public:radio:blog:6
Sat 15 July 2023
- SFI = 181 A = 20 K = 2
- Flare : M2.9 @ 0741z - will condx be poor today?
- Period 1 : 2000z
- 30m Beacon : IZ3DVW/B 10129.5 - peaking S3 on meter. Strong signal : 2020z
- Replied to a CQ call sent by DL4YHF - “CQ TESTING INDOOR ANTENNA PSE K” - Wolf - nr. Bieldefeld - “we have worked before from club DF0WD a long time ago” - BVc - ~RCh
- CQ 30m
- RBN Spots
- 10115.5: SE5E OH6BG TF3Y SM7IUN ES2RR DM6EE DL0PF G4HSO OE9GHV G4IRN S53WW DL8LAS DC8YZ CT7ANO G4ZFE DJ2BC TF4M HB9DCO IK4VET DR4W EA5WU RN4WA DF2CK DO4DXA ON6ZQ DM5GG HB9BXE (+ 20 more)
- Called by UB3B - Alex - Moscow - BVp / BVc - RSt
- Replied to a CQ call sent by M7NDB - SKh - was strong, S9, and he came back to me and then faded away to NIL during his first over. Copied “op John qth Man….” and gone, nil, nada!
- Listened on 40m and heard a lot of CQ TEST from (mainly?) Spanish stations (2120z) - what contest? There's nothing listed on the WA7BNM Contest Calendar - where do all these contests come from?
- QSY to 60m
- CQ 60m 5260kHz
- called by G0GZN - Lindy - Poole - BVp - RCh - discussed the heavy rain today, I apologized in case my Bug sounded like “a bag of spanners” and was told it didn't (phew!), her holiday in Cornwall and the Shetland TV Detective series.
- I get worried using a bug with people who aren't “bug people” - they can be an acquired taste and when the “swing” is exaggerated can be very difficult to read unless “it's your thing”. I try to make my sending as “neutral” as possible, without hiding the fact that it's not from an electronic keyer - bland and homogenous. It's a fine line between “a fist with personality” and “speech impediment”!
- QSY 30m
- 30m heard Bug-Bug QSO between IK4EWX and OH2EA - for FOC “Bug Day”
- IK4EWX called CQ BUG DAY and was answered by a Russian station….. I waited and then called him myself
- QSO IK4EWX (FOC?)- Ian - nr Ferrara - BVc/BVp - RCh - would love a longer chat when more time/less QSB & QRN - lots of Rain Static during QSO. Bug CW was “Music to my ears” - You Tube video potential….
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