The good news this morning was that when I tested my local DX cluster, it was back online following a couple weeks of downtime. Given it resides at Purdue University, the timing was right for it to have gone down while the students were on winter break and wasn’t recovered until they returned. I may never know what actually happened, I’m just glad it’s back online and serving up spots.

Ten meters has been so good lately I just know we are going to cry and moan when it goes back to being dead all the time. Until then, it’s very good. First worked this morning was Jaime, EA6NB north of Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Islands) some 4400 miles distant. Great signal and a nice QSO with a very good operator. Next up was Luca, IK3VUT just north of Venice near the Adriatic Sea. Another nice QSO with good signals all around.

There could be more (DX) later, but there’s a couple inches of snow that needs to be removed from the driveway and apparently that’s my fate today. Ciao!