[UK-CONTEST] WPX-view from west coast

[Phil VK4BAA]

I had a casual dabble in WPX - but only on 10m from here in VK4.

Not a huge number of JAs around (I could hear them on 15m though) and a nasty storm was overhead until 3pm or so on the Saturday. 10m had a bit of an opening to UA0 and EU for a while - but not much at all.

I managed to bag a few EU on 10m on the Sunday but not in droves for sure. Fishermen on boats from Tailand tend to occupy the lower part of 10m on AM/FM/SSB/anything and some signals were lost due to this.

Noise on the band was awful in general. Such is life....

73,

Phil
VK4BAA / VK4KW


---- David Honey <david at honeyfamily.org.uk> wrote: 
> There was a significant magnetic storm over the weekend with the K 
> index up to 5 and Bz pointing very south. I wasn't in WPX, but there 
> was no DX with JA on either 20m or 17m on Saturday and I concentrated 
> more on 6m where there were some good openings east and west.
> 
> David.
> 
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