I was glad to have been able to participate in the Zombie Shuffle this past Friday evening. Oh, the reason it was last Friday and not this coming Friday (which is actually closer to Halloween) is that this coming weekend is the CQ WW DX Contest.
The bands were not friendly. In fact 20 Meters was so dead that it didn't even support any "undead" Zombies. That left 40 and 80 Meters. I've seen on QRP-L that for many, 80 Meters was fruitful, but for me it was not. Right around the QRP watering hole of 3.560 MHz, I had S7 to S9 noise. Not sure what is causing it, but the lower parts of 80 Meters were as they always are. Even so, I did manage one QSO on 80 Meters with my not so far away neighbor, W2SH.
The rest of my QSOs were made on 40 Meters, all five of them. A grand total of six QSOs in the span of about two hours. Pretty dismal, huh? Yeah, pretty dismal.
72 de Larry W2LJ
QRP - When you care to send the very least!
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