I have been playing around practically every day since my last blog.\u00a0 I’ve been trying to see how far away I can establish a WinLink (email) contact.\u00a0 My best so far is the Cayman Islands which is 1,300 nm away.\u00a0 While I technically knew this all along I am beginning to appreciate antenna orientation.\u00a0 As I have a basic horizontal antenna my sensitivity and signal strength are both strongest perpendicular to my antenna.\u00a0 The orientation of my outdoor antenna was chose for convenience and it transpires is about as far off as I could make it to listen in on the eastern Caribbean traffic.\u00a0 Sounds like more tree work next weekend.<\/p>\n

I had my very first verbal exchange today.\u00a0 Some chap down in Virgina was busy collecting contacts.\u00a0 I gladly gave him mine.\u00a0 I was nervous about this as I really didn’t know quite what to say.\u00a0 However, he obtained my call sign which is what he needed for his collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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