[ADXA] Cuirous about propagation last night into this morning

[w5zn at w5zn.org]

Scott - tnx for this post.

I was on 40 meter CW last night buttoning up a near mint Drake 2C 
receiver I'm selling and wasn't on 20, but I can tell you that Chak, 
JT1CO has a very impressive station that will burst through when others 
won't.

Here's a bit of trivia regarding W5ZG. John's Novice call was WN5HRI and 
he was my very first contact as a licensed radio amateur. In later years 
after we "reacquainted" with our new W5Z calls he still had in his files 
my Novice QSL card I sent him and he insisted I accept it as a gift from 
him, which I gladly did! I have it secured in my safe along with my old 
Novice license.

John and I have been in big hairy CW pileups before, duking it out when 
the DX station sends W5Z?? Of course, the difference between an "N" and 
a "G" on CW is easily confused under adverse conditions.

73 Joel W5ZN

On 2021-09-09 13:39, Scott Branyan wrote:

> JT1CO had a prolonged window on FT8 20m with strong signals into 5 
> country last night, through the night, and into this morning. I picked 
> him up on a new band last night. Also saw a few spots for 9M2 and A35, 
> but never heard them. SFI was 100 with a nil K index. Curious why JT 
> had such good opportunity into the area with nothing else going on. 
> Africa stations (except for 5T) have been very difficult the past 
> couple of days but I did pick up FM4 and ZS on 5 watts over the weekend 
> and two Greek stations on 5W Tuesday.
> 
> Watched W5ZG a little while ago trying to work ZC4GR on 15m. I am 
> hoping for an opening later this afternoon if ZC stays on the air.
> 
> Thanks for any observations or input.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Scott
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