[ADXA] 6 m openings in the "distant past"... November favored me more, than June

Sun Jun 7 12:21:23 EDT 2020

Good job as usual Rick on the grids in JA land. My biggest openings on 6m to JA and a bit less to EU was November 1989.. The JAs came in during the 2250-0030Z, big pileup in the 2300Z range. Worked about 17 new grids in JA and 16 in Europe that November. 
   No new grids to EU and north AF until November 2001. A few to EU and AF in June 2010 and July 2011. Please note that only two of my new VUCC grids to JA/Asia area occurred in June (QM06 on June 23, 2010 on a short opening and QN03, June 19, 2013)), but several to EU did hit me in May and June. Last new ones to EU were in July 2014 and June 21, 2015.
   So to work SO many in June to JA never happened to me and not that big a number to EU either. Goes to show you that you must monitor, listen, look at the K crossings, SSN and get a general feeling about 6m “happenings”. If everyone is listening only, openings CAN be missed. So CALL CQ once in a while on a supposedly quit “? propagation” timeframe.
   Great going to UR and ZN, being there and getting it done, especially in June, when MY biggest openings were in November, late 1989. I can not speak for JT8 happening, sorry! 😊 
San   ( sorry to say, no longer on VHF on any band )

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From: Rick Roderick - K5UR - aol address via ADXA
Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2020 10:33 AM
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Subject: Re: [ADXA] Massive JA Opening on 6 Meters

It’s amazing how consistent year to year some of the 6 meter openings can be, almost to the day, to Europe. Not as much so for JA, but somewhat, especially the June 4-6 timeframe. Watch June 20-21 for Europe.

One of the biggest openings I had to JA was 14 years ago. I started working JA’s at 2355 on June 5 and stopped 1 hour 28 minutes later at 0123, June 6. I worked 161 JA’s, close to two per minute for an hour and half, all on CW. I didn’t look back past 15 years but seems I recall another opening when I worked 180+ JA’s. That may have been back in the 80-90’s but I couldn’t find the logs to check as they are in the attic or out in the shop.

For those that worked the recent JA opening, please let me know if you worked anyone in these four grids:

QN04
QN05
PM62
PN92

Those are the last grids I need in JA and would like to know calls signs to look out for.

73,
Rick – K5UR

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To: EJ <ejj at suddenlink.net>
Cc: 'adxa' <ADXA at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sun, Jun 7, 2020 7:01 am
Subject: Re: [ADXA] Massive JA Opening on 6 Meters
I never heard any on CW/SSB here either I was monitoring) but as Pat 
notes most of the signal levels were in the -15 dB range.

ZN

On 2020-06-04 07:05, EJ wrote:
> Thanks Pat!  I need to download it.  I listened on CW as well.  Not
> much activity and signals quite weak.  I bet your XYL thinks you have
> "selective" hearing"  Hi!
> 
> EJ
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: patw5vy at gmail.com [mailto:patw5vy at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 11:42 PM
> To: 'EJ' <ejj at suddenlink.net>; 'Crownhaven' <crownhaven at bellsouth.net>
> Cc: 'adxa' <ADXA at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: RE: [ADXA] Massive JA Opening on 6 Meters
> 
> EJ,
> I believe I read that in Release 2.2.0 GA, the WSJT-X team has added
> additional default dial frequency presets for FT8 in the "Frequency"
> tab for the three busiest bands. 40/30/20??  I have so many added
> freqs for DXpedition Fox/Hound in my config I can't tell where the new
> defaults are!  I checked 50.323 a couple of times today and heard a
> couple of US stations calling CQ DX but no JAs on the "DX" FT8
> frequency.  I've heard a few EU stations calling on 50.323 but the
> bulk of activity is on .313.  I use a couple of "slices" on my Flex to
> watch FT8 and SSB/CW on 6M.  I only have one antenna so I can't do
> single band SO2R like Big Dog Joel.  There was a lot of CW activity
> today but I didn't hear any DX on CW.  Most of the JA's were in the
> -10 to -20db/AWGN range ...not quite strong enough for CW unless you
> have bionic ears.  I've reached the stage where I'm blissfully unaware
> of annoying high pitched sounds...I can't hear them!  I'm not sure my
> XYL believes me?
> 
> 73,
> Pat, W5VY
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On
> Behalf Of EJ
> Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 10:50 PM
> To: 'Crownhaven' <crownhaven at bellsouth.net>
> Cc: 'adxa' <ADXA at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [ADXA] Massive JA Opening on 6 Meters
> 
> I agree with some of the suggestions to spread it out a bit.  They may
> have been in there but no way to work them with the JA free for all
> 
> EJ
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Crownhaven <crownhaven at bellsouth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 10:16 PM
> To: ejj at suddenlink.net
> Cc: w5zn at w5zn.org; adxa <ADXA at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [ADXA] Massive JA Opening on 6 Meters
> 
> Wore me out, was looking for HL, BY, BV
> 
> Steve, QQ
> 
>> On Jun 3, 2020, at 8:55 PM, ejj at suddenlink.net wrote:
>> 
>> saw you working the pile.  I worked a few but was trying to hear the
>> HL.  No luck here with HL
>> 
>> EJ
>> 
>> 
>> ---- w5zn at w5zn.org wrote:
>>> Wow - what an opening to JA on 6 meters. It has been several years
>>> since I have seen a 6 meter JA opening that good. I worked 85 JA's.
>>> There was an HL and a BV on but I did not copy them here.
>>> 
>>> Also saw some ADXA folks in the pile, W5KI, K5FUV, N5ZM, W5VY and
>>> maybe others.
>>> 
>>> Very nice.
>>> 
>>> 73 Joel W5ZN
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