It was hard going sometimes - high levels of QRN/QSB on 20m and 10/15m unusable most of the time. Even the special GB0GKB callsign couldn't attract many contacts, although the fact that I couldn't operate on 30/40/80m probably had more to do with it. Good fun though.
It was hard going here in GM-land. Lots of QRM/QRN, variable propagation and deep QSB. It sounded like the south of England and N. European stations were working a lot of stations I just couldn’t hear. Still, there’s always next year to look forward to.
This time MRD was a big disappointment for me. I’d just had detached retina surgery and my vision was pretty bad. I normally use computer logging but I couldn’t even see the screen and only stayed on air for a couple of hours! So to those who regularly work GLV – my apologies.
I managed two QSOs with Hong Kong stations. One ship and one coast. I must have worked that operator many times when I was on Swire ships in and out of HK. No EU or US stations heard. Conditions were rock bottom.
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