Early start this morning with the first QSO on 4 m at 7:30z into the Balkans. Beaming East 6 m provided interesting QSOs and new squares with UN7DAT/NO00 and RD6AK/KN85. I doubt that the latter is legal but as always: WFWL – work first, worry later. 😉
Two opened to Greece around 9:30z and I was very lucky to catch Erwin, DK5EW, on his DXpedition for a rare new square (unfortunately I missed him in the other ones). A bit later we had another brief opening, this time to UA6:
------------------------------------------------------------------ TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE PROP. QRB ------------------------------------------------------------------ 09:27 SV1CEV KM17UW -09 +02 2 m. FT8 ES 1846 09:29 SV9/DK5EW KM15WL -17 +02 2 m. FT8 ES 2109 09:35 SV9CJO KM25FI +05 +09 2 m. FT8 ES 2139 09:37 SV1DNU KM18VB -15 -10 2 m. FT8 ES 1835 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 11:02 UC6A KN84PV +08 +06 2 m. FT8 ES 1906 11:04 R6AS KN85TC +17 +04 2 m. FT8 ES 1913 11:07 R6BY KN84PV -04 +10 2 m. FT8 ES 1906 ------------------------------------------------------------------
Have been heard in UA3 and IT9, too! While the latter might well have been ES (the band was open to the South) I suppose the first was rather MS.
Carribean on 6 m with ZF1EJ as a new one around 13:30z, plus HI8 (FK58) added to the mix. Some more 4 m in between (EI, GM, OH) and a short 6 m opening to the U.S. around 15:30z providing EN91, FM17, FM19 squares.