01 January 2024

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16:55 WW8II-BRUCE: Solar flux 146, A-index 4, K-index 2

17:20 WW8II-BRUCE: Magnetometers @ 1710ut 113nt, GOES 18, 109nt

17:21 WW8II-BRUCE: Solar wind @ 1715ut 358km/s, PHI 262, Density 7.79p/cm3

WW8II-BRUCE:  C7.72 Peak @ 1704ut just for us

17:07 KG0VL-JEFF: Absorption increasing

CW Reports:
17:06 KG0VL-JEFF: 2 minute CW schedule: W4DEX 1710, AB4AM 1712, KGØVL 1714, WW8II 1716

17:11 KG0VL-JEFF: W4DEX now 36db, yet could not hear him on SSB just seconds previous.

17:12 WW8II-BRUCE: W4DEX start det-3db, 0, det, 3db, 1 min 2-5db, 5-7db, 8db, 5-7db, EOT det-3db

17:12 WA4LDU-JOE: W4DEX cw 589 with strong QSB

17:12 KG0VL-JEFF: W4DEX 539 steady, good signal.

17:14 WW8II-BRUCE: AB4AM start 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 min 0, 0, 0, 0, EOT 0

17:14 W4DEX-DEX: AB4AM CW not heard. Suspect he got sidetracked

17:16 KG0VL-JEFF: AB4AM: no signal detected

17:15 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL start det-5db, 419copy 5db, 5db, 4db 1 min 14db copy call 529 17db, 20db, 27db, copy call 559 EOT 22db

17:16 W4DEX-DEX: KG0VL CW 549, minor QSB

17:16 WA4LDU-JOE: KG0VL cw no copy - fair trace in Spectran

17:17 KG0VL-JEFF: I heard CW during the final 20 seconds of my own transmission. Was fairly strong

17:18 W4DEX-DEX: WW8II CW 559 peak, fades to 439

17:18 WA4LDU-JOE: WW8II cw no copy - good trace in Spectran

17:19 KG0VL-JEFF: WW8II 549 with QSB, good signal. Peaked >40db above the noise.

17:21 AB4AM-ROB: No signals detected here

Received at W4DEX:

Received at KGØVL:

SSB Reports:

17:00 KG0VL-JEFF: Hearing W4DEX on SSB very weak

17:02 W4DEX-DEX: WA4LDU SSB 55 QSB

17:03 W4DEX-DEX: K4CSO SSB 56 QSB

17:04 KG0VL-JEFF: Hearing a strange swirling sound on SSB

17:04 WA4LDU-JOE: W4DEX SSB S7 with QSB

17:09 W4DEX-DEX: K4CSO and WA4LDU SSB way down now

17:25 WW8II-BRUCE: Thre was a C7.72 Peak @ 1704ut just for us

17:26 W4DEX-DEX: WA4LDU and K4CSO SSB dropped dramatically about that time

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