09 March 2023

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• Unusual skywave peaks today on the short ~50 mile paths between KP2AE and K4CSO to W4DEX even though the D-layer ionization was slightly higher today than yesterday.  (see SSB reports below)  KGØVL had no copy on the 808 mile path from W4DEX today but had 319 full transmission, no qsb yesterday.  

16:50 WW8II-BRUCE: Solar flux 182, A-index 8, K-index 3

17:20 WW8II-BRUCE: Magnetometers @1710ut GOES 16 104nt, GOES 17 96.4nt

17:21 WW8II-BRUCE: Solar wind @1708ut 449km/s, PHI 228, Density 6.21p/cm3

CW Reports:
WW8II-BRUCE: 2 min CW WW8II 1710, K0AWU 1712, k5HFG 1714, WY3T 1716, W4DEX 1718

17:12 WY3T-TIM: WW8II cw no copy/detect

17:12 K0AWU-BILL: WW8II -- START det, det-1db, 1db,1-2db, at 1 MIN det, det, det, det, at END det

17:12 W4DEX-DEX: WW8II CW not heard, good visual on both antennas with QSB dip

17:12 K5HFG-DON: WW8II no detect

17:13 K5HFG-DON: K0AWU no detect

17:14 W4DEX-DEX: K0AWU CW no signal detected

17:14 WY3T-TIM: K0AWU cw no copy/detect

17:14 WW8II-BRUCE: K0AWU start 0, 0, det, 0, 1min 0, 0, 0, 0, EOT 0,

17:15 KG0VL-JEFF: WW8II: very weak tone heard middle of test, good detection full transmission.

17:15 W4DEX-DEX: K5HFG CW no signal detected

17:16 K0AWU-BILL: K5HFG -- Nothing heard or detected with SpecLab

17:16 WW8II-BRUCE: K5HFG start 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 min 0, 0, 0, 0, EOT 0

17:16 WY3T-TIM: K5HFG cw no copy/detect

17:17 KG0VL-JEFF: KØAWU: mostly 529 with qsb

17:18 K0AWU-BILL: WY3T -- Nothing heard or detected with SpecLab

17:18 WW8II-BRUCE: WY3T start 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 min 0, 0, 0, 0, EOT 0

17:18 K5HFG-DON: WY3T no detect

17:18 KG0VL-JEFF: No copy from K5HFG

17:18 KG0VL-JEFF: No copy from WY3T

17:20 KP2AE-JOE: no dx today w4dex 599+10 to 549 wild qsb still not to bad day for locals

17:20 K0AWU-BILL: W4DEX -- Nothing heard or detected with SpecLab

17:20 WW8II-BRUCE: W4DEX start 0, det, 0, 0, 1min det, 0, 0, 0-5db, 0, EOT 0

17:20 WY3T-TIM: W4DEX cw no copy/detect

17:20 KG0VL-JEFF: W4DEX: no detection

17:20 K5HFG-DON: W4DEX no detect

 17:21 W4DEX-DEX: WY3T CW no signal detected

Received at W4DEX:

SSB Reports:

17:01 W4DEX-DEX: KP2AE SSB 55, strong skywave

17:03 WY3T-TIM: Heard no SSB here

17:04 W4DEX-DEX: K4CSO SSB 53, slightly up from usual with some skywave

17:25 W4DEX-DEX: KP2AE SSB now S7 peak!