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Monday, January 8, 2018

Missing DX Stations

1-8-2018 -- Where have all of the DX stations gone?  The last 2 mornings have been a total washout.  It is truly ironic that the only 2 new DX stations that I have worked in several weeks were both BH4 stations from China ... the land of the evening OTH Radar!  (Early morning in Panama and the U.S.)  I do believe that the #$%^&! Chinese have ruined the 75m DX Window from 1000 - 1200Z or later every day!!!  Poor Abe, JA1MSS, tries but cannot copy much due to the *&^%$# radar.  I guess that the only solution is to get Trump to tweet about it.
1-9-18 -- No radar, but no one trying...until after my sunrise.
1-10-18 -- Abe worked Phil & Barry, but only 2 x ESP with me.
1-11-18 -- No DX except Abe working Phil.  However, there was ENTERTAINMENT in the form of sniping on the DX cluster by people who should know better.  It looked like a "tweet storm" from the 'child-in-charge'.  Personally, I would need a much stronger signal to see anything outside of the 3 kHz normal bandwidth.  One advantage of an SDR receiver is that it does not show trash if it is not present...unless of course the ADC is overloaded. That takes something like -23 dBm (50/S9) and shows as a warning in the rx window.  Then it is simple enough to add attenuation before the rx antenna input (not in the later stages).
1-12-18 -- RADAR
1-13-18 -- No radar, band open, worked 2 JA & heard DS3EXX, but he had QRM from YB calling "contest".  *&%^$#@! 


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