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. 
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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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