Lucky me! Mother nature was calling early this morning and before going back to bed I just checked the MUF on DXMAPS on the smartphone. Glad I did! There was already some ES going on 2 m. Quickly switched on the remote station but it took another 15 minutes until the band opened in JO73. Unfortunately I had high SWR on the remote antenna. 🙁 So could only run 10 watts first and later about 100 watts when things warmed up. Seems a bigger problem in the connection between the 7/8″ coax going up the mast and the last few meters of Aircom+ cable. Heiko, DG1BHA, already tried fixing it twice during the last few weeks but the error always returns sooner or later. Time to fix it permanently! So hope to be able to squeeze in some time during the next visit in about 2 weeks when driving the 700 km home again … Nevertheless managed some nice QSOs and even worked two new squares … it’s been a while since doing so via Sporadic-E. 😎
Played around a bit with DL4MFM’s Log Analyzer, see screenshot. The following great QSOs were made in two sequential openings, the first one lasting about half an hour to LZ and the second one for another 45 minutes to SV about an hour later:
------------------------------------------------------------------ TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE PROP. QRB ------------------------------------------------------------------ 06:43 LZ1ZX KN32IO 59 59 2 m. SSB ES 1496 06:50 LZ1KG KN31CS 59 59 2 m. SSB ES 1552 06:51 LZ1VPV KN22UL 59 59 2 m. SSB ES 1464 06:53 LZ1YG KN22QO 599 599 2 m. CW ES 1437 07:00 LZ5SZ KN32RL 55 59 2 m. SSB ES 1542 07:18 LZ2QA KN43EK 55 59 2 m. SSB ES 1502 08:05 SV7GBR KN2ØIX 55 55 2 m. SSB ES 1569 08:07 SV9CVY KM25KA 59 59 2 m. SSB ES 2186 08:17 SV2JL KN1ØLO 59 59 2 m. SSB ES 1546 08:20 SV1ELI KM17XX 55 59 2 m. SSB ES 1849 08:21 SV1ONV KM27AX 55 59 2 m. SSB ES 1852 08:25 SV9IOQ KM25AL 59 59 2 m. SSB ES 2113 08:33 SV2OXS KN1ØFF 59 57 2 m. SSB ES 1569 08:35 Z32KF KNØ1SI 59 59 2 m. SSB ES 1425 08:39 SV9KNK KM25FI 59 59 2 m. SSB ES 2139 08:44 SV2DCD KNØØPL 59 59 2 m. SSB ES 1510 ------------------------------------------------------------------
Also made a few audio recordings again. Hope you enjoy listening to them! 🙂
LZ1ZX (KN32IO) 1.496 km via ES on 144 MHz:
LZ1KG (KN31CS) 1.552 km via ES on 144 MHz:
SV7GBR (KN20IX) 1.569 km via ES on 144 MHz:
SV9CVY (KM25KA) 2.186 km via ES on 144 MHz:
SV1ONV (KM27AX) 1.852 km via ES on 144 MHz:
Z32KF (KN01SI) 1.425 km via ES on 144 MHz:
SV9KNK (KM25FI) 2.139 km via ES on 144 MHz: