Saturday Night Live With VK9DWX

I heard VK9DWX Willis Island 2008 (link) last night on 20m CW at 14.023 listening up 3 kilohertz. Better than normal propagation numbers helped my listening situation. But, when the dits hit the dahs, my signal comes down to antenna.

Their signal punched through and I configured the FT100 for split operation. Then I called VK9DWX in a 2 KHz wide pile-up. The competition was fierce. You could sense each operators determination to log Willis Island. Twenty meters definitely is the North American band of choice according to the statistics (link).

Disappointment only drives motivation. And I'm building out KA3DRR along the lines of a DXpedition model. The process takes time and in between is a whole lot of patience.

73 from the shackadelic.