Arrived early afternoon at the station today. Wanted to prepare a few things for the VHF contest this weekend and was monitoring the bands, of course. Thus no surprise I caught another short 2 m ES opening, this time to the Northeast which is very rare, ES on 144 MHz usually to the South (plus East/West) only from here. RX1AS was very weak (about a 51 report) calling on 144.300 MHz SSB but unfortunately I could not raise him with just 100 watts (knowing his ‘working conditions’ I don’t wonder why, hi). Until the amp had warmed he was down to 31/41 at best so even with high power no QSO possible, pity. This time no signals on FT8, imagine that! 😀 Seems the opening was much better further west (and with longer distances).
We also had quite an intense opening on 4 m to the Balkans again in the afternoon but just a few QSOs, there are simply not enough stations QRV. But at least LZ3AD was a new callsign in the log. 😎
------------------------------------------------------------------ TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE PROP. QRB ------------------------------------------------------------------ 11:37 RX1AS KO59XW 51 HRD 2 m. SSB ES 1315 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 12:14 YO3DAC KN34CK -14 -16 4 m. FT8 ES 1307 12:27 YO9IE KN34AW +14 -04 4 m. FT8 ES 1255 13:15 YO7LGI KN14XO -12 +04 4 m. FT8 ES 1189 13:28 YO9HP KN35BA +07 -05 4 m. FT8 ES 1252 13:30 LZ2WO KN23AL -03 -02 4 m. FT8 ES 1298 13:49 LZ3AD KN32EQ -09 -06 4 m. FT8 ES 1473 ------------------------------------------------------------------