[WVDXA] BS7H QRT TIME

[W8OI at aol.com]

You're a good guy, Greg.
 
I bet I've sent my call a thousand plus times with legeal limit power into  4 
elements at 56 feet, 99% of it on 20 CW.  I've been at the radio  virtually 
all my waking hours (minus quick sandwich and bathroom breaks).   It's so 
frustrating.  I have never heard such pileups before.  I've  never had such trouble 
working a DXpedition that had decent signals.   The problem is that the rest 
of the world gets an even better signal from BS7  (and sends stronger ones 
back) so they don't hear us unless they are  asking for NA only.  Yesterday they 
were S6 or S7 from 7 to 9:30 a.m. and  S3 or S4 from then until past 3 p.m. 
but except for a couple of hours in  the morning all I heard them working was 
Europe, hundreds of DL's.  Today's  morning session was not as good, peaking S4 
and this afternoon was about S1 to  S2 at my location, but I heard them pretty 
much constantly, and still do as I  write this.
 
I think it's possible that I am in their log from yesterday morning on 20  
CW.  But I'm not sure because the operator was sending 45 WPM and there was  
QRM.  If not, I'm beginning to think this one will go down as a week wasted  here.
 
Frustrated, big time.  And this is supposed to be fun.
 
Garry, W8OI

I've  never had this much trouble getting a cw qso before, thank god I lucked 
into  my ssb qso. My prefered mode is cw but feel guilty calling them on cw, 
because  so many still need him anyway they can get him.....so i'm just gonna 
qrt on  him and send my qsl off to KU9C....Good luck guys my prayers are with  
you.....Greg, W8GG


 



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