[Lowfer] Shropshire Lad Makes Good on 2200 m WSPR2

[J D]

The usual abundance of stations on 2200 was absent tonight--only two 
were present for the first six hours of monitoring, and K3RWR's Opera.  
The scarcity turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Suddenly, Chris 
2E0ILY showed up in my WSPR decodes at 0500 UTC, with an SNR of -30 over 
a distance of 6961 km/4316 miles, reportedly using 0.5 W.

In that particular time slot, 37 other reporters in Europe decoded his 
signal also; one was less than half the distance, while most were less 
than a tenth. On this side of the pond, N03M managed seven spots at 
different times of the evening. Eric is about a thousand miles closer to 
the UK than I am, on nearly the same Great Circle path.

2E0ILY is the station that had the first 2200 m UK-US QSO with N1BUG 
after the band was finally allocated here. That contact was made at 
considerably slower speeds in March 2018.

Happy New Year!

John D