W1ZY in Rhode Island on 40m is something a regular with me -
Bill
runs an interesting antenna project based on verticals near salt
water. Bill's QRZ page is one of the all too rare "destination
pages" on QRZ and a must read.
Bill is often to be found on 40m around these
times, and eager to get reports from Europe and anywhere he can
be heard.
This is a slightly different type of
trophy - a complete overheard session. Starting with the first
CQ at the far end. One of the delights of
40m is that you often get to hear both ends of the call, unlike
the higher frequency bands.
I heard Bill making his first CQ
call on what was a remarkably quiet 40m, when he was right at
the back of the box. You can hear the signal climb up over the
course of the recording that started at 20:42z
2017-04-09T23-16-15Z_7138kHz - ...a bit
of earwigging a few days later, I heard Bill talking to Ahmed (5t2ai) about
antennas - more interesting stuff. Getting noisy, so extra audio
work required.
The
signal on the waterfall
Always a good signal, in the clear.
LEFT was early in
the session, the right hand spectrum is from a later session
showing a perfect distribution with roll off below 300Hz. (Why
do so many DX operators retain low frequency audio when it
conveys no information?)
