25 February 2020

DST Ø

Propagation was good today with the usual QSB between KGØVL, KØAWU, and WW8II.  WW8II heard CW briefly from K5HFG and may have detected WY3T.  No GA or Carolinas stations present today but W4DEX was recording.  At W4DEX WW8II, KGØVL and WY3T on CW was very good copy.  Just a trace of signal was detected from K5HFG and no signal from KØAWU.  

Image below shows signal levels from the above stations.  Notice the slow QSB cycle:

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17:28 WW8II-BRUCE: I heard someone tune up

17:30 K5HFG: I was tuning about 5 minutes ago

17:30 WW8II-BRUCE: kg0vl NICE S7 SIGNAL GOOD ARMCHAIR COPY

17:31 K0AWU-BILL: KGoVL sounding good SSB

17:33 K0AWU-BILL: KG0VL 5-4 to 57 SSB QUICK "QSB"

17:33 KG0VL-JEFF: WW8II 5-5 on ssb

17:35 WW8II-BRUCE: JUST NOTED QSB ON KG0VL FROM A S7 TO JUST ABOVE THE NOISE THEN BACK QUICK

17:36 K0AWU-BILL: KG0VL instantaneous signal level changes by 3 S units or more. Strange

17:39 K5HFG: Copy WW8II SSB for a few seconds in the noise

17:39 WY3T-TIM: Copying no SSB today

17:39 K0AWU-BILL: WW8II popped up to S2 SSB for a moment ... cool

17:40 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL AT NOISE THEN BACK TO 53

17:40 K0AWU-BILL: Still Hearing WW8II just above the noise SSB

17:41 KG0VL-JEFF: WW8II up to 579 with qsb and sharp fading

17:41 K0AWU-BILL: WW8II 20db steady no QSB

17:41 WY3T-TIM: WW8II cw is no copy

17:42 K5HFG: K0AWU Hear tones in the noise, no copy

17:43 KG0VL-JEFF: KØAWU up and down from 559 to gone and back up again

17:44 WY3T-TIM: K0AWU cw is no copy

17:44 K5HFG: K0AWU no copy

17:45 WW8II-BRUCE: K0AWU START 519 BUILD TO 529 SOLID COPY THEN AFTER 45 SEC 419 COPY THEN AFTER 1 MIN SOLID 529 AGAIN

17:45 WY3T-TIM: KG0VL CW is no copy

17:45 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL SOLID COPY 599 START QSB TO 579 THEN QUICK BACK TO 599

17:46 K5HFG: KG0VL copy just above the noise. maybe 318 at best.

17:46 WW8II-BRUCE: WY3T DETECT IN THE NOISE NO REAL COPY

17:47 WW8II-BRUCE: AFTER 1 MIN STILL NO COPY ON WY3T

17:47 K0AWU-BILL: KG0VL NO QUICK sig level changes ... started 32db brief 20db at 30sec then up to 39dbat 1min QSB up and down between 33-39db for the balance

17:47 WW8II-BRUCE: WY3T DETECT ONLY

17:48 K5HFG: WY3T no copy

17:48 KG0VL-JEFF: No copy from WY3T

17:49 WW8II-BRUCE: K5HFG COPY CALL ONE TIME JUST AT THE NOISE LEVEL 337

17:50 WY3T-TIM: K5HFG CW is no copy

17:50 KG0VL-JEFF: K5HFG 529 with qsb, stronger on TX vertical antenna

17:50 WW8II-BRUCE: NOW LISTENING SSB MY NOISE HAS CHANGED TO MORE BACON FRYING SOUND NOW

17:51 K5HFG: Detect SSB but no copy

17:51 K0AWU-BILL: Hearing WW8II in QSO with KG0VL SSB

17:52 WY3T-TIM: idle noise was typical today SSB S4-5 and S2-3 on cw

17:52 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL QSO S9+5

17:54 K5HFG: no SSB copy now. Noise has increased. CUT. 73, all

17:54 WY3T-TIM: No SSB or CW copy today

17:55 WW8II-BRUCE: I AM HEARING SSB IN THE NOISE

17:56 WW8II-BRUCE: NOTING QSB ON KG0VL IN QSO WITH K0AWU GO FROM S9 TO 52 COPY

17:56 K0AWU-BILL: WW8II S2-S3 SSB have a local impulse noise from time to time

17:57 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL + 20

17:59 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL STILL SOLID 59 COPY
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