Massive JA opening on 6 m & WAS on 4 m ;-)

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.

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TIME   CALLSIGN      LOCATOR   TX    RX    BAND   MODE  PROP.  QRB
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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
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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
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