The Michigan to the Carolinas path returned today.  WW8II and W4DEX had several SSB exchanges during the regular 1730 to 1800 UT test session.  WW8II was copied on CW and SSB by WA4LDU.  And WW8II had some SSB copy on WA4LDU, K4FI and WB4WCJ.  The WW8II / WB4WCJ path is 698.4 miles.  WA4LDU and WB4WCJ was operating with 100 watts.  KGØVL was not present so conditions between Carolinas to Iowa is unknown. 
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17:26 W4DEX-DEX: WW8II good CW copy, nice to see our path back to normal

17:27 WA4LDU-JOE: WW8II CW good copy here also

17:32 W4DEX-DEX: WA4LDU and K4FI S7

17:32 WW8II-BRUCE: HEARING SSB

17:32 W4DEX-DEX: WB4WCJ S3

17:32 WW8II-BRUCE: W4DEX 55 SSB

17:34 W4DEX-DEX: WW8II SSB S5

17:35 WW8II-BRUCE: 55 COPY ON W4DEX SSB

17:37 WW8II-BRUCE: SOLID SSB COPY ON W4DEX

17:40 W4DEX-DEX: N4AOW SSB S5

17:42 WW8II-BRUCE: W4DEX 579

17:42 WA4LDU-JOE: Dex W4DEX CW 599

17:43 WW8II-BRUCE: W4DEX NOW UP TO 599

17:43 WW8II-BRUCE: W4DEX 559 ON THE INVERTED V AND 599 ON THE SAL ANTENNA

17:45 WA4LDU-JOE: Bruce WW8II CW 539 some QSB

17:46 W4DEX-DEX: WW8II 589 very little QSB noticed

17:47 W4DEX-DEX: WA4LDU 589 no QSB

17:48 WB4WCJ-PAUL: cw w4dex wa4ldu

17:48 WB4WCJ-PAUL: copy n4aow ssb

17:48 WW8II-BRUCE: WA4LDU WAS 579 AT THE BEGINNING THEN QSB TO 519 TOWard the end

17:50 WW8II-BRUCE: W4dex is still 55 SSB

17:53 WW8II-BRUCE: STILL COPY W4DEX IS 55 SSB

17:53 WW8II-BRUCE: QSB ON W4DEX NOW 44 SSB

17:55 WW8II-BRUCE: K4FI NOW 51 SSB

17:56 WW8II-BRUCE: WB4WCJ RIGHT AT THE NOISE LEVEL

17:58 WW8II-BRUCE: DISTANCE FOR WB4WCJ TO WW8II IS 698.4MILES

17:59 WW8II-BRUCE: I AM COPY WA4LDU AND K4FI 44 SSB
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