FYI around 11pm-ish last night there was an opening to Northern Ireland! I heard MI0TLG calling CQ DX. He was using a 1260' long loop antenna (his QRZ page shows a video of it). When I first heard him, he was a solid 56 on my modest G5RV antenna in Winchester Canyon (Goleta). I called back using about 1300 watts and low-and-behold, he heard me! He gave me a 56 (and he was actually down to a 54 by the time I was able to contact him; the band was dying as the QSO got started). This was one of a very few (if any?) European contacts I've been able to make from my shack.
An hour before that I made a contact to South America (59 both ways) on 40 meters.
The bands are getting exciting.
Ken
The Northern Ireland opening was on 20 meters, BTW (I left that out).
--On Sunday, July 2, 2023 12:47 PM -0700 Ken Alker ka6ken@alker.net wrote:
FYI around 11pm-ish last night there was an opening to Northern Ireland! I heard MI0TLG calling CQ DX. He was using a 1260' long loop antenna (his QRZ page shows a video of it). When I first heard him, he was a solid 56 on my modest G5RV antenna in Winchester Canyon (Goleta). I called back using about 1300 watts and low-and-behold, he heard me! He gave me a 56 (and he was actually down to a 54 by the time I was able to contact him; the band was dying as the QSO got started). This was one of a very few (if any?) European contacts I've been able to make from my shack.
An hour before that I made a contact to South America (59 both ways) on 40 meters.
The bands are getting exciting.
Ken _______________________________________________ SBARC-list mailing list -- sbarc-list@lists.netlojix.com To unsubscribe send an email to sbarc-list-leave@lists.netlojix.com
-
Ken Alker