GW4VXE's Station Diary

Conditions definitely not great today - I checked the RTTY on 10101 on my little ATS-Mini around 0800 and it was barely audible! That's how bad it was.

Spent a little time revamping the 'storm' vertical as yesterday I'd spotted that one of the elements had become disconnected. I reworked the feed to clean it up and hopefully make it a bit more robust.

Conditions definitely poor! Spent a little while calling 3B8VV (G3WVG) on 15m for a while but didn't seem to get anywhere in the afternoon. Managed a few VE & W stations on 20m in the evening, but decidedly hard going. Worked PY1KO on 20m too, who was curiously fluttery - odd, given the path.

And another surprise - just before closing, I heard Darrel AA7FV on 18MHz CW. Darrel's in Arizona, so it was unusual that he was coming through, but there were practically no other signals on the band, apart from FT8.