Howdy DXers,

Episode 2... Sunday .. the next day with a working antenna!

I got up Sunday and I had my DXBase logging software running in the background while took care of other chores. The software is set up as to only alert me when a spot comes in for a new band country for me.  Additionally, I have filters on the node so that I only get spots from North America. (I could care less that a new band country is being heard in Japan, as an example.)  The computer went crazy with alerts when 3B7M started being heard in the USA on 10 metes, which is a new band country for me and I knew that 3B6 was an ATNO for K4FK!   I thought, oh well.. the band will probably close before I can get to the club station.  I was wrong. I looked at VOACAP and got this:


Wow!  The bands, 10-20 meters, was projected to be open to 3B7 pretty much all day!

I packed up and headed to the station and arrived around 10 AM.

Conditions were good!  I was able to work them on 10 and 12 meters for myself for new band countries and I was able to work them on all 3 modes and 4 bands for K4FK.  I left around 5.  It was a good day!  Now for FT8WW, but he never shows up until late in our evening.

73,
Randy N4QV