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2023
THE FOCUS OF THIS PAGE IS 50MHz DX
Jan
9th Some
nice EU Es around - spent a few minutes only to work a few with my
hexbeam at home and 50
24th Jan 2023 18,646km opening on 50 MHz between Germany and New Zealand
AND AGAIN THIS YEAR!!!
Feb
Mar
Apr
May - as the Es season kicks
in I will not be reporting fully here - just highlights
11th - probably the best visual Aurora I've ever seen from anywhere in
the UK - and that was from down here in SE Crnwall!
50MHz Au and AuEs were not too shabby either!
13th Just back from a weekend away and a
call from Gary M0CTP at 2016z alerted me to the fact that Andy 5Z4VJ was
into the UK !!
I jumped ion the truck and drove up to my hilltop shack. Andy was there
and stable but not hearing me:-( After fading to noise he came back and
we finally worked at 21:00z. TNX Andy (and Gary) for DXCC # 269 on
50MHz! June - I will not be reporting
fully for June - too much info! - just highlights
 8th
wow - what a day - a good early afternoon opening to the Caribbean and N
America and then the Protons hit the fan!
3B8 very loud off the back of the beam and a message
was sent to Marek FT4GL on Glorioso.
He came to the band on FT8 and suddenly he had
thousands of callers from all over Europe. It took a while but I finally
got through! Thanks Marek for an ATNO and DXCC # 270 on 50MHz.
The image below shows 4 strong FT8 streams from FT4GL
July August
  September
Something of note on 6m:
16th Woohoo - just got back from Beacon site to see ZD9GJ on my screen.
Waited forever for my amp to warm up called him(and called him!) And
eventually a result!
17th Just managed to work Lance on 50MHz Q65 EME on his
first viable moonrise. This is the one I wanted. The TEP QSO was an
unexpected bonus. Thank you soooo much Mr Moonbounce Lance Collister.
October
3rd On the back of the re4cent X7.1 flare a
nice surprise this morning - DU6/PE1NSG was into W Europe from around
08:00z. I was late to the shack but still worked him just before 09:00z
THEN AT 12:15Z THE STRONGEST FLARE YET: Sunspot AR3842 exploded again
today, producing the strongest solar flare of Solar Cycle 25 so far. The
X9-category blast hurled a CME directly toward Earth. This makes two
CMEs now en route to our planet. The forecast calls for auroras this
weekend. Full story @ Spaceweather.com. Who knows what today's X9 flare
will bring (probably next week as I'm on vacation in S France.)
 17th Finally managed to work CE8EIO in PUNTA ARENAS CHILE on 50MHz for
Field # 144 Square # 1443 and todays ODX of 13064km
151615 -10 0.1 1690 ~ G8BCG CE8EIO RR73
18th Decided to have a play on 8m again.
Worked Marc VK8MS:
113845
-13 1.3 1429 ~ G8BCG VK8MS RR73
Then 115430 -12 0.1 1412 ~ G8BCG VK8VTX RR73
26th The first REAL F2 on 50MHz 59+ multiple VK6s on FT8, 59+ SSB QSO
with Eddie XV9T, 599 CW QSO with XU9AKU then Alt F2 - gone:-)
https://www.facebook.com/634334747/videos/1573705826912763/
27th Not QRV VK2 worked from UK
28th Good F2 Indian Ocean morning scatter opening 3 hours many strong JA
and VK6 + VU, 4S7, YB.
Mid afternoon F2 opening to HC very lous across EU for about 1 hour
mainly working NA.
November
Well, Cycle 25 F2 propagation has certainly kicked in and with it a
whole new world of Russian stations on 50MHz! Daily morning F2 to Asia
Pacific and afternoon to North and Central America.
2nd Nov - a HUGE F2 afternoon opening to N America lasting over 6 hours.
My big amp was down but I spent a couple of hours at the beginning and
end of the opening and had 24 SSB and around 120 FT8/FT4 contacts. My S
meter was stuck over S9 most of the time.
5th Nov Another amazing day of F2 with Pacific, Australasia, India and N
America in at the same time. Around 09:00z I worked a bunch of VK5s and
VK3s including my old mate VK3ZAZ (aka VK3OT /VK3OTR) who I last worked
as H44PT when I lived and worked in Solomon Islands 1978/85.
VK3ZAZ was my ODX for the day at 17025km.
 12th
Not so much to the East today but huge strong and long NA all modes and
a nice opening to ET3 Ethiopia. It's nice to be spotted BY the DX:-)
December
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