This activity will certainly not be the one we had the most fun: Always fighting with a permanently present noise level degrading our rx performance while knowing many ham friends are desperately calling us and hoping for us to return with their callsign is no joy. Here it was always a question of how to minimize the noise effects. Luckily we could mitigate that problem a little after day one finding an inhouse noise source which we could stop. Without it we would maybe have made some 50 QSOs altogther only, now we are at least at 126.
To make things worse were were called on tropo by some EA7 stations which made reception of EME impossible. Though we replied their JT65 tropo call they continued calling us, apparently not having decoded our reply or not knowing how to react to this strange OOO report.
Some 30 minutes were lost with an issue of our switching logic for hpol/vpol but at least that could easily be rectified.
After intense discussions we decided to set up for 432 MHz for the 18th and 19th, hoping we have less noise there. We are extremely sorry for those who missed out on us, it is no good feeling as our intension is always to give the new DXCC/grid to everyone needing it. So sad...
So...off to 432 MHz now
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