AIH91 report Day 6 – Thusday 13.12.2018
It is always difficult to follow the propagation when pedition goes on as we are usually working with the earlier days files. Plus we have other activities. On Thursday we went to our annual trip to Kirkenes, Norway at 9am and returned around 3pm. As beer connoisseurs we make pre-order to Norwegian alcohol monopoly Vinmonopolet and pick up 100+ different Norwegian beers. The manager of the shop greets us like the old friends. Why not, we have been there last five years – once a year and we are the only ones who import beer from Norway to Finland… We also went to two local grocery shops Rema1000 and Kiwi and found some new lighter Norwegian beers. And as usual at the border in Näätämö we did some food shopping at NordMarket and K-Market for the remaining days. Patrik also bought some reindeer meet for home.
So what about the propagation? K-index (Tromso) was almost all day zero. On radio it means that now West Coast propagation was over … now band is
open all over and the dominants are back. I noticed that at 09z East Coast was loud and I found from the files few very interesting catches: 760 WLCC Brandon FL (1st time in Finland) and 1190 WIXE Monroe NC (2nd time in Finland). Probably in NC stations were running daytime power because of heavy weather conditions. We need to check more files at home.
We also have a friend here who we have not seen. From the tracks we would say it is a fox. He/she has also shitted two days in a row just next to our front door. Usual suspects are the birds who seem to like peanuts. As well as squirrel…
For dinner we had beef stew in a beer sauce and rice. It was very good as we cooked meat for over an hour. The best beer was Jämmerdalen Astronauts. Jämmerdalen is quite new and very small brewery in the Northern Sweden. The beer world has not heard of them but they should as Jämmerdalen brews world class sour/wild beers.
I am writing this on Friday and we are leaving on Saturday. Probably the last parts of DX-pedition blog will be published next week. K-index is still zero …
