Propagation seems to have improved today, at least on the path between South Carolina and Michigan-Iowa. KGØVL made a complete SSB exchange with K4FI, 838 miles. WW8II was also hearing K4FI. Both KGØVL and WW8II had partial copy on WB4WCJ. That's 932 miles from KGØVL!

W2AZQ reported: "hearing Jeff KG0VL today 569 to 579 1735-1737 including no QSB 1736-1737z"

A solar EUV wave has been crossing the solar disk for the past week and is about to disappear as the sun rotates. Perhaps this has been responsible for the poorer conditions than we experienced during early December. See the link below:

https://twitter.com/halocme/status/1210003033855315971

From this link the EUV wave can be seen crossing the sun by selecting the date:

http://suntoday.lmsal.com/suntoday/?suntoday_date=2019-12-31

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17:29 KG0VL-JEFF: Hearing weak SSB now

17:30 WW8II-BRUCE: iI am also hearing weak SSB

17:32 WW8II-BRUCE: I AM NOW HEARING SSB LOUDER NOT SURE WHO

17:35 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL CW 519 - 529 AT BEST

17:36 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL 419 ON THE INVERTED V ANTENNA

17:36 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL 529 ON THE SAL ANTENNA

17:37 K5HFG: copy KG0VL @1736 RST 529

17:37 WW8II-BRUCE: K5HFG CAN DETECT BUT NO COPY

17:38 KG0VL-JEFF: K5HFG 529 but signal is up and down

17:39 WW8II-BRUCE: K4FI 549 WITH SOME QSB

17:39 WB4WCJ-PAUL: k4fi weak CW

17:40 WW8II-BRUCE: K4FI NOW 559 ON QSB PEAKS

17:41 WW8II-BRUCE: COPY K4FI SOLID FULL 2 MIN

17:41 KG0VL-JEFF: Hearing KF4FI EM94 about 529 with QSB

17:41 K5HFG: can detect but no copy on K4FI

17:42 K4FI-DOUG: WW8II is fairly strong and steady S4 - S5

17:42 K4FI-DOUG: solid copy on WW8II very little QSB

17:43 KG0VL-JEFF: WW8II builds to 569 then fades back to the noise.

17:43 K5HFG: copy WW8II 319 now below the noise

17:44 KG0VL-JEFF: Just heard K4FI call Bruce on SSB with a good signal.

17:47 K5HFG: can detect SSB but no copy

17:47 WW8II-BRUCE: I WAS COPING KG0VL SSB 52 ON PEAKS

17:47 KG0VL-JEFF: Just talked to K4FI on SSB 52

17:47 WW8II-BRUCE: I HEAR SSB IN THE NOISE BUT MY NOISE IS AT LEAST 10DB MORE THAN USUAL

17:48 KG0VL-JEFF: Was also hearing WB4WCJ in QSO with K4FI

17:50 KG0VL-JEFF: WW8II now very weak on SSB

17:50 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL SSB RIGHT AT THE NOISE

17:51 KG0VL-JEFF: Still hearing Doug and Paul on SSB

17:52 KG0VL-JEFF: K4FI-KGØVL 838 miles

17:53 WW8II-BRUCE: HEARING KG0VL IN THE NOISE AND MY NOISE IS INCREASING IT IS ALL STATIC CANNOT BLOCK IT WITH THE NB..

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