GW4VXE's Station Diary

Power interruption from 0930 to 1330 today, so not much radio planned until later!

Had a bit of a play in the 13z CWT as the power came back early. Conditions on the higher bands seemed poor - next to nothing on 15m. Nice to catch Jim K6AR on 20m though. Knowing Jim, that was probably long path! 15m brightened up in the late afternoon;AI5IN in Texas and Joe AI0Y in North Dakota.

Nice sunny day, so mostly outside doing mowing and strimming!

The 19z CWT was better than expected with some some west coast stations workable on 15m - curiously I seemed to be louder there than some of the US stations calling them. KH7X was around too, but in Arizona and not Hawaii! Another interesting QSO was with Adrian KO8SCA. I presume he's on the boat back from Bouvet so he'd have been remoting to his home station from the Southern Ocean.

Interesting to hear TX5EU on 15m around 2200z - they had a big US pileup, so didn't make any headway with that. Also CY0S opened up on 40m around the same time.