On my way in to work this morning, I turned on the 9020 to see if anyone was on. 20 has been wierd and dead for the last few days while the magnetic storms work their way out of the local space (K=5, anyone?).
As usual at 7:00 CDT, nothing going on on the band, until I hear a faint signal around 14.020 MHz. It's Frantz, FG5FR in Guadaloupe, who I have heard on before. In the space of 2 or 3 minutes, he goes from S2 to S9+, and I work him getting a 579 report. As I listen, he works several more US stations before I have to shut down and go inside.
He also spent quite a while calling CQ DX with no answers, so I advise listening on 20 just after sunrise for some good DX.
On another subject, I have decided to discontinue QSL card display on this page when the count reaches 60 cards. Anything above that would make load times excessive, so after number 60 arrives, I will move the QSL wall to its own page.
Maybe I'll put blogads in that empty real estate.
Posted in DX by WA5ICA at April 17, 2006 01:27 PM