22 December 2022

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16:50 WW8II-BRUCE: Solar flux 139, A-index 9, K-index 3

17:22 WW8II-BRUCE: Interesting QSB, The solar events are in the mid B level with a D layer of less than 3db

17:24 WW8II-BRUCE: Magnetometers @1710ut GOES 16 105nt, GOES 17 101nt

17:24 WW8II-BRUCE: Solar wind @1714ut 437 km/s, PHI 135, Density 8.90p/cm3

CW Reports:
KG0VL-JEFF: 2 minute CW schedule: WW8II 1710, KGØVL 1712, KØAWU 1714, K5HFG 1716, KN4NVU 1718, W4DEX 1720

17:12 K0AWU-BILL: WW8II -- START 27db, 25db, 26db, 26db, at 1 min 25db, 28db, 30db, 30db, at END 28db

17:12 W4DEX-DEX: WW8II CW 589 peak, slight QSB

17:12 KW4DE-DARRELL: WW8II 559 on peaks, avg 539 100% copy with moderate 6-10 db qsb

17:12 KG0VL-JEFF: WW8II: from noise to S3, deep qsb. Copied around 50% of transmission.

17:12 K5HFG-DON: WW8II no detect

17:14 WW8II-BRUCE:  KG0VL start det 8db, 319copy, 12db, 10db, now 419 1min 18db 21db, 18db, 519copy, 12db, 2-5db, EOT 12db,

17:14 K0AWU-BILL: KG0VL - start 33db, 34db, 35db, 31db, at 1 min 36db, 30-20db, 33db, 35db, at END 15-25db

17:14 KW4DE-DARRELL: KG0VL cw no audible copy today, detecting lightning bursts now

17:14 W4DEX-DEX: KG0VL CW 439 first min, fade into noise, good visual full transmission with 20 dB fade

17:14 K5HFG-DON: KG0VL no detect

17:16 WW8II-BRUCE: K0AWU solid 519 copy 18db, 16db, 12db, 419copynow, 12db, 1min 14db, still 419 copy,20db, 12-16db, EOT 25db 529 copy

17:16 KW4DE-DARRELL: K0AWU cw no audible copy today---increasing static here

17:16 W4DEX-DEX: K0AWU CW not heard, no signal detected among the QRN

17:17 KG0VL-JEFF: KØAWU: 539 at start, peaked 549 after thirty seconds, 529 at midpoint with a deep fade into the noise, strong qsb, 529 at EOT.

17:18 WW8II-BRUCE: K5HFG start 0, 0, 0, 0, 1min 0, 0, 0, 0, EOT 0

17:18 K0AWU-BILL: K5HFG -- Nothing heard or detected with SpecLab

17:18 KN4NVU-PAUL: I heard k5hfg at 339 briefly, then faded. Nothing prior.

17:18 K5HFG-DON: K0AWU no detect

17:18 W4DEX-DEX: K5HFG CW no signal detected

17:18 KW4DE-DARRELL: K5HFG cw no signal heard today

17:19 KG0VL-JEFF: K5HFG: no copy except for a distinct "beep" at 1717 and 20 seconds. Not sure if it was from Don or not?

17:19 W4DEX-DEX: KN4NVU CW keying heard but no copy, good visual signal with QSB

17:20 KW4DE-DARRELL: KN4NVU cw not heard, S9 lightning now

17:20 WW8II-BRUCE: KN4NVU start 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 min 0, 0, 0, 0, EOT 0

17:20 K0AWU-BILL: KN4NVU -- Nothing heard or detected with SpecLab

17:20 K5HFG-DON: KN4NVU possible quick visual ??

17:20 KG0VL-JEFF: KN4NVU: heard very weak CW briefly at about twenty seconds, no copy.

17:22 K5HFG-DON: W4DEX no detect

17:22 WW8II-BRUCE: W4DEX start 15db, 5-8db 419copy, 20db now 519 copy, 15-20db, 1 min 27db, 15-20db, solid 529 copy, 24db, 15-20db, EOT 17db

17:22 KG0VL-JEFF: W4DEX: could hear most of the transmission, 319 with qsb. Signal 419 at EOT.

17:22 K0AWU-BILL: W4DEX -- Start 0,0,det,det,at 1 min det,det, det, at END det. --- each time period where sig was detected was about 60% of the time


17:22 KW4DE-DARRELL: W4DEX cw 599, no qsb detected, lightning bursts 100 mi east near Fayetteville, NC

Received at W4DEX:

SSB Reports:

16:56 W4DEX-DEX: WW8II SSB 3x2

16:57 WW8II-BRUCE: K0AWU nice SSB QSO 52 to 53

16:57 K0AWU-BILL: WW8II S2-3 SSB very good copy and QSO

16:58 WW8II-BRUCE: WOW 608 MILE SSB Q with K0AWU

17:06 KW4DE-DARRELL: WW8II SSB heard 53

17:07 KG0VL-JEFF: WW8II calling KW4DE SSB, very weak

17:08 K5HFG-DON: No SSB detected here

17:27 KG0VL-JEFF: WW8II calling SSB, no reply

17:27 W4DEX-DEX: WW8II SSB 31