GW4VXE's Station Diary

Storm Dave went through last night, so I'd dropped the 80/40/15m mast down. Winds were normal this morning, so I've put it back up again. Still on the smaller vertical for HF. VHF conditions have moved away to the east now.

There's an SP contest on HF which I don't feel enthused about, so just been turning around on 17m this morning - a couple of Russian special event calls as well as EA8A.

Interestingly, I put the 6m rig on the vertical today, thinking that there might be some early Es around and having the vertical on means you can listen in all directions. Didn't hear any Es, but around 1910z I copied PY5CC and PP5ZP, probably the only stations I've heard outside the UK on 6m all day.

17m pretty quiet this evening, so popped onto 20m CW and worked Brian WB4IT in Alabama followed by Sandro I7ALE.