I felt like I had the DX hammer yesterday evening. My first QSO of the session was with an F5 who gave me a nice report. Next, was a CO6, although I’m not counting that as an official QSO because the signal faded before we could exchange info.
The final DX contact was with a ZS6 (South Africa). We had a nice chat about snow–or the lack thereof in MI and SA. Unfortunately, his signal began to fade, and the QRM got bad as well, after about 20 minutes. I hope to contact him again sometime.
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I’m not exactly sure why this is, but my ground plane antenna seems to work better when there’s a layer of snow on the ground. Maybe the snow forms a better reflector? When the snow melted earlier in the week, the SWR was a little higher, and I didn’t seem to get out as well.
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