This time I was able to set up my station, enjoy sandwich (Ham! Coleslaw! Wholemeal bread!) sitting at a park bench.
Better day today! Lots of activity, but lots of QSB. A lot of loud, clear stations running beams, 100W.
20M conditions were good, but signals fading a lot again.
Stations from Germany (DL4VER field day, 100W/beam), Azores Island (CU2CO), Romania (YO2LGE), Italy (IK0PFJ), Spain (EA7GF), Belarus (EW1MM – beautiful audio!).
Pota park-to-park!
As I was tuning around 20M band I came across DL7CD/P who was calling CQ POTA, from DE-0648.
I didn’t expect a response, but I called anyway.
To my surprise, he came back, and gave me 4/5. Even more to my surprise he included “nice signal from a QRP station” in his report. That made my day!
Originally for me he was 3/5 but later he peaked to 9/5 momentarily atls conditions improved.
During our QSO I mentioned I was in a park on London, so he asked for my POTA reference.
Unfortunately the park I was in is not in the POTA listed parks, so I couldn’t give him a reference.
Next thing on my agenda is to figure out how to get it included.
Thanks DL7CD for the contact!