On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:53:20 -0500, Gene
wrote:

On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:50:42 -0500, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

Messing around the lower end of 75 tonight listening to the high speed
traffic nets (yeah - they still exist much to my delight). Once they
closed down, I moved down the band to 3.520.50 and heard a faint call.
I switched from my 80 dipole to the long wire and got a couple of
extra s units - HS0B - thought I was hearing things. I was already
tuned up - gave a shout and damn if he didn't hear me. :)

Must have been long path - there was a lot of fade, but we got the QSO
exchange and quick name exchange before the pile up started. I tried
listening through the QRM - he was still there, but really faint.

Must have hot spotted.

Interesting anyway - the low bands seem really mediocre. I handed out
a few Qs today for the CW WW CW - maybe 200 in all - Europe turned on
and off like a freakin light switch. Same with the JAs which are
normally all over 20 meters around sundown.

Damn global warming.

I blame Canada.

Wow - now I'm hearing all kinds of UAs - band shifted quick.

Hmmm - me thinks it's time to inspect the Beverages. :)

WOW! I'd make that about 8,600 miles..... impressive!

Just worked UA9AB long path on 40 meters - cw - and the gray line
isn't in my favor. No fade and I got a 579 - 10 watts into that G5RV
I have hanging at 45 feet.

I don't know what the hell I did when I built that antenna, but it's
incredibly resonant on 40 and 20.

Don't know if this will capture the gray line at the time of QSO, but
we'll give it the old college try.

http://tinyurl.com/65rwhg

And they said CW was a dead mode.

HA!!! :)