01/27/2003 | K2DRH EN41 Saturday was really terrible here, conditions were dismal and QSOs were at least 100 fewer than last year. Sunday morning the bands seemed to pick up quite a bit and the high bands started working a lot better. Had a nice visit by Tim K0PG/R and Pat K9ILT/R for coffee on Sunday morning. After a number of local stations convinced me I was definitely a lot weaker than usual, I discovered that I had only been putting out about 20W on 2M! I found a bad coax jumper and fixed the problem, gaining back almost 10 db to my normal 170W output! Conditions had definitely picked up too so I went at it hard to make up for lost time. The 6M Es opening Sunday afternoon was just what the doctor ordered to kick it up a notch with a good run that put over 100 Qs in the log in an hour. -- K2DRH