Stefan/Group

 

I didnt stay out too late as I had to get up early, but here is what I got. I started just as the moon was rising, then it started to rain pretty heavily. I was plonked in a "scenic pull in" just inside the entrance of the Bison reserve - at EM16TS

 

The QSB on signals was VERY slow, slower than yesterday. As a comparison between your ERP at dot 60 and HGA22 and DCF39 - they were (just) audible but not much above noise, and of course during the period of your peaks HGA22 was below audible levels. There was a CW qso going more HF on 137 but I closed the filters before getting the callsigns in fear of bleeding noise into the buckets..

 

Seeing as DCF39 and 22  get to S5 or more at times on rarer times we had a long way before I would call these "very good" conditions and far from exceptional. So, bearing in mind Eu isnt easy from OK given my past rx and tx  experiences it bodes well for the future... there were hints of other stations too but even glaring at the screen didnt make out any characters :-)

The rain luckily gave very little precip static - qrn peaked S5 and it was "real" quiet but good enough. I still got some far away squiggles from a SMPSU.

We appear to have lost AK to Eu this morning so perhaps that stream event hasnt helped up there..still havent had a path from Alaska to Eu so far this winter that Ive seen...

Great to see your signal finally here in Southern states ; The path isnt easy for some reason - I remember I found it quite difficult to get signals from OK to Eu, and easier to be seen in Oceania from here -

 

Other signals on 137 -  MP, NA was clear as was XGJ plus or two CW-ers both around strength 439 XNS/XES (?). On 500 - I didnt hear much save /7 but I didnt spend a lot of time down there.

 

I had the probe up a couple of meters on the car - I actually had two antennae - one being the AMRAD W1VD version and then the modded PA0RDT/R75 which I actually used last night - Im a fair weather experimenter and didnt fancy swopping antennae when it was raining heavily. The roads were certainly a mess as the roads out there arent paved -   adn its going back covered in road dust and mud :-) The new Ford Taurus is a dang quiet car at LF, and compares with the Murano - no difference in noise with the engine running and or the AC/DC charger running - as long as I grounded the coax to the door frame.

Cheers

Laurence  KL7UK was Mobile 5, Oklahoma.