A little weak DX from ZL2XC, VK3ATO, and JQ2SIX this morning. W9UCW was in a vortex with VK / ZL coming from the southeast (longpath). He did copy JA well.
W6UC came on with his rebuilt Heil microphone sounding good. W9MK was also present. (K7FX was lurking, but not heard from.)
Better conditions are "just around the corner", or so I'm told.
73, Jay, HP3AK
MUF - Sunlight
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Saturday, March 28, 2020
75m SSB & 160m FT8 Openings ... some
Well, first I am still alive and well at 79 years plus a couple of months. Being alive seems to be the prime requirement to participate in "amateur" radio.
On March 22 at 1139Z I got a nice surprise when H44MS, Bernhard, gave me a call on 3.796. He worked a few others after that. I had worked him several times over the years, but the last previous contact was 4/23/2017.
I have been awake during the late evening hours the past couple of nights and have made some decent contacts. On March 27, from 0530Z until 0552Z, I worked 10 European stations on 3.799. Several were well over S9, with the strongest at 15 / 9. Of course there were the usual 2 or 3 that were too weak to copy.
On March 28, from 0433Z until 0522Z, I worked 27 European stations on 160m FT8. Many of them were new countries on 160m.
75m morning DX has been poor to weak to not-even-there for the past season. A few decent openings to JA and a few more to ZL / VK, but mostly very weak signals.
The old regular group has become the "irregulars", with W6UC, W9MK, and W9UCW showing up at times. K7FX is usually lurking, but playing with his new computer. JQ2SIX is still on 3.796 in the mornings and gives us a beacon from JA.
73 & be safe and well. Jay, HP3AK
On March 22 at 1139Z I got a nice surprise when H44MS, Bernhard, gave me a call on 3.796. He worked a few others after that. I had worked him several times over the years, but the last previous contact was 4/23/2017.
I have been awake during the late evening hours the past couple of nights and have made some decent contacts. On March 27, from 0530Z until 0552Z, I worked 10 European stations on 3.799. Several were well over S9, with the strongest at 15 / 9. Of course there were the usual 2 or 3 that were too weak to copy.
On March 28, from 0433Z until 0522Z, I worked 27 European stations on 160m FT8. Many of them were new countries on 160m.
75m morning DX has been poor to weak to not-even-there for the past season. A few decent openings to JA and a few more to ZL / VK, but mostly very weak signals.
The old regular group has become the "irregulars", with W6UC, W9MK, and W9UCW showing up at times. K7FX is usually lurking, but playing with his new computer. JQ2SIX is still on 3.796 in the mornings and gives us a beacon from JA.
73 & be safe and well. Jay, HP3AK
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