[OKDXA] Nice 40 m cdx last night

[Kim Elmore]

After the my harmonics were in bed last night, I had a bit of time to play 
on the radio as I was trying to figure out just what it is about the 
combination of my USB hubs and serial-to-USB adapters that causes a Windows 
2000 BSOD on shutdown (no, I haven't figured it out, yet). I heard a N9 
with a walloping signal calling CQ DX on 160 m for quite a while, but he 
had no takers. 160 seemed to be very quiet last night, so I expect that if 
there were anything to hear, I'd have a chance of hearing it.  I listened 
on 80 a bit, too, but heard nothing there, so I went down to 40.

I worked some DX on 40, though nothing terribly rare.  I worked a T94, an 
OM8 and heard RA9NA, but when I tried calling him, was pounced on by an 
OK1.  I never fail to find this odd, since I've always been under the 
impression that US stations are common as dirt so there's nothing much 
unusual about working one of us.  There were apparently a couple of VU2's 
that were active, but I never heard them; I don't think they hung around 
very long.

73,

Kim Elmore, N5OP

                           Kim Elmore, Ph.D.
                        University of Oklahoma
         Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
"All of weather is divided into three parts: Yes, No, and Maybe. The
greatest of these is Maybe" The original Latin appears to be garbled.