Karen and Matt from Where II came aboard last night. We had a great time getting to know each other and sharing lessons learned. As we didn’t finish all the nibbles we agreed for round 2 on their boat this evening.
Today I’ve spent some time aboard Where II helping Matt investigate poor performance on his SSB – perhaps some of the head banging I’ve done aboard Dignity will come in use. We managed to prove it does actually work (voice and email) and figured out one anomaly which may or may not be an issue – the antenna ground was directly connected to the boat DC ground. I’ve heard conflicting stories on this so we’re trying to see if it’s any better without this connection.
The overall shortwave environment is lousy right now and this morning on our own eqipment (not sure if it is location specific) was very crackly on the morning Coconut Telegraph (or nut net as it’s often referred to). So a poor connection seems to be about as good as it gets. We’ll try again a little later when reception is usually a bit better.
Apart from this not a lot else done today. That’s quite ok. Looking forward to round 2 this evening.
