Following yesterday’s openings 2 m was hot again all day long. At times we had two or three different path’ open (Greece, Italy, Spain) in parallel. And there was some good SSB activity, too! Not to miss anything I went SO2R (Single Operator, 2 Radios): while I used my usual remote setup with the Flex plus transverter and SSPA into the 9 ele LFA for digital I also had our IC-9700 with the tube amp into the 10 ele DK7ZB connected for SSB. It certainly paid off! 😎 Not sure about G4LOH. There was some ES around at that time but it might as well have been Ionoscatter.
------------------------------------------------------------------ TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE PROP. QRB ------------------------------------------------------------------ 10:28 G4LOH IO7ØJC -14 -05 2 m. FT8 ES 1378 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 15:46 SV1ELI KM17XX +08 +15 2 m. FT8 ES 1849 15:48 IZ7UMS JN81GD +27 +03 2 m. FT8 ES 1350 15:53 EA3BS JNØ1XK -01 +01 2 m. FT8 ES 1595 16:05 IK7LMX JN8ØXP 59 59 2 m. SSB ES 1422 16:08 ZA/IW2JOP KMØ9AU -01 +02 2 m. FT8 ES 1547 16:10 SV8PEX JM99WO +21 +07 2 m. FT8 ES 1570 16:16 SV8PEX JM99WO 59 59 2 m. SSB ES 1570 16:28 SV8CS KMØ7JS -02 -12 2 m. FT8 ES 1787 17:32 SV1BEE KM17WX -14 +11 2 m. FT8 ES 1846 17:34 SV1JDY KM18VA +14 +27 2 m. FT8 ES 1839 17:36 SV2JAO KN1ØDN 59 59 2 m. SSB ES 1530 17:39 SV9IOQ KM25AL 59 59 2 m. SSB ES 2113 17:43 SV9CVY KM25KA 59 59 2 m. SSB ES 2186 17:44 Z33TI KNØ1SI -04 -01 2 m. FT8 ES 1425 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 18:47 TA7OM KN8ØXX -10 -11 2 m. FT8 ES 2235 18:50 R7RBE KN64SM -04 -02 2 m. FT8 ES 1702 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 19:41 IT9HTV JM76MX -17 +14 2 m. FT8 ES 1803 ------------------------------------------------------------------
I entirely concentrated on 2 m so didn’t work much on 4 m. But from the few QSOs made 5B4AIF (KM64) and SV9CJO (KM25) are certainly worth mention. After all the spook was over it openend again late evening to GM with the usual suspects.