When I work from JO57TX I am using a very small shack atop Tjörn Island. The rotor system is based upon the famous brand "Armstrong" which means that I spend 50% of the time outdoors turning the antenna. Cold it is!!! This special evening the wind gusts were well above 20 m/s and making a hell of audio noise. The whole shack was rattling in the wind and I had problems standing on my feet walking down the hill finishing the test as early as before 20UT (this has nothing to do with what SM6MVE recommended me to drink). Anyhow for stations that called me and got no reply there are a few problems causing the issues: 1. The wind made a terrible noise although I was using headphones when trying to turn the antenna. (I heard nothing when being outdoors). 2. The wind decided the antenna direction more than me. 3. Out of my control is: I have this year got a terrible HF noise in the direction NE (SM4/SM5/SM0) limiting the use of degrees 30-90 to nothing. Anyhow thanks for the QSO I made and hope for better conds next month. I thought that May was the bottom, but this was in all cases worse: The wind, temp at +14 deg and no conds. I laughed at myself when deciding to bring the winter jacket. A very wise decision!!! Some rain would have made the evening a success! Looking for a new hilltop to bring my equipment with less QRN! (Closer to home is also a vital parameter). All tips are welcome! 73 Håkan SF6X (SM6CEN) Comment on contest NAC 432 MHz de SF6X _______________________________________________________________________ Contest: NAC 432 MHz Call: SF6X Section: A Loc : JO57TX Date: 20080610 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Band | TOTAL | QSO-POINTS | BAD | LOC-POINTS | QRB KM | | 432M | 15429 | 32 6929 | 0 | 17 8500 | DH8BQA 557 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Station description : 432M : ----432M----432M----432M----432M----432M----432M----432M---- DX Date Time Call Loc Bnd Mod QRB QTE 1 20080610 1709 DH8BQA JO73CE 432M CW 557 162 2 20080610 1746 SM3BEI JP81NG 432M CW 479 38 3 20080610 1930 DK0IZ JO43SX 432M SSB 464 197 4 20080610 1810 DL0VV JO64AD 432M CW 428 176 5 20080610 1722 SK1BL JO97HK 432M CW 420 95 6 20080610 1919 SM1NJC JO97DO 432M CW 398 93 7 20080610 1738 OZ6HY JO45WA 432M SSB 347 199 8 20080610 1835 SM7NR JO76RC 432M SSB 312 130 9 20080610 1742 OZ1DLD/P JO45SK 432M SSB 310 205 10 20080610 1807 SK7MW JO65MJ 432M SSB 300 163 Worked Locator JO43: 1 JO45: 4 JO46: 3 JO56: 1 JO57: 2 JO58: 3 JO59: 1 JO64: 1 JO65: 2 JO67: 3 JO68: 4 JO73: 1 JO76: 1 JO78: 1 JO79: 1 JO97: 2 JP81: 1 Worked DXCC SM :19 DL : 3 LA : 1 OZ : 9 MODE: SSB=71% CW=28% PROP: TR=100% ----------------------------------------------------------- LOGGER 1.21 (http://welcome.to/logger) by Ulf/SM0LCB