16 April 2023

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16:21 WW8II-BRUCE: Solar flux 176, A-index 9, K-index 1

16:48 WW8II-BRUCE: Magnetometers @1640 GOES 16, 110nt, GOES 18 103nt

16:51 WW8II-BRUCE: Solar wind @ 1643ut 343 km/s, PHI 238, density 6.37p/cm3

CW Reports:
KG0VL-JEFF: 2 minute CW schedule: WW8II 1640, KGØVL 1642, AB4AM 1644, W4DEX 1646

16:42 AB4AM-ROB: WW8II No copy/detect

16:42 W4DEX-DEX: WW8II CW not heard, weak visual at start, good peak at eot

16:45 KG0VL-JEFF: WW8II: very weak cw heard just above the noise, strong visual detection full period

16:44 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL start 0, 0, 0, det???, 1 min 5db, 7db with long tone, 2db, 0, EOT 3-4db

16:44 W4DEX-DEX: KG0VL CW not heard, good visual at start, weak at eot. lots of QSB

16:48 AB4AM-ROB: KG0VL No copy/detect

16:45 W4DEX-DEX: AB4AM CW wow, fast 599 peaks, deep fades

16:46 WW8II-BRUCE: AB4AM start 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 min 0, 0, 0, 0, EOT 0

16:48 KG0VL-JEFF: AB4AM: signal detection just after one minute for duration of test, peaked around 5db above the noise.

16:48 WW8II-BRUCE: W4DEX start 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 min 0, 0, 0, 0, EOT 0

16:49 AB4AM-ROB: W4DEX 20,15,18,15,1 min 6,10,15,18 1 quick drop to the noise just before EOT

16:49 KG0VL-JEFF: W4DEX: no cw heard, good visual detection until final 10 seconds or so and then signal gone

Received at W4DEX:

SSB Reports:

16:31 AB4AM-ROB: Called W4DEX SSB no copy so far

16:34 W4DEX-DEX: AB4AM SSB 52

16:35 W4DEX-DEX: K4CSO SSB 52

16:36 W4DEX-DEX: Appears to be some skywave. K4CSO peaked 53 while AB4AM went down to 41