Tonight was the usual first Tuesday every month 2 m NAC (Nordic Activity Contest) which is accompanied by the UKAC (UK Activity Contest) as well as the IAC (Italian Activity Contest) as well as the SPAC (SP = Polish Activity Contest). That means the band usually sees quite a high activity level during these 4 hours events. While I was QRV in the NACs (which also have an Open Class for non-Scandinavian participants) regularly in my younger years I now try to hand out a few points at least whenever possible (which is unfortunately not that often nowadays). Did so this evening again but started falling asleep right in the middle. 😉
Whenever waking up and quickly tuning the band I recognized there was some tropo condx between western Scandinavia and the United Kingdom. Also a few Germans like Tor, DJ8MS, located about 200 km west of here, could works lots of Gs but unfortunately nothing overhere. It was just after the end of the NAC that conditions picked up that much that some ducting started to reach over here, too! Luckily the UKAC only ends 30 minutes after the NAC thus there was still some activity on the band and I could grab a few nice DX contacts! 😎
------------------------------------------------------------------ TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE PROP. QRB ------------------------------------------------------------------ 21:05 G3CKR/P IO93AD 55 59 2 m. SSB TR 1075 21:11 G8DMU/P IO94CB 55 52 2 m. SSB TR 1057 21:16 G4CLA IO92JL 52 59 2 m. SSB TR 1036 21:19 MØGAV/P IO93EH 59 59 2 m. SSB TR 1051 21:26 MØMDY IO93HH 59 59 2 m. SSB TR 1034 21:29 MØHOM IO93QO 52 57 2 m. SSB TR 983 ------------------------------------------------------------------
The loudest of the crowd was MØGAV/P with a real s9 signal over the 1.000 km path: