Just returned from the HAMRADIO fair in Friedrichshafen. Good show and great to meet some old friends again like Enrico, I5WBE. Have worked him several times on 2 m Meteor Scatter some 20 years ago in HSCW (high speed CW, i.e. 1.000 lpm). Always nice to remember “the good old times” together although I like today’s world, too. 😉
After returning home this afternoon I was very astonished to see Aurora QSOs reported on the DX cluster! Switched on the radio and immediately worked GM4ZUK/P for my first ever Aurora QSO on 4 m! 😎 Concentrated on 4 & 6 m this time as Heiko, DG1BHA, was at the station, too, trying his luck on 2 m. So only two contacts on 144 MHz this time but with R3CT some really good DX included!
6 m opened very selectively via Sporadic-E afterwards, too, even on double hop to EA8! Good to hear some signals again, July has been rather disappointing sofar after the great ES openings in June …
------------------------------------------------------------------ TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE PROP. QRB ------------------------------------------------------------------ 15:28 GM4ZUK/P IO86RW 55A 55A 4 m. CW AUR 1141 15:43 LA2QM JO59HN 55A 59A 6 m. CW AUR 742 15:46 YL2JZ KO26AW 59A 57A 6 m. CW AUR 751 15:50 SA5K JO78LH 59A 59A 6 m. CW AUR 572 15:52 SM7FJE JO65ML 59A 55A 6 m. CW AUR 266 16:06 R3CT KO86QF 53A 57A 2 m. CW AUR 1518 16:22 SMØLPO JO89TE 55A 55A 6 m. CW AUR 699 16:25 SM5EPO JP8ØMC 59A 56A 6 m. CW AUR 788 16:32 SM6CVX JO78FM 59A 55A 6 m. SSB AUR 593 16:38 YL2FZ KO37QI 53A 59A 2 m. CW AUR 952 16:46 SM6CMU JO57XK 55A 55A 6 m. CW AUR 493 16:49 SM6OEF JO68KI 52A 55A 6 m. CW AUR 580 17:01 AM625VQ JM19HN 599 599 6 m. CW ES 1751 17:03 EA4AA IN8ØBK 59 59 6 m. SSB ES 1964 17:04 EA8DBM IL18OH 59 59 6 m. SSB ES 3747 17:07 EA4DE IN8ØLL 59 59 6 m. SSB ES 1918 17:09 EA8AQV IL28ED 59 59 6 m. SSB ES 3700 17:11 EA1ASC IN7ØDX 59 59 6 m. SSB ES 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------