GW4VXE's Station Diary

Spent the morning writing the PW VHF column. It was tempting to get involved with the 3Y0K chase because I could see various people talking about making QSOs.

Got the column finished and looked on 17m where they were pretty weak. Weak-ish too on 12m, but they had 5 streams going, so I guessed things should be better there. Just as I was sending off the VHF column, I saw Don G3XTT work them on 12m. Called for a few minutes without getting anywhere and suddenly all the 5 streams peaked up beautifully and I was SO pleased to complete a QSO. No repeats - done! Hopefully it's not a pirate!

3Y0K in the log!

I was hoping to get a QSO in today, particularly as with the A index climbing, I wondered if we'd see some enhancement today and potentially a crash afterwards. We'll see.

So often I seem to struggle to work an expedition and then several QSOs come in all at once. So it was today - adding 3Y0K on 17m and then 15m. I did try for a while on 40m FT8 but perhaps that was being greedy.

Some nice CW QSOs to round off the evening; ZD7AQH on 40m, 8Q7ZW on 20m (new country on CW) and, just as I was about to switch off, J51A who I'd worked on 20m FT8 but not CW.