Another great ES day on the VHF bands!

What a great DX day today! Made 70 QSOs across Four & Two. Both bands started to open simultanously overhere at 8 UTC. While it started to the west with G/GW for the first 20 minutes it soon shifted to EA/F and stayed open for 2 hours with some short breaks every now and then. Nice to see some SSB activity, too. 😎

Propoagation shifted to the south in the afternoon but only provided one 2 m QSO while 4 m was open on the shorter distances to 9A and S5 enabling QSOs with the usual suspects. In the evening the cloud cluster to Spain became active again enabling 2 m contacts once again and some more on 4 m, too. Here are the catches on 2m:

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TIME   CALLSIGN      LOCATOR   TX    RX    BAND  MODE   PROP.  QRB
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07:59  G4DCV         IO91OF   -12   -13    2 m.  FT8     ES   1043
08:01  G4RRA         IO8ØBS   -10   -06    2 m.  FT8     ES   1263
08:05  G8JLY         IO82WG   -15   -12    2 m.  FT8     ES   1102
08:05  G4TRA         IO81WN   -15   -14    2 m.  FT8     ES   1120
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08:20  EB1FNS        IN73DM   +02   +13    2 m.  FT8     ES   1812
08:23  EA1YV         IN52OC   -09   -07    2 m.  FT8     ES   2102
08:28  EA5GJ         IM97JW   +13   -16    2 m.  FT8     ES   2067
08:30  EB3JT         JNØ1UI   -02   -02    2 m.  FT8     ES   1613
08:32  EA5U          IM98SR   +17   +20    2 m.  FT8     ES   1958
08:36  EA5ZJ         IM98TV    59    59    2 m.  SSB     ES   1939
08:40  EA4K          IN8ØDE   -13   +12    2 m.  FT8     ES   1978
09:03  EA1SI         IN73dm   +17   -06    2 m.  FT8     ES   1812
09:06  F4HAB         JNØ3RO   -09   -02    2 m.  FT8     ES   1417
09:13  F6DRO         JNØ3TJ   +00   -21    2 m.  FT8     ES   1428
09:18  EA1M          IN53TI   +07   +20    2 m.  FT8     ES   1983
09:30  EA1IZT        IN83BK   +10   -04    2 m.  FT8     ES   1713
09:41  EA4HJL        IN8ØDK   +08   +16    2 m.  FT8     ES   1956
09:49  EA6SX         JM19IK   +02   -08    2 m.  FT8     ES   1760
10:10  EA6AAU        JM19JK    59    59    2 m.  SSB     ES   1757
10:12  EA6ACW        JM19HO    59    59    2 m.  SSB     ES   1747
10:13  EA6SA         JM19LO    59    59    2 m.  SSB     ES   1734
10:15  EA4CZV        IN8ØDM    59    59    2 m.  SSB     ES   1948
10:16  EA4T          IN7ØXK   +17   +12    2 m.  FT8     ES   1973
10:33  EA4K          IN8ØDE   -01   -16    2 m.  FT8     ES   1978
11:02  EA2FBG        IN93CI   -03   +02    4 m.  FT8     ES   1605
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15:21  IZ7QVD        JN81FC   -12   -01    2 m.  FT8     ES   1354
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17:16  EB1B          IN73DM   -13   -05    2 m.  FT8     ES   1812
17:22  EA1NL         IN52PJ   +13   +09    2 m.  FT8     ES   2075
17:51  EA7GPW        IM77CO   -11   -16    2 m.  FT8     ES   2316
17:57  EA1CH         IN62FJ   +15   -05    2 m.  FT8     ES   2006
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