PA0O ham radio

Testing the East Beverage last night on 160m USB dial 1.908 MHz the JA HL digi allocation FT8 Using Flex1500 P-SDR .133  active bandfilter Many JA decoded the Beverage produced similar signals against the inverted-L Possible its direction should be more north-east now it is west / east in line with the ditches or some damage done to cable have to investigate I found the cable protection sleeve compleet filled with clay mud although the sleeve is closed but there are some cracks There was no corrosion on metal parts even the little PCB where the 1:9 transformer was soldered on was still copper colored! This clay builds a conserving layer against direct water intrusion and corrosion  It is a  pity that the nice PSK-reporter map shows only a fraction of what is received.  and does not report WSPR  although it says report all WSPRNET.ORG  is also missing spots, the server is slow and partly off line ALL.TXT   JA calls  1.908MHz . ...