[TVARC] Montserrat update - Saturday

[mike regan]

 Sorry about all that...At least the view is nice...
    On Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 12:18:13 PM EDT, GEORGE BRIGGS via TVARC <tvarc at mailman.qth.net> wrote:  
 
    Everything seemed ready to go last night at 8:00 when the contest started. I had the first two hours. Since 20m was open to Europe and the USA, I started there. I got a great frequency to call CQs and put about 300 contacts in the log. Dennis and Ray followed and were able to stay right on that frequency. When I rotated back in, I switched to 40m and did pretty well. Then the wheels came off. Common practice is to try 80m on the hour overnight. When I went there I discovered that our 80m dipole didn’t work as well as we thought. Its SWR was very high. I was able to tune the dipole using an external antenna tuner that I sent down here years ago, but that caused lots of RF in the shack. The stray RF got into the logging computer and drove me crazy. (Yes, I serve cheese with that whine.🤪)   Oh, and at some point we killed our second K3 around sunrise, so we are down to one station.   And did I mention the huge solar flare/eruption that is disturbing propagation?   we stand at something over 1300 contacts.   Oh, and the picture is my view as I write this.😁   73,   George  ______________________________________________________________
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