Visit to Azuay radio club

For business I was in Cuenca, Ecuador or HC5-area. Before I came here I had contacts on 10M SSB with Fausto HC5VF and Pablo HC5AI. Fausto invited me to his home,  where we sat in his shack with a lot of qsl-cards but also other collected items like footballclub-shirts. He invited me to the Azuay [...]

great tropo on 2 Meter

Every year around this time there is a huge high pressure area developing. No wind, fog (convection-type) and inversions. Working as pipes: either you are in the pipe or not. Yesterday 10-11 we had such an event. Heard G4SWX working into OH, UA1 and ES early in the evening. Up to 2000 km! And here…nil. [...]