed to me that the noise was fairly low and conditions quite
good this weekend. Unfortunately the weather was definitely 'garden clearing
weather' as well...but that didn't seem to impede some stations. DJ5BV was
a steady consistant signal all weekend. I also have a suspicion that Mike
has
been breathing hard on his aerial again as he was at times 3dB stronger than
I usually hear him, and the loop was pointing slightly North of Welwyn GC.

Sunday
A good start, Toni HB2ASB copied in ssb filter on the speaker giving 579 to
John G4GVC, and 'apologising' for still being on the 'chaos' aerial....if
that's what it takes I guess several of us could do with a little chaos!! I
heard John call IK5ZPV and I could see the trace on the screen but could not
quite copy the signal from Valerio. It would have been a definte 'O' with me
on QRS. I hung onto John's coat tails and heard him make a marginal qso with
Wolf DL1SAN at 339, unfortunately though I again could see Wolf's trace on
the waterfall display (again 'O' on QRS) I could not quite copy his morse.
The next one was a trace from I5MXX as John called him at 1241z. The
interesting point was that several times during the day I saw weak traces
looking like a cq in length and several qsos that did not bring up any G
stations calling (my loop was favouring S.Germany and OE) Later on during
a break from the greenhouse I heard the end of a qso between John and Derek
G3GRO, and as they finished up popped Geri (DK8KW) spot on that frequency
working I5MXX, Derek tried hard but was not making the trip.

I also copied a very nice 'O' transmission from DF8ZR working DJ5AO on DFCW.
I could see no sign of DJ5AO on 'gram. I have a .JPG file of the last over
if DF8ZR is interested. DJ5BV obviously didn't decode it as he called on
hand speed over DJ5AO.

It was an interesting weekend, and it goes to show that a good wire does
beat a 1.2m indoor loop.....but not by much( I guess I'm giving away 3-6dB
to John at most) .....and its easy to have a lot of fun with the number of
signals that there are around now.

There was a good cluster posting list this weekend...and I haven't seen
Boris
in any of your reports yet!!

As last week I will filter any list from Wolf (DL1SAN) and post any spots
not
propagated to GB7DXM

G3NYK de GB7DXM   13-Feb 2112Z >
  136.8  HB2ASB      13-Feb-2000 2045Z  1st qso S5/hb9 569/349
<S57A-5>
  137.0  I5TGC       13-Feb-2000 1833Z  cq 559 with 15mw erp
<S57A-5>
  137.0  DJ5BV       13-Feb-2000 1250Z  CQ  CQ no takers
<DL3FDO>
  136.8  G3YXM       13-Feb-2000 0945Z  539 cq
<DL1SAN>
  137.2  S57A        13-Feb-2000 0938Z  cq 579 ale' Boris!
<IK1HSS>
  136.8  G3YXM       13-Feb-2000 0945Z  539 cq
<DL1SAN>
  137.0  I5TGC       13-Feb-2000 0944Z  569
<S57A-4>
  136.3  G4GVC       13-Feb-2000 0930Z  439 calling hb2asb
<DL1SAN>
  136.2  HB2ASB      13-Feb-2000 0928Z  569 in qso with g3yxm 439
<DL1SAN>
  136.7  G3LDO       13-Feb-2000 0914Z  559
<IK1HSS>
  136.7  IK5ZPV      13-Feb-2000 0813Z  cq
<IK1HSS>
  137.7  I5TGC       12-Feb-2000 1756Z  slow cw 569 fb
<S57A-5>
  137.0  G3AQC       12-Feb-2000 1624Z
<DJ5BV>
  137.3  G3XDV       12-Feb-2000 1616Z
<DJ5BV>
  136.6  G3OLB       12-Feb-2000 1606Z
<DJ5BV>
  136.9  I5MXX       12-Feb-2000 1244Z  579/559
<S57A-5>
  136.4  OE5ODL      12-Feb-2000 1018Z  579 cq
<DL1SAN>
  137.0  IK5ZPV      11-Feb-2000 1756Z  599
<S57A-4>
  136.9  DJ5BV       10-Feb-2000 1756Z  439 cq
<DL1SAN>
  137.0  DJ9EI        7-Feb-2000 2113Z  559
<S57A-4>
  137.3  IK5ZPV       7-Feb-2000 2113Z  439
<DL1SAN>
  136.9  DJ9IE        7-Feb-2000 2108Z  559 cq
<DL1SAN>
  137.0  OE5ODL       7-Feb-2000 1752Z  hr also DJ5BV
<DL3FDO>
G3NYK de GB7DXM   13-Feb 2114Z >
 1800.0  DF8ZR       13-Feb-2000 1302Z  caling dj5ao DFCW 137.7kHz
<G3NYK>
 1800.0  DJ5BV       13-Feb-2000 1254Z  569 in JO02PB on 137.0kHz
<G3NYK>
 1800.0  DJ5BV       12-Feb-2000 1045Z  137.1 khz cq
<DL5XU>
 1800.0  PA0LEG      11-Feb-2000 0832Z  136.5 cq
<PA3FQX>
G3NYK de GB7DXM   13-Feb 2116Z >

73 de Alan G3NYK   JO02PB
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