Had a big opening to Japan on 6 m this morning lasting well over 4 hours, wow! Up to 25 different JA calls per RX period in FT8 but rather difficult to do any QSOs at all. Either too big pileups or too QRP over here so only a limited number of contacts. Besides the JAs there were 8 different Korean stations copyable, too. But I needed 1,5 hours to raise at least one of them for a new DXCC. That was quite frustrating as some of them were really loud, think CW with split would have worked much better and easier. But in the end I catched one so a happy camper … and a few new squares, too. 😎
Was literally running between the HF/6 m shack and the VHF shack not to miss anything on 6 and 4 m as the latter opened nicely, too. So I was happy when Uwe came along and took over the JA opening on 6 m so I could concentrate on Four. 😉 One open direction was to the east which could be expected with the great 6 m condx …
Three different OIRT stations on 70.040, 70.070 and 70.160 MHz respectively rendering the whole band unusable.
The 70.070 MHz OIRT radio station which is a frequent “visitor” is strong enough to wipe out half the band alone!
The other one was to Scotland! Think I can apply for the WAS 4 m now … not the usual Worked All States but Worked all Scotland. 😀 IO87 was a new one and the band was open almost 3 hours to Scotland but unfortunately no more active stations, what a pity.
------------------------------------------------------------------ TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE PROP. QRB ------------------------------------------------------------------ 06:50 JH7XRZ QMØ9MV -01 -04 6 m. FT8 ES 8474 07:00 JF8QNF QNØ2 -10 -18 6 m. FT8 ES 8221 07:22 JO4GGN PM75BB -09 -17 6 m. FT8 ES 8622 07:25 JH3VJV PM74LP -09 -19 6 m. FT8 ES 8701 07:36 JA1ANR PM96 -08 -17 6 m. FT8 ES 8713 07:39 JM1IGJ PM95RL -06 -16 6 m. FT8 ES 8832 07:55 JR1LZK QMØ6FI -10 -14 6 m. FT8 ES 8792 08:02 JA7WSZ QMØ7LP -05 -14 6 m. FT8 ES 8689 08:14 JH7RXU QMØ9HM -14 -13 6 m. FT8 ES 8493 08:35 DS3CHK PM36RP -09 -12 6 m. FT8 ES 8143 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 07:59 GM4VVX IO78TA +18 +13 4 m. FT8 ES 1279 08:19 GM4FVM IO85WU +00 +09 4 m. FT8 ES 1092 08:21 GM4ZMK IO75TW -05 -06 4 m. FT8 ES 1232 08:39 GM7PKT IO76JR -04 +08 4 m. FT8 ES 1295 08:44 GMØVGI IO87TH -01 +13 4 m. FT8 ES 1143 08:47 GM4OBD IO87XI 57 57 4 m. SSB ES 1125 08:57 GM8IEM IO78HF +03 +17 4 m. FT8 ES 1342 09:21 GI4OWA IO64IX -02 -15 4 m. FT8 ES 1410 09:51 GM4ZMK IO75TW 59 59 4 m. SSB ES 1232 ------------------------------------------------------------------