[Elecraft] VP8SGI

[w7aqk]

The boys on South Georgia Island have been conspicuously absent today from 
the DX Cluster I use (VE7CC).  I did see a comment that they were "working 
on antennas", which may indicate a reason why it has been so hard to hear 
them above 30 meters.  I heard them much better from Sandwich, although not 
really loud.  30 meters was best for some reason!  Anyway, I assumed, and 
probably inappropriately, that South Georgia might be a somewhat more 
hospitable environment for them and their antennas.  Hopefully their absence 
today means they recognize some sort of problem, and will be able to fix it. 
I only have them on 30 and 20 from South Georgia.  The propagation Gods may 
be at fault here!  Yesterday on both 17 and 15 I could hear just a whisper 
from them, but the QSB was so bad I couldn't be sure of much that they sent. 
The east coast, mid-west,  and Europe seem to be doing a lot better than 
some of us here in the hinterlands of the west.  Of course, since I don't 
have a beam I'm semi-crippled anyway, but usually I do better than this.

Dave W7AQK