On 40mb Amateur Radio In The Morning

Date:February 14,2022

Place Of Monitoring:Abhayapuri(Assam)(India) NL56hi

RX:Grundig Yacht Boy 80

Long wire end feed antenna (75ft L 33ft H..75sqmm Cu wire multistranded) RG6 cable ..with a splitter box circuit with T50-6 toroid at RX end 

Monitored Mode:J3E Class of emission(Amateur Stations)

All time mentioned  in Indian Standard Time(ist) and where possible in Coordinated Universal Time(utc) also.

WX:Clear sky, slight wind, sunshine, but very cool

The Hambel Belgaum Net (With Prenet session)

On 7050kHz lsb

0643ist(0113utc) onwards

VU2RZA 59 (slight weakening of signal later but on average 59)VU2YC 33 22(later signal of VU2YC not audible..no copy perhaps below noise) VU2JF very weak 22..

0653ist(0123utc) VU2JF 33 with QSB..another station heard..VMS?...callsign ..weak but later vanished....signal vanished.

No copy of VU2RTF VU3UKN etc

0654ist VU2SMN 22

0656ist VU2RZA 59 with slight QSB VU2OOO 54..55.

0659ist (0129utc) VU2KOC 22

0703ist(0133utc) VU2RZA 59 VU2PNU No copy

0705ist VU2JF 33 VU2RZA 59 VU2SMN not heard VU2DOS 33 22...heard some portion of his AR...not sure it was his normal tone..as VU2RZA pointed out roughness on its audio..etc,

0706ist VU2RZA 59 VU2PNU no copy

0708ist(0138utc) VU2RZA 59 VU2OOO not heard

A few stations heard very weak copy but could not copy their callsigns

7145kHz lsb 

0756ist(0226ist) VU2FRD 59..VU3HZT breaking 59

VU2FRD on CQ Call again on 7145kHz lsb just heard...59

0816ist onwards

VU2OWB 59 with slight QSB sometime,VU2NIL 55 to 53 signal going up & down

VU3YSU 43 33..VU3SAQ 43 to 54 with QSB

0824ist VU2OWB 59 VU3YSU 33 

0829ist VU2OWB 59 VU3SAQ 53 with QSB

0834ist now copying VU2OWB 59 VU3SAQ 58  VU2CSF 33

0836ist  VU2OWB 59 VU3SAQ 33 VU3SAQ's signal going up & down..on every AR here..but copying comfortably 

0857ist onwards for sometime

VU3ZBG heard with slight distortion in audio though signal strength was good,later audio noted with severe distortion difficult to understand, VU3SXP ,VU3JXF was there along with 9N1CA 

More reports,observations etc soon.

73

VU3WTI(Gautam Kumar Sharma)

Abhayapuri(Assam)(India)