09-10-2013, 08:00 PM
Date: Oct. 9, '13.
Time: 20:40 hrs., std. U.K. time.
Freq.: 7142 kHz.
Mode: SSB (LSB)
QSB: none.
QRN: very little.
QRM: loads - often S9+
I'm getting towards the end of the overhaul of a Racal RA-17W, so I thought I'd run a quick 'air-test' on it: tuned in to the Amateur Radio 40 m. band: absolute bedlam on 7142 kHz; classic pile-up. Somewhere underneath the racket there is a DX station. Just once, using the vertical aerial, I did manage to catch a bit of his call: I think his prefix was 'PZ', wherever that is. Seemed like half of the Amateurs in western Europe were trying to work him. I head the usual German DK, DL, DJ calls; plus EA, CT, I1, I9, ON, HB9, F, etc. But, strangely, not one G: probably skip. So I switched over to the 'T' 'long-wire' aerial: nope, but the bedlam was weaker!
Al. / Skywave.
Time: 20:40 hrs., std. U.K. time.
Freq.: 7142 kHz.
Mode: SSB (LSB)
QSB: none.
QRN: very little.
QRM: loads - often S9+
I'm getting towards the end of the overhaul of a Racal RA-17W, so I thought I'd run a quick 'air-test' on it: tuned in to the Amateur Radio 40 m. band: absolute bedlam on 7142 kHz; classic pile-up. Somewhere underneath the racket there is a DX station. Just once, using the vertical aerial, I did manage to catch a bit of his call: I think his prefix was 'PZ', wherever that is. Seemed like half of the Amateurs in western Europe were trying to work him. I head the usual German DK, DL, DJ calls; plus EA, CT, I1, I9, ON, HB9, F, etc. But, strangely, not one G: probably skip. So I switched over to the 'T' 'long-wire' aerial: nope, but the bedlam was weaker!
Al. / Skywave.