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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
 

May be an image of text that says "DT Freg Tx 112032 112101 112138 Message Ix Tx 2398 2398 2398 -16 ZD9GJ G8BCG ZD9GJ G8BCG -16 ZD9GJ G8BCG -16 RxFredis 112208 Ix 2398 ZD9GJ G8BCG RR73 112215 231-1.3 737 G8BCG ZD9GJ R-07 112238 Ix 2398~ ZD9GJ G8BCG RR73 112245 1-22-1.3 -22 -113 739~ G8BCG ZD9G3173 112308 Tx 2398 CQ G8BCG 1070 Tristan da Cunha Tristan da Cunha Tristan da Cunha FT4 л TX00/30 lAutosea AИca Tx 2398 Hz Report-16 -16"May be an image of floor plan and textSeptember
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.

VK3ZAZ was my ODX for the day at 17025km.


December
 

 

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