Thursday, July 20, 2006

End of season ? ES

Just when I was thinking the ES season is starting to wane, 6 opened up last night to the west again with some fine qso's to VE/W/V44/YV/HI etc
Recent qso's over 6500 km include
19/07 20:47 YV4DDK FK6ØAD 55 57 7045
19/07/ 17:55 W5OZI EMØØCL 539 559 7473
15/07/ 12:58 W4IR EL97HG 539 529 6504
14/07/ 14:15 N4IS EL96UB 559 569 6527
11/07/ 21:52 W4SO EL96VA 559 579 6525
11/07/ 20:44 P43JB FK42XM 579 559 6972
No 2m ES since 17th July

Friday, July 14, 2006

2m Tropo

Nice to get some tropo on 144mhz tonight, DL/PA/ON/OK, very happy with that, later checked and did not hear the CU beacon, while bringing beam back to east noted a qso on 300 and worked EA8BEX IL27, EA8AVI IL28 and EA8BTV IL18 between 22:07 and 22:13

Map below shows conditions to EA8 tonight

http://meteo.physic.ut.ee/ilmatark/

Saturday, July 08, 2006

50mhz to the west

Been an amazing last few weeks on 6m, so much so God know its been difficult to keep an eye on 144mhz for sporadic E
Sample of what ive worked on 6m from June over 6000 km includes a host of US stations from EM/EL/DN squares best being KØGU DN7ØMQ 6960 km
From June 16th VY4DYJ, PJ2BVU, FM5JE, HI3TEJ, WP4JKK. KP4SQ, WP4EJH, FM5WD, FM5JC, FG5FR, FM5AA, KP4EIT, WP4LUU, WP4U, WP4NIX
From June 20th PV8DX, V47KV, VP2V/W7XU, V44KAI, VP2MDD, V25D, VP5/W5SJ
Best dx so far was 20/06/2006 18:39 PV8DX FJ92PT 539/539 7263km "CW of course" 7263km
18 qsos over 7000km on ssb and 26 on cw