19 January 2024

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Noon 10.7cm Radio Flux: 157 sfu K-index 2

17:23 WW8II-BRUCE: Magnetometers @ 1710ut GOES 16, 106nt, GOES 18 103

17:24 WW8II-BRUCE: Solar wind @ 1715ut 418km/s, PHI 112, Density 4.91p/cm3

CW Reports:

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

17:12 WW8II-BRUCE: W4DEX start 16db, 16db, 15db, 14db, 12db copy call 519, 16db, 15db, 14db, EOT copy 519

17:12 K0AWU-BILL: W4DEX -- Nothing heard or detected with SpecLab START det, det, det, det, at 1 MIN 0-det, det, det, det, at END det -- Quite bright trace

17:12 KW4DE-DARRELL: W4DEX cw rst 599 with moderate 12db qsb variations at 20 sec intervals

17:12 K5HFG-DON: W4DEX good trace seen, no tone. entire Tx. noise is pulsing this morning.

17:13 K0AWU-BILL: W4DEX -- START det, det, det, det, at 1 MIN 0-det, det, det, det, at END det -- Quite bright trace

17:13 KG0VL-JEFF: W4DEX: weak CW heard, was able to copy callsign. Peaked 25db above the noise.

17:14 KP2AE-JOE: w4dex 559 at best not much SW poor day for locals

17:13 KW4DE-DARRELL: K5HFG cw no copy today

17:14 W4DEX-DEX: K5HFG CW no signal detected

17:14 WW8II-BRUCE: K5HFG detect real weak tone maybe 2-3db

17:14 KG0VL-JEFF: K5HFG: no CW heard, weak visual trace with QSB

17:15 K0AWU-BILL: K5HFG -- Nothing heard or detected with SpecLab

17:16 WW8II-BRUCE: K0AWU start 20db, 22db, copy call 539, 25db, 1 min 25db copy call 539, 7db, 2db, 7db, EOT 8-12db

17:16 K5HFG-DON: K0AWU no detect

17:16 KW4DE-DARRELL: K0AWU cw no usable copy

17:16 W4DEX-DEX: K0AWU CW not heard, visual peak about 5 dB over noise

17:17 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL start 35db, 35db, copy call 559, 20db, 1 min copy call 559, 27db, copy call 579, 25db, 28db, loud, EOT 35db

17:18 K0AWU-BILL: KG0VL - START -- 15db, 12-22db, 3-15db, 0-21db, at 1 MIN 1-21db, 5-17db, 5-22db, 8-22db at END 23db

WHAT QSB!!

17:20 KG0VL-JEFF: KØAWU: close to 40db peaks above the noise with fast QSB. Signal meter looks like a Richter scale showing 15db dives

17:18 KW4DE-DARRELL: KG0VL cw no audible copy today

17:18 K5HFG-DON: KG0VL Bright trace, no tone entire Tx.

17:18 W4DEX-DEX: KG0VL CW not heard, visual peak about 5 dB over noise. unusually weak

17:19 WA4LDU-JOE: KG0VL cw no copy good trace in Spectran

17:20 KW4DE-DARRELL: WW8II cw 329 audible copy on peaks with fades to noise

17:20 K5HFG-DON: WW8II dright trace, no tone, some deep QSB entire Tx

17:20 W4DEX-DEX: WW8II CW 579, slight bit of QSB

17:20 WA4LDU-JOE: WW8II cw 329 with strong trace in Spectran

17:20 K0AWU-BILL: WW8II START 18db, 22db, 24db, 23db, at 1 MIN 21db, 18db, 5-18db, 3-7db, at END det- 5db WHAT a difference in the last 30sec!!

Received at W4DEX:

Received at KGØVL:

SSB Reports:

17:01 W4DEX-DEX: KP2AE SSB 54

17:03 KG0VL-JEFF: WW8II 53 SSB

17:03 WW8II-BRUCE: NICE QSO with KG0VL SSB 52 copy

17:03 W4DEX-DEX: K4CSO SSB 54, some skywave

17:22 W4DEX-DEX: WA4LDU SSB 52

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