[ILQSO] W9DY/m preliminary info

[Bud Frohardt]

Hi,   Thanks, everyone, for making this a most enjoyable QP yesterday.  Condx were good here on the north end of Illinois.  I was surprised to be able to read so many far south stations which usually were esp quality in many previous years.  By the way,  Cook county was especially scarce and 339 in my 2 or 3 QSOs.  
 
My time was limited to 11:30 to 4:30 including almost 2 hours of travel time, HI.  
105 QSOs fairly balanced between Dupage and Kendall counties on 20 and 40 CW.  
Could not get my Outbacker to resonate on 80 even tho that feature was one of the reasons for my buying it.   It does wonders on other bands with its almost 12 foot length.  That keeps my wife happy since operation in motion would not work with that height.  
 
One Question.   Did anyone else notice a few minutes of both 20 and 40 going almost dead around 1930 to 1944 UTC?    NM9C was V E R Y weak on 40 and we must have made over a dozen repeats before a full exchange was made.  He was 339 until 1944 when all of a sudden he jumped up to 599 plus.  When he gave his ADAM at 1944 he was so much stronger I thought some do-gooder was trying to relay the info to me.  But it was just NM9C.  If he had a 5KW amp suddenly turned on,  maybe that would account for the phenomenon but the whole band came to life at the same time.   I don't think it was my radio but maybe so.   Anyone able to confirm a jump in TX and RX condx at 1944?  
 
73  Bud Frohardt,   W9DY/m