08 January 2020
Today we experienced the worst propagation of the past week. Contacts at over 400 miles could be made using CW but only during brief propagation enhancements. QSB was also very obvious on the shorter paths but instead of signal peaks, we had slow fades even on the shortest path of 51 miles. ======================================================================
17:31 WB4WCJ-PAUL: WA4LDU weak to unreadable
17:32 W4DEX-DEX: WA4LDU S8
17:32 W4DEX-DEX: KP2AE S8
17:32 WW8II-BRUCE: I JUST CALLED KG0VL NO RESPONSE
17:32 KG0VL-JEFF: No signals heard here either, now I know how Don must feel.
17:32 W4DEX-DEX: WB4WCJ barely heard
17:33 KC3GHK-ANDY: No copy here. sent some slow code. Andy
17:34 W4DEX-DEX: WY3T now Q5 S3
17:34 WB4WCJ-PAUL:Copy wy3t
17:36 WW8II-BRUCE: MAYBE MY ANTENNAS ARE BROKE!! JUST STATIC
17:37 KC3GHK-ANDY: 40 and 80 struggling today.
17:38 WB4WCJ-PAUL:Now copy WA4LCU and WY3T
17:40 WW8II-BRUCE: I THINK I DETECT WHAT MAYBE SSB DEEP IN THE NOISE
17:40 KG0VL-JEFF: Weak SSB
17:41 WA4LDU-JOE: Dex CW 599 here
17:42 WY3T-TIM: W4DEX 599 no QSB
17:42 WW8II-BRUCE: W4DEX NO COPY
17:42 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL 519
17:42 WW8II-BRUCE: QSB BUILDING TO 539
17:43 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL QSB BACK TO 519
17:43 WB4WCJ-PAUL:w4dex cw in noise
17:43 W4DEX-DEX: KG0VL Initially 539, up to 559 at end of transmission
17:44 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL 539 AT THE END OF TRANSMISSION
17:45 KG0VL-JEFF: W4DEX 519, weak, yet signal remained for entire 2 minutes
17:45 WW8II-BRUCE: WY3T 319
17:45 WB4WCJ-PAUL: cw ldu 549
17:45 W4DEX-DEX: WY3T 569 and getting stronger....589 at end
17:46 WA4LDU-JOE: no copy on KG0VL
17:46 KG0VL-JEFF: Nothing heard from WY3T
17:46 WA4LDU-JOE: WY3T CW 589
17:47 WY3T-TIM: KG0VL no copy cw
17:48 W4DEX-DEX: WW8II 539 at start.....fade to 429 at middle and up to 559 at end
17:48 WA4LDU-JOE: no copy WW8II
17:48 WY3T-TIM: WW8II no copy cw
17:48 KG0VL-JEFF: WW8II 539 first minute, then gone for duration.
17:50 W4DEX-DEX: WB4WCJ now S5
17:51 WY3T-TIM: W4DEX faded out on SSB
17:51 WW8II-BRUCE: I AM NOW HEARING SSB SOUNDS LIKE DEX
17:52 W4DEX-DEX: Good signals among the SE stations except for a few deep fades
17:52 WW8II-BRUCE: SSB GONE BACK TO STATIC NOISE
17:52 WY3T-TIM: WB4WCJ has been 5 x 7 on SSB
17:56 WW8II-BRUCE: STILL HEARING SSB DEEP IN THE NOISE
17:56 WY3T-TIM: W4DEX faded out again on SSB
17:59 KG0VL-JEFF: W4DEX 519 calling WW8II
17:59 WW8II-BRUCE: I AM NOT COPY W4DEX
18:01 WW8II-BRUCE: I COPY KG0VL WORKING W4DEX NOW HEAR RRRR
18:01 W4DEX-DEX: KG0VL now 559 CW
18:03 WW8II-BRUCE: JEFF CALL ME WW8II
18:03 W4DEX-DEX: OK, just the QSB factor
18:05 W4DEX-DEX: WW8II CW now barely detectable
18:06 W4DEX-DEX: Up to Q4 copy now
18:09 WW8II-BRUCE: I COPIED KG0VL
18:10 WW8II-BRUCE: LOTS OF REAL DEEO QSB AND WHEN THE SIGNALS PEAKED THEY WERE JUST ABOVE THE NOISE AT BEST
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