Well, I’ve been doing Meteor Scatter on & off for the last 20 years and observed quite a few Perseids meteor showers. My feeling is this year was the worst shower ever! In fact the usual slow rise in meteor activity from the 8th onwards to the 12th was almost non-existent. As you can see from the log below I did just 2 QSOs on the 10th and none on the 11th … not because I was not QRV but just because of bad MS condx. đ Due to the fact I decided to take a day off from QRL on the 12th to do at least a few more QSOs hoping condx would improve. They did but still much below Perseids average …
Nevertheless I could work a few new squares (denotated with an asterisk below) but concentrated on 4 m most of the time as there was the most potential for something new, of course. đ And OM, HA, GD and ES were new countries on four. đ
I also think the maximum (if you can call it that, hi) might already have occured early morning of the 12th instead of early morning 13th as was predicted.
------------------------------------------------------------------ DATE TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR BAND MODE PRO. QRB ------------------------------------------------------------------ 01/08/15 20:22 LA9DFA JP51MU 6 m. JT6M MS 981 08/08/15 20:00 LA9AKA JP2ĂMM 6 m. JT6M MS 985 08/08/15 20:37 LA3EQ JO28XJ 6 m. JT6M MS 774 12/08/15 07:52 OZ5AGJ JO47IA * 6 m. JT6M MS 551 12/08/15 11:28 EI9E IO43XW 6 m. JT6M MS 1595 12/08/15 13:39 OHĂMZA KOĂ9CX 6 m. JT6M MS 839 14/08/15 23:41 PE1DCY JO22SI 6 m. JT6M MS 590 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 02/08/15 06:55 DK5EW JN48MB * 4 m. FSK4 MS 676 02/08/15 21:29 OH1XT KPĂ1UK * 4 m. FSK4 MS 1020 07/08/15 21:06 9A/OK1TEH/P JN82TR * 4 m. FSK4 MS 1190 07/08/15 21:44 OM5KM JN98BG * 4 m. FSK4 MS 612 08/08/15 08:15 HA1WA JN87IH * 4 m. FSK4 MS 677 08/08/15 14:46 LA9BM JP4ĂCN * 4 m. FSK4 MS 896 08/08/15 15:30 S57A JN65TW * 4 m. FSK4 MS 807 08/08/15 16:04 9A1Z JN86FJ * 4 m. FSK4 MS 772 09/08/15 05:56 EA6FB JMĂ8PW * 4 m. FSK4 MS 1865 09/08/15 21:13 EI9E IO43XW * 4 m. FSK4 MS 1595 12/08/15 08:32 OZ5AGJ JO47IA * 4 m. FSK4 MS 551 12/08/15 09:04 G4FJK IO8ĂHV 4 m. FSK4 MS 1226 12/08/15 10:52 M5MUF IO92JP 4 m. FSK4 MS 1033 12/08/15 11:19 GDĂTEP IO74SD 4 m. FSK4 MS 1230 12/08/15 14:12 GĂCHE IO9ĂPS 4 m. FSK4 MS 1054 12/08/15 18:00 GMĂUSI IO75UV * 4 m. FSK4 MS 1226 12/08/15 18:23 M1BXF JOĂ2FE 4 m. FSK4 MS 932 12/08/15 21:50 ON4KHG JO1ĂXO * 4 m. FSK4 MS 759 13/08/15 05:34 SV8/SP7VC KM29PW * 4 m. FSK4 MS 1695 13/08/15 06:15 OH6PA KPĂ2PL * 4 m. FSK4 MS 1113 13/08/15 21:15 ES3RF KO29IF * 4 m. FSK4 MS 932 13/08/15 22:20 G4WLC IO81WV 4 m. FSK4 MS 1111 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 01/08/15 19:23 LA/PA2DW JP32LV * 2 m. FSK4 MS 1159 02/08/15 20:47 SM/DG5CST JP61KV 2 m. FSK4 MS 971 04/08/15 18:04 ISĂEBO JN4ĂGR * 2 m. FSK4 MS 1449 09/08/15 16:23 EI9E IO43XW * 2 m. FSK4 MS 1595 09/08/15 17:38 R6CS KN95BW 2 m. FSK4 MS 1891 09/08/15 21:35 RW3QJA KO9ĂPH * 2 m. FSK4 MS 1746 09/08/15 22:20 SP/OK1MU KO13NX 2 m. FSK4 TR 595 10/08/15 21:47 F8GGD IN95UQ 2 m. FSK4 MS 1335 10/08/15 22:17 RA6DE KN96DQ 2 m. FSK4 MS 1857 12/08/15 07:16 GĂHIK IO84JE * 2 m. FSK4 MS 1149 12/08/15 07:26 G4NBS JOĂ2AF 2 m. FSK4 MS 958 12/08/15 09:37 LY/OK2ZAW KO23BX 2 m. FSK4 TR 660 12/08/15 12:21 UA4UK LO14MA * 2 m. FSK4 MS 1891 12/08/15 13:27 SM2A KPĂ4NP 2 m. FSK4 MS 1332 12/08/15 21:56 UR4EWZ KN87CX * 2 m. FSK4 MS 1649 12/08/15 22:05 UR8EK KN67PV 2 m. FSK4 MS 1465 12/08/15 22:16 GM8IEM IO78HF 2 m. FSK4 MS 1342 12/08/15 22:32 UT3UX KO5ĂHJ 2 m. FSK4 MS 1168 12/08/15 22:42 F/DL3ZAL IN87SL 2 m. FSK4 MS 1338 12/08/15 22:48 IK3MLF JN55WJ 2 m. FSK4 MS 882 12/08/15 22:58 RK3AF KO75WO 2 m. FSK4 MS 1422 12/08/15 23:12 RA3POV KO93CX 2 m. FSK4 MS 1579 13/08/15 05:18 RU1A KO48VR 2 m. FSK4 MS 1145 13/08/15 05:25 YT1X JN94WG 2 m. FSK4 MS 1074 13/08/15 21:03 UY1HY KO6ĂMA 2 m. FSK4 MS 1343 13/08/15 21:31 RK1AS KP4ĂUE 2 m. FSK4 MS 1220 13/08/15 22:06 UA3LID KO64CN 2 m. FSK4 MS 1186 13/08/15 22:34 R2YAA KO73DH 2 m. FSK4 MS 1331 13/08/15 23:18 RA6C KN94GT 2 m. FSK4 MS 1990 ------------------------------------------------------------------
A pity that the KO13/KO23 expedition of the Czech guys only did FSK (at least when I was there). They had really good signals (up to s5 on tropo) but refused to work me in CW so I really had to do it on FSK441 which is *not* a good mode for tropo contacts! Doing a quick CW or SSB QSO in-between does not cost more than a few seconds. Can understand they would not want to do it when in the middle of a QSO but they even did not when calling CQ … something I really do not understand having done a number of VHF expeditions myself! But maybe they had some good reasons, who knows …