Swarm of bees
A couple of days ago, I posted a recent QSL card from WB0BEE. He is now the fourth BEE that I’ve worked. The four include W2BEE, W3BEE, WB6BEE, and WB0BEE. Does this qualify as a “swarm” of BEEs?
Two W3UYs
Last night, I worked W3UY. After I punched his call into my computer, a previous contact from February 2010 with W3UY popped up. As it turns out, that was a different W3UY. The fellow I worked in 201 was named Larry, and this W3UY is Jerry, and he just got his license in January.
I know this is to be expected. After all, the FCC can’t retire every call sign, but this is the first time that I can recall working two different guys with the same call. I wish that I’d had more information about Larry, W3UY, to pass on to Jerry, W3UY.
80m QRN
Last night, I worked Eric, NI4E, in North Carolina. He noted that I had decent signal strength, but that he was having a little trouble copying me because of the high atmospheric noise level. I received a similar report a week or so ago from another NC ham.
The odd thing is that both times the noise level was relatively low here. Last night, there were occasional crashes, but in general, the noise level was low, and I had no trouble copying here.
That got me thinking about what could be going on. The first guy said that he thought the storms causing his QRN were offshore. Could it be that the noise was just not strong enough to propagate to Michigan? What do you think?