A reality check.
I mentioned in an earlier post that I was hoping to work YS1G on CW (morse code) this week for an all time new one in the form of El Salvador. It’s looking very much like that will be a lot more difficult than I expected.
I have so far heard them on 17m late into my evening and on 40m early my morning. I’ve not yet heard them fully readable and there is deep fading on their signal. At best they are peaking 475 on my random wire antenna but only for a few seconds at a time. Most of the time they are inaudible down in the noise.
I will listen in a few more late evenings in the hope propagation peaks on one of those nights. Early mornings are more difficult but I might get one last chance early morning on Saturday the 23rd when they report that they will be on air ‘early GMT’ before packing up to head back to the UK.
I’ll keep fingers crossed but for now my expectations are revised to a ‘nice if it happens’ rather than the ‘expecting to work them’ of previous weeks.