GW4VXE's Station Diary

Didn't get to the shack until later on as a busy morning with visitors and work here. Both Paul G4RRA and Andy GW0KZG had kindly messaged to say that Yuri UT1FG/MM was in IO22 on 2m FT8. Yuri is apparently running 20W as his amplifier is not working. I saw a few isolated decodes from him during the morning but gave him a random call when I got to the shack and somewhat unbelievably, he came back! Even better, it turned out that he was just crossing into IO23, so a few minutes later, I was able to work him from there as well.

On Facebook, Yuri says that he will be travelling through IO33 and IO34 later, although that might be tough from here. We'll see!

Pleased to work Bob EX0T on 17m CW just after lunch and when we got back from popping over to the clock mender at Strumble Head, Yuri was on from IO33 - new square number 3 for the day on 2m.

A couple of US/250 stations worked on 15m CW and then SU9VB - not new, but Egypt is always pretty rare.

Around 1900z a very marginal QSO with UT1FG/MM from IO34, but to my surprise it was completed ok. Tomorrow he will be heading up the western coast of Scotland before heading over to Norway. I think it'll be a bit of an ask to make any QSOs tomorrow, but it just takes a bit of tropo in the right direction.