7070 Report From Western Front

Date:March 17,2022

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.

Band Noise:There was heavy noise on the band from the morning,though I was copying VU2DBM comfortably on 7070kHz lsb also VU3INI with difficulty  prior to 0838ist(0308utc),from 0838ist, the noise went suddenly and after that excellent copy all around.

7070kHz lsb

Noise gone around 0838ist 

(0308utc)from 40mb.

From 0839ist onwards on 7070kHz lsb..

VU2DBM 59 with QSB sometime..VU3INI 54..VU3WTS 59...(went  on QRX )

VU2DBM VU3INI both from Guwahati,VU3WTS from Titabar

Joining 0855ist onwards VU3ZHD 54..

VU3HZD joining from Dumka ,Jharkhand

Also joined 0859ist(0329utc) ..VU3HZW 56 with QSB 

VU3HZW also from Guwahati

Also broke around 0846ist .. VU3HZT 55,from Naharlagun,Arunachal Pradesh but perhaps not copied by others.

0903ist..onwards VU3HZW..58.QSB ..VU3INI...56..with slight 

0907ist VU3ZHD 54..VU2DBM still 59 

QSO going on..

To quick review..

VU2DBM 59 VU3WTS 59 VU3INI 54 VU3ZHD 54 VU3HZW 58 56..

VU2DBM VU3INI VU3HZW on air on 7070kHz lsb @0918ist ..(0348utc)

VU2DBM was on air with his 30 year old Yaesu FT747 GX but today there was no sharp tone in his signal and with excellent audio quality and I thought he was using  his Icom IC 7300 with different settings but later he declared on air he was indeed using his FT747 GX.

Here is the audio link recorded around 0839ist :

https://app.box.com/s/bc8gz2adh9y52xc6ocaeum35hern5vrc

Another audio link recorded around 0905ist:

https://app.box.com/s/7tvlrp22yfs8osv0ytnxaujliq7gehlq

The audio recording quality may be so good due to my not so good quality recording device.

More reports,observations etc soon.

73

VU3WTI(Gautam Kumar Sharma)

Abhayapuri(Assam)(India)