Welcoming Our New Year With Shin, JA1NUT

I'm honored to share my first 2009 Q with Shin, JA1NUT who lives in Japan. He called CQ on 40m this morning and his signal is consistently strong as well. He's operating 500watts into a 3-element yagi and I received [Readability 5] [Strength 6] [Tone 9]. Shin's signal report, on the other hand, into a wire antenna system (ie. doublet) was [Readability 5] [Strength 7] [Tone 9]. Conditions were stable with Shin reporting minor fading effects (QSB) at his location.

We mentioned, in the content of our QSO, our mutual reading interest in Leo's JJ8KGZ's a brasspounder's cafe (link) as well.

Defending our spectrum just operate.