High MUF across Western Europe and several ES openings on 144 MHz … all at least 400 km west or 300 km south of me, so no joy. Even difficult to catch something on 4 m but finally had a great opening to EA6. Sorrily all EA6’s on FT8 only with s9++ signals, only EA6SA being an exception, tnx CW contact, Josep! Would not have expected to work him 1,5 hours later again on 2 m. 😎
Quite a late opening on 144 MHz mainly between the U.K. and Italy and me being too close to these new ES clouds. So MUF had to climb much higher to allow QSOs on shorter path’, i.e. 1.200 km in my case to Southern France. F6EGD was not complete, weak signal and only for 2 or 3 periods. Likewise with F1JG, heard (seen) for two periods and gone. He was in again half an hour later and just long enough to complete the QSO then. Guess I worked almost all active EA6 VHFers. 😉
------------------------------------------------------------------ TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE PROP. QRB ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:28 EA6VQ JM19MP +11 +05 4 m. FT8 ES 1727 16:29 EA6SX JM19IK +09 +10 4 m. FT8 ES 1760 16:38 EA6FB JMØ8PW +12 +12 4 m. FT8 ES 1865 16:41 EA5TT IM99SL +07 -08 4 m. FT8 ES 1887 16:44 EB5GC IM97JX -12 -18 4 m. FT8 ES 2063 17:14 EA6SA JM19LO 599 599 4 m. CW ES 1734 17:55 EA3BMU JNØ1OC -03 -18 4 m. FT8 ES 1659 18:13 EA3EW JNØ1OG +08 +02 4 m. FT8 ES 1643 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 18:35 F6EGD JN24MA -07 NC 2 m. FT8 ES 1219 18:40 EA6VQ JM19HN +18 +06 2 m. FT8 ES 1751 18:47 EA3BTZ JN11BI 59 59 2 m. SSB ES 1596 18:49 EA6SA JM19LO 59 59 2 m. SSB ES 1734 18:54 EA6XQ JM19LH +01 -07 2 m. FT8 ES 1763 19:09 F1JG JN23HQ +13 -06 2 m. FT8 ES 1268 19:11 EA3SI JN11DN -04 -16 2 m. FT8 ES 1569 ------------------------------------------------------------------
DK1FG & DL1NEO reported receiving (seeing) D41CV from Cap Verde on 2 m – that’s a 4.870 km path! I saw DK1FG calling him but no QSO was made. PE1CCM reported a QSO with 5T5PA on 144.174 FT8 (although I haven’t seen any confirmation of it yet). That’s a 4.000 km path, too. Probably a combination of ES + TR as there was strong tropo ducting along the West African coast line during the last days with regular QSOs between CT/EA and EA8/D4 so 5T5 would perfectly fit in. So much to still explore … 😎