OPERATING Notes: Bands heating up, IC-2820H, CW Skimmer

OPERATING Notes: Bands heating up, IC-2820H, CW Skimmer

The bands finally seem to be heating up. I’ve managed to make European contacts nearly every day for the past week. Just last night, I called CQ on 40m just before 0000Z and got a reply from an LZ3. He was S5 here, but since I wasn’t expecting a DX call, I had to get him to repeat his call for me. Of course, it didn’t help that he’d only sent it once—DX style—in the first place.

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The Secret Storm Approaching CW Contesting…

The Secret Storm Approaching CW Contesting…

As a small child, my grandmother and mother both watched several “soap operas,” including the Secret Storm. The opening of Secret Storm showed violent waves crashing on the shoals, something I’d never seen being raised in Middle Georgia. My grandmother especially used to flinch and react to the plot-line drama there, something that I took note of even if to laugh to myself as a small boy.

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