Well it’s been a long summer already.  This spring, a strong windstorm came through and knocked down my OCF Windom dipole antenna, an antenna that I had been having marginal success operating worldwide with.  I’d made several DX contacts, but the issue was the placement of the antenna, it went directly over the house and picked up about a solid S6-S7 of RFI simply by being that close to all the electronics in a home.  Suffice it to say I got lots of good signal reports of S9 but routinely would need to have a station repeat their call several times during contests. Continue reading →