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Alex,
we made it ;-) Thank you very much for this
good QSO.
Despite a solid signal from you it wasn't an easy
one here. When the rain started to become stronger, I reduced my antenna current
to about 3.3 A (0.5 W ERP, but still 16 kV rms). The auto variometer swung
wildly back and forth, and with humidity building up it crept more and more
towards the low inductance end-stop. My main worry was that one of
the end-insulators (ie plastic pen shafts) of the three topload legs
might fail. This has happened before, and after melting the thin Perlon guy
line, the high-voltage wire had fallen down in the middle of the
transmission.
Then during your last TX period, after
20:25 half of the sequence was lost in a "whiteout" due
to charged droplets (precipitation static). Luckily WSJT-X managed to
recover your RRR anyway.
73 and thanks again,
Markus (DF6NM)
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: LF: CQ JT9-10 137130 TX/RX
Hi Alex,
have been calling you a few times since 18:50 but
had to interrupt now at 19:53 because the rain became to intense. Will retry
later tonight.
73 es GL,
Markus (DF6NM)
1900 10 -30 0.9 1630.97 0 CQ R7NT
KN97
1920 10 -30 0.9 1629.97 0 CQ R7NT KN97
1940 10 -29 1.7 1629.97 0 CQ R7NT KN97
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 9:13 PM
Subject: LF: CQ JT9-10 137130 TX/RX
73!
Alex R7NT 136.73.ru
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