[Lowfer] SAQ No Go in SE Kansas

[Zack Widup]

We have a local contesting club that had a station out in the country
a few miles south of town. The building was a ramshackle 2-story house
owned by the University of Illinois. They let us use one small room in
it. The best thing was we had a tribander on a tower at 120 feet and
dipoles for 40 and 80 at about 80 feet. I don't have a beam at home so
I made frequent trips there.

The building had electricity but no running water and no heat. It got
really cold in there in the winter. We used space heaters to try to
heat it but when I was there by myself, usually about the time it
started getting warm I had to leave.

It's hard to send CW when it's 20 degrees and your fingers don't work!

73, Zack W9SZ


On 12/24/11, JD <listread at lwca.org> wrote:
> The racket I observed earlier in the evening was gone from 17.2 kHz when I
> got back to the field.  I was concerned to find HBG and DCF77, which had
> been so good before sunset, nearly gone.  Then, about 0745 UTC, the
> caterwauling returned.
>
> I tried to console myself with other monitoring, but it was just too cold.
> I did at least hear JJY (40 kHz) better than ever before.  About 0830, it
> was a good 12 dB stronger than DCF77.
>
> Amazing quantities of frost!
>
> John D
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