Today was not spectacular.
I heard JA7OEM while still in broad daylight and worked him on the first call.
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Later I spent a long time listening for FK8CP who was barely readable today and then I called CQ for a while.
The band was quite noisy and some Russian contest caused a bit of QRM across the band…
I have observed that a lot of the weekend warriors have limited receive capability.
They come on a busy frequency and immediately start calling CQ and it is quite obvious that they are most likely using their transmit antenna to receive with…it´s quite sad really.
This is the main reason that I would really like to see 160 meters free of contesting – except for the Stew Perry, of course…. and free of SSB too, while I´m at it.
Nevertheless, a few JA stations were added to the log, some incredibly weak signals which were quite difficult to copy, I have a feeling that my receive antenna system is being tested with QRP signals from Japan… 
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