The 40m band is in very odd shape tonight. It was WAY better yesterday but isn't that always the way things go...or so it seems.
Last night I worked Iowa again, this time it was Chris WU1A/0 from Polk City Iowa. The exchange was very brief, RST, Name and QTH sort of thing and the band went ugly. Based on his QRZ page he's about 55 years old and an Extra. I sure appreciate him pulling out my QRP signals. I got a rock solid 2 way 599. Thanks Chris!
Tonight right after I got home from work I got on the air for an hour and scrounged up one contact, and that was Jason N3YUG from Maryland. A new contact but not a new state. I tried to talk him into driving over to Delaware and working me but he couldn't do it. So right now I am still stuck at 30 states. Jason is a busy ham, he's earned DXCC, WAS, Triple Play, and is SKCC 15885T. He has a cool looking BitX 40 that he built and he has a nice collection of old regen receivers. Check him out on QRZ.
Right now the band is suffering from this: SSN:0 SFI:80 A:9 K:1
THAT is an improvement from just an hour ago...so maybe things are swinging back, I may try to get back on a little later.
I am impatiently awaiting an adapter plug so I can use my Norcal Keyer Rev 2 on the HW8. Nothing worse than waiting on the mailman to bring you a new toy...or a QSL Card.
73 de KB9BVN
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