[50mhz] Summer 2010 in review

[Rsoifer at aol.com]

This was my first Es season from this QTH (DM41) so I don't really have  
anything to compare it with.  My first Es QSO was May 3, the last July  5.  
May seemed pretty good, but all single-hop stuff.  June was great,  while July 
shut down early.  
 
In all, 128 grids, 43 states and 2 VE provinces, plus XE, FG, FS and  CU2.  
Gary, CU2JT, was in here for nearly 3 hours on June 24.
 
73,
 
Ray W2RS
 
 
In a message dated 7/28/2010 2:42:11 P.M. GMT Standard Time,  
aa5jg at yahoo.com writes:

So now  that the 6 meter Es season is about over (I usually end it after 
the peak of  the Perseids) what has it been like in different parts of the 
country?   And how has it compared with other years?  I have been on 6m since 
1992  so have about 19 Es seasons to compare it to.  Some observations from  
Oklahoma are:

1. April and May were far above average.  Probably  the best April/May I 
have seen.  The band was open almost every day  during that the last week of 
April and through May, which is  ususual.

2. June was a little below average.  We had a fantastic  opening on June 
2nd (I worked Costa Rica while running 25 watts mobile) but  then the band 
really took a dip.  There was a great opening for the June  VHF contest, and I 
broke my previous 6 meter grid total for that  contest.  The weekend after 
the contest saw our only really good opening  to EU on that Sunday AM-I 
worked Sweden and Germany, not usually countries you  think of working on 6m.  
Other than that, June did not see as many  openings as usual-this is the month 
that the band is usually open every  day.

3. July was far below average.  Probably the worst July I  have ever seen 
on 6m.  The 2nd and 3rd had very nice openings-I worked  Spain for a new 
country on the 3rd-but that was about it for the month.   The rest of the 
openings were pretty spotty and short lived. Usually the first  10 days or so of 
July are really hopping, but not this year. There was a nice  opening 
Saturday night during the July CQVHF contest, but it was pretty short  lived as 
well. 

I am not expecting much the rest of July and into  August as those are 
usually slowing down times on 6m-you get some short  openings but nothing like 
June and early July usually are.  It will be  interesting to see what the 
Perseids are like.

One other interesting  observation is that we didn't get any openings to 
speak of into the Carribean  Sea. That is very rare here.  Usually we have 
several openings to the  Islands but never heard them here.  Got openings to 
Costa Rica twice but  that was about it for southern openings.

June was probably the best I  have seen it for 2 meters, though.  Two long 
2 hour Es openings, but  another, short, limited Es opening results in 5 new 
grids on 2m, putting me at  158 grids worked.

73s John AA5JG
Grid EM04-Lawton,  OK




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