Fall DX conditions have arrived. From the West Coast of the U.S.A. signals are coming in with great strength. You can work with one station almost every evening, you just have to listen after 6 pm on a frequency of around 18.133Mhz. At that time you will hear Allen, K6YRA in great power. I clicked on his call sign in the DX cluster and looked at his photos with a description with interest. Allen it is very well equipped, it uses a transceiver Elecraft K3 + Acom 2000. The antenna, a four-element Steppir, rotates at a height of 23 m.
After a short call, Allen gives me report 53, fixes my second call sign OM30CAQ and continues the pill-up. My son Martin, OM1MJ, sits down at the microphone and receives a report of 55. I call my daughter Andrejka, OM1ADA, and she receives a report of 57 in her quiet voice. A difference of up to 4 S, that's around 24dB, would be difficult to handle in terms of performance. Theoretically, it is based on a PA with a power of up to 25.6kW!
According to this, it seems to me that how much enormous energy is hidden in our young radio amateurs, they just need to be awakened, like the Golem.
You 73! Villa, OM3CAQ