KONG49 Day Six

 So, here we are again, after an eventful day!

First off: Morning photo at 05:30 local. Unless I'm totally mistaken, that is Orion's Belt  a bit to the left. Someone else might want to name the rest of the stars.  Nothing wrong with the streetlights though.

Later on: Sunny! Chilly and a bit breezy at 2-4 degrees Celsius, so I opted for a wool shirt under the jacket when I did my run earlier today. Ole and OJ hiked to the lighthouse again, and sent this QSL:

The daily (almost) lighthouse photo from OJ

Overnight conditions on the 340 beverage were ok but not outstanding. Signals faded in around Midnight UTC. Interesting peaks at 04:00 and 05:00, signal levels then slowly detoriareted. Illustrative of the dominant stations overnight is this 6-hour waterfall from 1430 kHz starting 00:30 UTC, where KAMP Aurora CO and KMES Ogden UT had very strong signals all night.

KAMP-CO and KMES-UT, still audible at 11:00 UTC

After a quick scan of the LoranD recordings, nothing more of interest was found. except maybe WHB-MO 810. From the 50 degrees beverage we noted HLAF MBC Kagneung 1287 dominating over JOHR at 10:00 UTC.

So, in the evening we had our special guest stars for dinner! Mika, Jim and Pia joined us for a King Crab dinner, starting with goose liver paté on roasted sourdough bread, with chili jam and balsamico crema. The crab was served with carbonara, and white wines kindly submitted by our guests. For dessert we had a cheese selection followed by chocolate mousse. And besides chatting about DX-ing and many other subjects, we enjoyed Grappa and Port wine. Below is a photo of the dinner party (Photo/selfie: Mika):

From left: Mika, Bjarne, OJ, Jim, Pia, Ole

We  have agreed to meet again tomorrow for a hike to the lighhouse and a brunch at the KONG HQ.