Being back from the WPX-SSB tour to JO73 I checked QRL emails Monday afternoon to make sure it would not be too much when returning into the office on Tuesday. Being done I just had a quick look at the DX cluster before wanting to go to my YL’s home. Astonished to see 2 m open via Aurora … who would have expected that being almost in sunspot minimum? 😉 Quickly turned on the rig and did a few QSOs on 2 m. Always nice to meet all the old VHF DX friends even having worked them numerous times before. Likewise nice to see some new callsigns in the log like SM5BTS. 😎
Finding no new stations to work on 2 m and nobody answering my CQs I checked 6 m but not much activity there either. Seeing cluster spots for 10 m Aurora QSOs from Scandinavia I went down another band. Boy, that was quite some fun, too. 😎 On 10 m signals are even less distorted than on 6 m so you can easily do SSB without too much distortion …
LA4UOA via Aurora on 28 MHz:
SM6YNO via Aurora on 28 MHz:
------------------------------------------------------------------ TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE PROP. QRB ------------------------------------------------------------------ 15:53 LA0BY JO59FW 57A 59A 2 m. CW AUR 784 15:57 G4KUX IO94BP 57A 55A 2 m. CW AUR 1063 16:02 SM5BTS JO89WI 53A 57A 2 m. CW AUR 722 16:09 LA3BO JO59CD 57A 59A 2 m. CW AUR 707 16:13 LA6OJ JO38HH 53A 59A 2 m. CW AUR 740 16:18 SM4IVE JO79SD 59A 59A 2 m. CW AUR 667 16:32 SM7GVF JO77GA 57A 55A 2 m. CW AUR 427 16:34 SM6BFE JO68DQ 57A 59A 2 m. CW AUR 623 16:38 LA9BM JP40CN 57A 55A 6 m. CW AUR 896 16:43 LA4UOA JO38QH 57A 55A 10 m. SSB AUR 712 16:48 SM6YNO JO67GG 55A 54A 10 m. SSB AUR 466 ------------------------------------------------------------------
After all the YL just had to wait for an hour longer … 😉