VK9NI Episode 3: 40m this evening "I'll have it one day, I'll have it"

Hi all,

I've been waiting all today for tis evening possible "skip" to Norfolk on 40m. He was spotted by some East-Central Europe around 2 hours before their sunset....I'll have 2 hours to wait hoping for the skip to turn in my direction (which had been the case recently for VK9LA, worked in both morning/evening side here !)

Cluster spots showed some skip going more to the West and South (some DL and Italians) but then, they stopped 40m for a while....I went back, 2 hours before my sunset (so at 17:45 GMT), they were spotted by some russians on 7150...(Unfortunately, we, in France, are STILL NOT ALLOWED to go from 7.1 to 7.2MHz...Another long French story !!!!). Anyway, I tried to listen, but only had crashes and QRN here (stormy weather !).

The, they went to CW where I could guess them, but not that strong here....And here we are, first spots on 20m (even by some EU....but as usually, many callers, few listeners. I was happy to have Norfolk already confirmed on 20/17/15m, HI !!!!!!!)

We'll see tomorrow morning on 40m long path. It has been said that they now have a 2 el vertical antenna, always better than their earlier dipole !

Anyway, I could get ES5GP/8 from IOTA EU178 (new IOTA, just have 30 left for all EU ITOA's !!!!!!)

Good luck to all,
Ronan, F8AFC