20 February 2020

DST -9

Today propagation was very different from yesterday.  We experienced poor propagation below the 40th parallel but very good condition above.  Even the shortest path, 51 miles, between KP2AE and W4DEX was marginal at times.  WY3T heard no SSB and was very weak on CW at AB4AM, KP2AE and W4DEX.  WW8II on CW was fair copy at W4DEX during quick peaks but into the noise on fades.  KGØVL's signal at W4DEX was the weakest received recently.

To the north propagation between  KØAWU and KGØVL was very good with  KØAWU reporting KGØVL at 40dB above the noise at times.  The WW8II / KGØVL path was also very good during most of the test with several SSB exchanges.

The real surprise for the day was the possibility that WY3T's CW was detected at WW8II over the 814 mile path.  

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17:25 WW8II-BRUCE: COPY AB4AM CW JUST ABOVE THE NOISE

17:26 K0AWU-BILL:  Noise floor SSB S5 to S6

17:27 AB4AM-ROB: hearing WW8II I think... in the noise

17:29 AB4AM-ROB: Hearing SSB way in the noise

17:30 WY3T-TIM: No SSB so far

17:30 WW8II-BRUCE: NOT COPY ANYTHING HERE SO FAR

17:30 W4DEX-DEX: Been calling WY3T, AB4AM, and WW8II

17:31 W4DEX-DEX: KP2AE up and down, not as good as yesterday

17:31 WY3T-TIM: Idle noise a bit higher than the past few weeks SSB S5 and CW S3

17:31 WY3T-TIM: Heard nothing

17:32 K0AWU-BILL: KG0VL 59 SSB ---- a long time since that was the case!

17:32 KG0VL-JEFF: Wow, KØAWU 5X9 on ssb!

17:34 N4BNO-ROD: w4dex is all that I am hearing at present

17:34 W4DEX-DEX: KG0VL heard calling WW8II

17:35 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL NICE 56 SSB QSO WITH WW8II

17:35 AB4AM-ROB: No SSB heard.. Called W4DEX and KP2AE

17:35 K0AWU-BILL: Briefly heard Bruce WW8II right at the noise in QSO with KG0VL SSB

17:36 WW8II-BRUCE: DID NOT COPY ANYTHING FROM K0AWU ON SSB

17:36 WY3T-TIM: Still no SSB down south today

17:36 WW8II-BRUCE: I AM RUNNING FULL LEGAL LIMIT TODAY

17:37 W4DEX-DEX: AB4AM heard calling WY3T

17:37 WY3T-TIM: Just copied a couple of words from AB4AM deep in the noise

17:40 W4DEX-DEX: WW8II initially 549 fast fade close to noise then up to 559

17:41 KG0VL-JEFF: WW8II 599 booming signal

17:41 W4DEX-DEX: WW8II good 559 peaks, dips into the noise

17:41 WY3T-TIM: WW8II cw no copy

17:42 K0AWU-BILL: WW8II started 12db then up to 20db during first min sig steady at 20db for the balance!

17:42 AB4AM-ROB: WW8II Started 219 the 449 the rest of trans.

17:43 AB4AM-ROB: W4DEX 559 steady

17:44 WY3T-TIM: W4DEX CW 219 initially and then faded out

17:44 WW8II-BRUCE: W4DEX NIL COPY

17:44 KG0VL-JEFF: W4DEX 419, most of the transmission below the noise, stronger towards the end

17:45 WW8II-BRUCE: AB4AM 519

17:46 WW8II-BRUCE: AB4AM QSB TO NOISE THEN BACK TO 529 AT THE END

17:46 WY3T-TIM: AB4AM CW 419 to 529

17:46 KG0VL-JEFF: AB4AM 529 fairly steady

17:46 W4DEX-DEX: AB4AM 569 peaks, much less QSB than from WW8II

17:47 KG0VL-JEFF: KØAWU 599 on TX and RX antennas

17:47 WW8II-BRUCE: K0AWU COPY 3 DB ABOVE NOISE FOR FEW SECONDS

17:47 WY3T-TIM: K0AWU cw no copy

17:48 WW8II-BRUCE: K0AWU SOLID 529 COPY NEAR THE END OF TRANSMISSION

17:48 AB4AM-ROB: K0AWU No Copy

17:48 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL SOLID 599

17:48 W4DEX-DEX: K0AWU no copy

17:49 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL SOLID 30 DB ABOVE THE NOISE REAL GOOD COPY

17:49 WY3T-TIM: KG0VL CW no copy

17:49 AB4AM-ROB: KG0VL 219 to the noise @49:30

17:50 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL SOLID NO QSB NOTED

17:50 W4DEX-DEX: KG0VL initially 329 faded into noise, just detectable for the remainder of the transmission

17:50 K0AWU-BILL: KG0VL started 40db slow QSB to32 DB at 45sec stable for balance of first min, brief QSB to 20db then up to 40db for the balance

17:50 WW8II-BRUCE: WY3T I AM DETECTING IN THE NOISE

17:51 AB4AM-ROB: WY3T 219 to the noise and back up to 219

17:52 KG0VL-JEFF: No copy from WY3T

17:52 WW8II-BRUCE: WY3T I COPIED A 3T MOSTLY DEEP IN THE NOISE

17:52 WW8II-BRUCE: LISTENING SSB AGAIN

17:53 W4DEX-DEX: WY3T seen but not heard

17:54 WW8II-BRUCE: I AM NOW HEARING SSB IN THE NOISE UNABLE TO TELL WHO

17:54 K0AWU-BILL: Interesting the Bruce was 12db stronger here today but heard me the same as yesterday.

17:54 WY3T-TIM: W4DEX I could see your CW on the display better than I could copy. A very dead day on 160.

17:54 AB4AM-ROB: Signals are down quite a bit across the board. My noise came up 1 S unit during CW sequence (Frying Bacon)

17:55 AB4AM-ROB: Barely hearing SSB

17:55 WY3T-TIM: Currently hearing no SSB

17:57 WW8II-BRUCE: K0AWU, COPIED YOUR CALL SEVERAL TIMES YOU WERE ABOVE MY S1 NOISE LEVEL IN CW MODE A FULL S UNIT OR MORE

17:57 W4DEX-DEX: Even the 51mile path between KP2AE and I is going into the noise at times

17:58 WW8II-BRUCE: I AM NOT HEARING ANYONE PRESENTLY

17:58 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL SSB 55

17:58 W4DEX-DEX: Big difference today from the WW8II pipeline we had yesterday

17:59 WW8II-BRUCE: JUST HAD ANOTHER QUICK 55 QSO WITH KG0VL

18:00 KG0VL-JEFF: Bill still quite strong here.

18:01 KG0VL-JEFF: Bruce still 5X5 on ssb here

18:02 K0AWU-BILL: WW8II 5-1 SSB working Jeff
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