3 February 2020

Propagation between stations in the southeast was noticeably down today.   Even on the short 51 miles between KP2AE and W4DEX.  WY3T, FL, was very weak into SC and NC.  The most northern path between KGØVL and KØAWU was still holding up well:

17:55 K0AWU-BILL: KG0VL --- "Carbon copy of yesterday" 45db above noise floor first min then slow fade to 30db over next 30sec then back up to 45db at the end

Link below is KØAWU as received by KGØVL.  Sounds as if KØAWU is next door instead of 322 miles away:

KØAWU CW at KGØVL

The KGØVL - W4DEX link seems to be holding up well.  On CW KGØVL was 569 at W4DEX with one slow fade during the two-minute transmission.  Several Q5 SSB exchanges were made.  Just after the daily test closed KGØVL was in QSO with KØAWU and was still very good SSB copy at W4DEX.

KGØVL SSB at W4DEX

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17:29 KG0VL-JEFF: W4DEX now on SSB

17:29 WY3T-TIM: Idle noise her up by 1 S unit (SSB is S5 and CW is S3)

17:31 WY3T-TIM: W4DEX in the noise almost readable

17:37 W4DEX-DEX: KP2AE, WA4LDU, and K4FI all seem to be a bit weaker than normal

17:37 W4DEX-DEX: WY3T was heard but very weak

17:38 K0AWU-BILL: KG0VL S6 SSB calling DEX

17:38 K5HFG: copy KG0VL 55, now listening CW

17:38 K4FI-DOUG: WY3T No Copy Extremely Weak

17:39 WY3T-TIM: WA4LDU in the noise almost readable but weak

17:39 KG0VL-JEFF: W4DEX 5X2 SSB

17:41 K4FI-DOUG: W4DEX 5/7/9 some QSB Quick Down and Right back up, not very often.

17:41 KG0VL-JEFF: W4DEX 549 with qsb

17:42 WY3T-TIM: W4DEX is 429 with QSB fading completely out towards the end

17:42 WA4LDU-JOE: W4DEX CW 599 some QSB

17:42 K5HFG: W4DEX detected on scope, no copy

17:43 K4FI-DOUG: No Copy K5HFG

17:43 WY3T-TIM: K5HFG no copy on CW

17:44 KG0VL-JEFF: K5HFG 529-539 light qsb

17:44 W4DEX-DEX: K5HFG no copy

17:44 WA4LDU-JOE: no copy K5HFG CW

17:45 WA4LDU-JOE: K4FI CW 599

17:45 W4DEX-DEX: K4FI 579 slight QSB

17:46 WY3T-TIM: K4FI 529 to 559 on CW slight QSB

17:46 KG0VL-JEFF: K4FI 519 faded towards the end

17:46 K4FI-DOUG: WA4LDU 5/8/9

17:47 K5HFG: K4FI no copy

17:47 W4DEX-DEX: WA4LDU 579 with more QSB than noticed on K4FI

17:47 KG0VL-JEFF: WA4LDU 519-529 qsb to fade and back up

17:49 K4FI-DOUG: WY3T Barely Hear Tim getting stronger

17:49 K5HFG: WA4LDU no copy

17:49 K5HFG: WY3T no copy

17:49 K4FI-DOUG: WY3T Fading back down into noise

17:49 KG0VL-JEFF: Did not copy WY3T

17:50 W4DEX-DEX: WY3T 559 deep fade near eot...down to about 529

17:50 WY3T-TIM: WA4LDU can tell he is in there at first then 419 at the end

17:50 WA4LDU-JOE: WY3T CW started in noise and build to 519 after first 15 sec

17:51 KG0VL-JEFF: KØAWU 579 strong

17:51 WY3T-TIM: K0AWU no copy on CW

17:52 WA4LDU-JOE: K0AWU CW no copy

17:52 K5HFG: K0AWU no copy

17:52 W4DEX-DEX: KØAWU not heard

17:53 K4FI-DOUG: I think I hear KG0VL in the noise, been much worse than usual lately.

17:53 WY3T-TIM: KG0VL no copy on CW

17:54 W4DEX-DEX: KG0VL 569 at start, fade fast to 529 then slow rise back up to 569 at end

17:54 K5HFG: KG0VL 539 entire Tx

17:54 KP2AE-JOE: locals are down k4fi 54n wa4ldu 52n but kg0vl was 51n at times

17:54 WA4LDU-JOE: KG0VL CW - copied his call twice only

17:54 WY3T-TIM: KG0VL no copy on CW

17:55 K0AWU-BILL: KG0VL --- "Carbon copy of yesterday" 45db above noise floor first min then slow fade to 30db over next 30sec then back up to 45db at the end

17:55 WY3T-TIM: Bad day down here....

17:56 KP2AE-JOE: can hear kg0vl on SSB at times

17:58 K0AWU-BILL: KG0VL -- looking at my notes -- Jeff was 6db weaker today than yesterday on peaks, low point almost the same.. But same QSB pattern.

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