On 2/26/2024 10:28 PM, Ed Gray W0SD wrote:
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Subject: 630 antenna AZ
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:04:36 -0600
From: Ed Gray W0SD <[email protected]>
To: WB0TEM Marc <[email protected]>
CC: Ed Gray W0SD <[email protected]>

I am using a flagpole antenna and a top loading coil with a short whip.  I am adding inductance at the base here at Destiny RV Resort in Goodyear, AZ.  I have two locations approved in AZ.   On WSPR I had 20 unique reports up to 2700 KM.  On FST4 (W0SD/7) I have worked KM5SW and W0SD operated by KT0W.   I have been copied by WB0TEM on FST4.  I hear my AZ signal from DM33 very regularly at -19 to -26 at W0SD.  I have been transmitting odd around 1105.  I am running about 35 watts.  So far the propagation for W0SD/7 is the best from 0630z tp 0730z.  I have not been up past 0730z yet.  Conditions seem better tonight as I heard W0SD/7 in SD just after dark here.  I can operate my 630M station in SD using Starlink and remote desktop to control my computer using WSJT  and K3S and remote hams if necessary which most of time it is not needed.  The main think is it permits turing the K3S on and off.

My noise here is much lower than at Quartzfest.  It is just under S-9.  I have copied several stations here but they have not heard me.
Ed W0SD