Not much time this year for the Perseids Meteor Shower. At least managed to be QRV for a few hours during the weekend … Not many expeditions QRV this year and overall activity not as high as I was used to, but also less reflections from the shower than usual. Sunday afternoon really showed a low meteor count so I was already of the opinion the shower maximum was early Sunday morning but meteor rate as well as duration (see screenshot of a typical long Perseids burst I generated at RZ3RZ over 1.800 km with 500 W & 9 ele G0KSC LFA) suddenly picked up late evening so the maximum was probably during the night to Monday as predicted …
Good to work 2 new squares on 2 m, didn’t expect that with no big expeditions on. 🙂 But nothing interesting on 6 m at all so concentrated on 4 & 2 m again. EI9E was quite busy on all 3 bands, i.e. 6/4/2 m but they’ve been to IO61 last year already. They took it leisurely this time and made some EME experiments on 23 cm as they said …
Sweden (or at least a few guys there) have a temporary 4 m permit until 31.12.2018! Two stations are currently QRV, namely SM7CAD/JO77 and SM4KYN/JO69. I was glad to work at least the latter one for a new country (and square, of course) after many attempts. The distance is almost too close to work MS especially with QRP both sides but it finally worked – thanks Anders!
E76C was QRV, too, Bosnia & Herzegovina are allowed to use 70 MHz since 26.07.2018 as well. Unfortunately we didn’t manage to QSO although we tried several times, too.
Concerning digital Meteor Scatter modes 50 & 70 MHz are now completely dominated by MSK144, JT6M has vanished completely. On 2 m it seems that a lot of Russian guys prefer MSK144 over FSK441 although the latter has some gain advantages over the first. My gut feeling is it’s currently about 30% MSK144 and 70% FSK441. You won’t see that reflected in my log below but this is rather due to myself concentrating on QSOs dir East and also some lazyness, i.e. keeping the transceiver listening on the (in-) official MSK144 “meeting” frequency of 144.360 MHz and then just jumping in when something interesting popped up …
------------------------------------------------------------------ DATE TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR BAND MODE PRO. QRB ------------------------------------------------------------------ 11/08/2018 08:17 E77ØD JN93JM 2 m. FSK441 MS 1126 11/08/2018 08:38 LZ1JH KN12PQ 2 m. FSK441 MS 1347 11/08/2018 08:49 R1AY KP5ØBS 2 m. MSK144 MS 1275 11/08/2018 09:03 G8JLY IO82WG 2 m. FSK441 MS 1102 11/08/2018 10:07 9A/S54O JN74EN 2 m. FSK441 MS 959 11/08/2018 15:00 EI9E IO61AX 4 m. MSK144 MS 1497 11/08/2018 17:37 SV8PEX JM99VR # 2 m. FSK441 MS 1555 11/08/2018 18:57 SM4KYN JO69XH # 4 m. MSK144 MS 681 11/08/2018 19:24 LA1BFA JP43GK # 2 m. FSK441 MS 1185 11/08/2018 19:53 IV3KKW JN66IE 6 m. MSK144 MS 786 11/08/2018 20:02 IK1FJI JN44LL 6 m. MSK144 MS 1041 11/08/2018 22:09 R3PA KO93JV 2 m. MSK144 MS 1618 11/08/2018 22:21 UA3AVY KO95BI 2 m. MSK144 MS 1563 11/08/2018 22:28 UR3ABM KO7ØJU 2 m. MSK144 MS 1426 11/08/2018 23:02 R3LW KO54MQ 2 m. MSK144 MS 1111 12/08/2018 05:19 SQ5JUP KOØ2KF 2 m. MSK144 TR 461 12/08/2018 05:41 ON5CD JO2ØGX 4 m. MSK144 MS 704 12/08/2018 05:55 MJ/SP7VC IN89XF 4 m. MSK144 MS 1211 12/08/2018 07:01 OH7RJ KP33QK # 4 m. MSK144 MS 1369 12/08/2018 07:19 EI4DQ IO51WU 4 m. MSK144 MS 1512 12/08/2018 07:55 EW3AA KO12TC 2 m. MSK144 TR 646 12/08/2018 09:20 RA3EL KO82AX 2 m. MSK144 MS 1452 12/08/2018 09:32 UA3QHF KO91PQ 2 m. MSK144 MS 1699 12/08/2018 10:18 SQ3DHO JO82II # 4 m. FT8 TR 192 12/08/2018 10:45 G8ECI JOØ3AI # 4 m. MSK144 MS 940 12/08/2018 11:10 S57TW JN75EX 4 m. MSK144 MS 801 12/08/2018 11:38 G4IJE JOØ1HP 4 m. MSK144 MS 935 12/08/2018 12:25 UA3WM KO72QI 2 m. MSK144 MS 1421 12/08/2018 12:37 UT2EM KN67QV 2 m. MSK144 MS 1470 12/08/2018 13:04 DL2GPK JN47MX # 4 m. MSK144 MS 684 12/08/2018 13:54 R3KBF KO91PO 2 m. MSK144 MS 1702 12/08/2018 14:27 OZ1DLD JO45RL 4 m. FT8 TR 399 12/08/2018 15:12 HB9SHD JN37VJ 6 m. MSK144 MS 788 12/08/2018 15:22 EI9E IO61AX 6 m. MSK144 MS 1497 12/08/2018 15:57 OY9JD IP62OA 2 m. MSK144 MS 1578 12/08/2018 19:10 SM7MMQ JO65MO 2 m. MSK144 TR 279 12/08/2018 20:36 YL3AJT KO36QM 2 m. MSK144 MS 919 12/08/2018 21:45 RV3IG LO17FJ 2 m. MSK144 MS 1834 12/08/2018 22:10 UT9IR KN87WX 2 m. MSK144 MS 1758 12/08/2018 22:19 UT8LE KN79WW 2 m. MSK144 MS 1534 12/08/2018 22:23 UT4LA KN89CW 2 m. MSK144 MS 1556 12/08/2018 22:44 RZ3RZ LOØ2RR 2 m. FSK441 MS 1814 12/08/2018 22:55 UA3XAC KO85HC 2 m. FSK441 MS 1468 12/08/2018 23:02 IK1FJI JN44LL 2 m. FSK441 MS 1041 12/08/2018 23:31 MI6XZZ IO74CU 2 m. MSK144 MS 1315 12/08/2018 23:50 R6CS KN95BW 2 m. FSK441 MS 1891 12/08/2018 23:58 UA3LID KO64CN 2 m. FSK441 MS 1186 ------------------------------------------------------------------