At around the time Jim, K7NCG was responding to Al, KB7TBC on the NWTM CW Net, the CME shutdown the band -- sorta. It washed Jim's normal S9+ signal down to S1. It also had the effect of washing out his modulation. What was a laser focused zero beatable signal became a mush. I know Jim's rig is capable of amazing things, and delivering mush is not one of them. Hi-hi.
That sort of explains the modulation of Jim's signal on my horizontally polarized antenna. Now it has me wondering if I heard the extreme effect due to my long wire and the rest of your experience was limited because you had vertical polarization antennas.
Anyway, something to puzzle over. I really wish I had my audio recorder setup to capture it. It was a perfect wash out of the band.
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