Sunspots? These are not welcome. Maybe someone ordered them for the ARRL
10 meter contest. They appear to have had an instant effect on the polar
paths.
However, last night - E74AW was active and had a monster pileup. I am sure
many people were hearing him well and didn't end up working him. However,
I believe that there will be a lot of activity during the next week from
there - so hopefully many more QSOs will take place.
Two of the QSOs I know Dodo made were with W7LR and myself. These QSOs
were not easy - and if you are not bandwidth challenged and have about
six minutes, you can listen to my QSO:
http://www.kkn.net/~tree/160/E74AW_QSO_12-12-2008.mp3
This QSO was made SPLIT - up about 2 khz - at 0445 UTC.
E74AW's signal was coming in skew path - perhaps around 90 degrees.
Additionally, I was forwarded another sound file of VY2ZM working some
JAs via long path recently:
http://www.kkn.net/~tree/160/VY2ZMLongpath2008Nov23-2100UTCatJA8ISU.mp3
The CQs in the middle are really amazing.
73 Tree N6TR
Boring, OR
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