Good conditions on 80m SSB this morning and on Tuesday as well. My 3 loop delta array has been broken for a couple of weeks. I fixed it yesterday and this morning I talked with Taka, JQ2SIX. He was 58 and gave me a 59. The band is still noisy, but signals were good. I heard VK2ZF 59 but he was busy with East Coast guys and then went QRT quickly.
Barry, W9UCW, got his receiving array fixed just in time to leave TX for a two week trip up north. He and Linda, W5TRV, should be back on the band around the first of November.
We have had more rain, earlier than usual this year and much more noise in the mornings on 80m. Much of the noise has been from storms in the Gulf and the U.S.
73 from my corner of paradise. Jay, HP3AK
