1899 kHz Midday Propagation Test

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

05 December 2023

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16:53 WW8II-BRUCE: Solar flux 138, A-index, 9 ,K-index 3

17:20 WW8II-BRUCE: Magetometers @ 1710ut GOES 16, 110nt, GOES 18, 107nt

17:22 WW8II-BRUCE: SW @ 1712 ut 620km/s, PHI 280, Density 2.10p/cm3

17:27 WW8II-BRUCE: There was a quick rise in activity a flare got us right during the CW test

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

17:12 K0AWU-BILL: WW8II -- START 15db, 15db, 15db, 15db, at 1 MIN 13db, 10-13db, 5-11db, 7-10db, at END 7-10db

17:12 W4DEX-DEX: WW8II CW not heard, visual 20 dB over noise first 10 sec, then drop to 10 dB over noise

17:13 K5HFG-DON: WW8II, Very faint visual at 17 11 09 to EOT

17:13 KW4DE-DARRELL: WW8II cw barely heard midway into transmission, no usable copy

17:13 WA4LDU-JOE: WW8II cw no copy - very faint trace last 45 sec

17:15 KG0VL-JEFF: WW8II: 539 average. Peaked >40db above the noise floor.

17:14 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL start 30db 30db, 539 copy, 30db, 33db, 1 min 32db, copy 539, 27db, 21db, 22db, 529cpy, EOT 21db

17:14 K0AWU-BILL: KG0VL START 30db, 30db, 31db, 31db, at 1 MIN 31db, 29db, 5-20db, 20-25db, at END 18-20db

17:14 KW4DE-DARRELL: KG0VL cw not heard today; all sigs appear weaker near and far today

17:14 W4DEX-DEX: KG0VL CW not heard, visual near 20 dB over noise

17:14 K5HFG-DON: KG0VL faint visual entire Tx. no tone and much QSB

17:14 WA4LDU-JOE: KG0VL cw no copy - Strong trace -faded out last 15 sec

17:16 W4DEX-DEX: K0AWU CW no signal detected.

17:16 K5HFG-DON: K0AWU no detect

17:16 WW8II-BRUCE: K0AWU det to 3db, 2db, det to 5db 1 min 4db, 7db,det, det EOT 0

17:16 KW4DE-DARRELL: K0AWU cw not heard today

17:16 WA4LDU-JOE: K0AWU cw no detect

17:17 KG0VL-JEFF: KØAWU: 529-539 with QSB. Peaked around 40db above the noise.

17:17 KW4DE-DARRELL: K5HFG cw not heard today; listening with agc off, 50cy bandwidth

17:18 WW8II-BRUCE: K5HFG NO signal detected

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

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

17:18 WA4LDU-JOE: K5HFG cw no detect

17:18 KG0VL-JEFF: K5HFG: no signal detected

17:19 KW4DE-DARRELL: W4DEX cw 599 avg sig with several deep qsb nulls from 20over S9 down to S5

17:20 WA4LDU-JOE: W4DEX cw 559 steady

17:20 K5HFG-DON: W4DEX no detect

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

17:20 KP2AE-JOE: no dx today w4dex 579 /w qsb not much SW poor day for locals

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

17:21 KG0VL-JEFF: W4DEX: started test peaking 25db above the noise. Took a big fade and eventually lost signal just after one minute.

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