W8EMV - Whiskey Eight Echo Mike Victor

Ball Smacker Radio eSQL "talk" from 2025-03-21

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Ball Smacker Radio "close" eQSL from 2025-03-01 0200 UTC on 6960 AM

Received S5-S7 and enjoyable quality with some fading on the "misdr2" KiwiSDR in Northfield Township, Michigan (just north of Ann Arbor) which has a 100 foot loop antenna. My much smaller indoor loop antenna has a lot more noise on the 43 meter band and though I could see the signal on the waterfall the audio quality was not enough to enjoy. I was listening on 6960 kHz AM in the 43 meter band.

Theme tonight was "close", and the eQSL matches that referencing asteroid 2024 YR4 https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/asteroids/2024-yr4/

Ball Smacker Radio transmits from somewhere in the northeastern US. https://ballsmacker.net