Thanks for hanging in there, Phil, to complete our exchange at 0220. I was literally Tony's first contact for the hunt, and your last contact. It doesn't always happen that way, and did mean I was calling you for the entire hunt and always seemingly being beaten out by apparently louder stations to you. You are admittedly out near the extreme of what my undersized antenna for 80 meters can do, which was further hampered by your high-noise problem.

I have dealt with high noise levels before from power lines and such, and know how "not fun" that is with high noise floors. For me, at least twice it was faulty connections on nearby city street lights in the neighborhood. But the worst time ended up being in the house itself, when the power adapter for my cable modem went haywire, creating horrible wide-band noise that my antenna was picking up from 25 feet away and swamping everything. I had to find that one on an evening when no one else was home where I could put my radio on battery and turn off all the circuit breakers in the house, bringing them back on one at a time to narrow down the noise source. Fortunately, once identified, I had an identical power adapter from the same brand of equipment that I could substitute to fix the problem.

73,
Kevin Anderson, K9IUA
Dubuque, Iowa

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If I recall correctly, Fritz will not display a dot for a submitted QSO if at least the operator's name does not match what he has in his database, as well as possibly the state. And of course not if the call sign itself is a bust.

Kevin Anderson, K9IUA