[OKDXA] Reunion Island

[Roger Simpson]

Jeff:

Thanks for the putting up the note about FR5DZ Reunion.   I saw the note 
about a half an hour ago. So I cranked back up my tower and removed a 
few branches that had fallen on the sides of my sloping dipole for 30m.  
  By the time I got everything tuned up for 30m and started lilstening of 
FT8 I heard the FR5 working other stateside stations. After a minute or 
so he called CQ and I worked  him on the first call. I guess everything 
is OK here after the ice storm -- at least the sloping dipoles for 30m 
and 40m are working.

Yesterday afternoon quite a lot of ice starting melting off the elements 
and boom of the beam. I am going to test it now to see if it is working 
OK.  During the ice storm the traps were encased in a pipe of ice that 
was about 3/8" thick. When I look up there now it seems to have all 
melted.

BTW, As I type this at 14:00 UTC FT5DZ is still calling CQ on FT8 at an 
offset of 880Hz away from 10.136 Mhz. On my sloping dipole his signal is 
-15 dB.

73  Roger   Oklahoma City