Time to dedust the station. 😉 Didn’t do much (not to say nothing) during the last few weeks. But being a VHF addict as you know it’s time to pay more attention to the radio from mid-May for possible Sporadic-E openings. Made the first QSOs on 4 m this year today:
------------------------------------------------------------------ TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE PROP. QRB ------------------------------------------------------------------ 12:41 PA4VHF JO32JE -03 -07 4 m. FT8 TR 512 15:52 SV8CS KMØ7JS +13 +08 4 m. FT8 ES 1787 15:56 9H1PI JM75FW +05 -11 4 m. FT8 ES 1918 16:02 DL7UAW JO62OM -09 -07 4 m. FT8 TR 100 16:10 9H1PI JM75FW 579 559 4 m. CW ES 1918 16:19 DL5WG JO52XJ -08 -17 4 m. FT8 TR 175 16:21 DK2PH JO41GV -01 -08 4 m. FT8 TR 409 17:21 EA1AF IN71SW -04 -06 4 m. FT8 ES 1867 17:30 SP2CHY JO94GO -12 -16 4 m. FT8 TR 325 17:42 EA1Q IN71PP -07 -18 4 m. FT8 ES 1905 ------------------------------------------------------------------
Also made a few ones on 6 and 10 m. The latter was open nicely to JA but only on FT8, signals too weak for CW or SSB. That’s when FT8 makes sense! TA1D/4 in KM56 delivered a new square on 6 m …