Arrived at the station early afternoon today. Unpacked the IC-7300 to set up with the transverter for the 2 m contest this weekend when seeing 70 MHz was open! Had a great time working the band. Especially enjoy the openings into the U.K. as activity is quite high over there … 4 m has been a regular band in the U.K. for decades already! Lucky to get a call from IO93 providing square #171. 😎
Also switched “down” to 50 MHz a few times as I saw on the DX cluster there was some triple and quadruple hops Sporadic-E across the pond, too. Being QRP on 6 m I could only raise two souls but K7BV in North Carolina/FM04 provided a new one on 6 m, too, now #661. 😎
------------------------------------------------------------------ TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE PROP. QRB ------------------------------------------------------------------ 14:01 GØBLB IO81RI +06 +14 4 m. FT8 ES 1155 14:06 EA1YV IN52OC -15 -05 4 m. FT8 ES 2102 14:08 GU8FBO IN89QK +17 +09 4 m. FT8 ES 1238 14:14 G4BRK IO91HP -06 -15 4 m. FT8 ES 1068 14:17 G8TTI IO81WM +07 -02 4 m. FT8 ES 1122 14:19 G4SJH IO91PI 55 57 4 m. SSB ES 1033 14:25 G3VXM IO9ØLT 59 59 4 m. SSB ES 1074 14:26 GØCHE IO9ØPS 59 59 4 m. SSB ES 1054 14:26 GØBLB IO81RI 55 59 4 m. SSB ES 1155 14:31 G8WZT IO82RQ 59 59 4 m. SSB ES 1121 14:32 G8HGN JOØ1FO 55 53 4 m. SSB ES 948 14:42 G4BRK IO91HP 59 59 4 m. SSB ES 1068 14:44 G3TMG IO9ØLU 59 59 4 m. SSB ES 1073 14:46 G3NPI IO92MA 59 59 4 m. SSB ES 1030 14:52 EI4GNB IO63WE 59 59 4 m. SSB ES 1350 14:53 EI7HBB IO53SQ 52 53 4 m. SSB ES 1496 14:54 G4BWP JOØ2FH 59 59 4 m. SSB ES 929 14:55 G1EZF IO93FT 59 59 4 m. SSB ES 1042 14:58 GD3YEO IO74RD 59 59 4 m. SSB ES 1236 15:00 GW4ZHI IO82AH 59 58 4 m. SSB ES 1223 15:02 G4AJC IO91VJ 56 56 4 m. SSB ES 998 15:10 MØLHS IO81RL -14 -18 4 m. FT8 ES 1151 15:14 G4FVP IO94FM -05 +02 4 m. FT8 ES 1041 15:17 GW3TKH IO81JN -18 -17 4 m. FT8 ES 1193 15:22 G8EEM IO93MX +03 +14 4 m. FT8 ES 1003 15:25 G4IJM IO94IM -02 -18 4 m. FT8 ES 1025 15:27 YO8RAW KN36UF +09 +08 4 m. FT8 ES 1238 15:29 G4VCJ IO94JQ -06 -07 4 m. FT8 ES 1020 15:47 GM4VVX IO78TA +03 +01 4 m. FT8 ES 1279 18:50 GU6EFB IN89RK +14 +18 4 m. FT8 ES 1233 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 15:34 K7BV FMØ4XV -11 -18 6 m. FT8 4xES 7112 15:37 K1MS FN42FM +07 -12 6 m. FT8 4xES 6112 ------------------------------------------------------------------
Also set up the transverter afterwards and made a few test QSOs on 2 m, too. The combination works excellent so eager to start the contest tomorrow! 😉