[ADXA] Cuirous about propagation last night into this morning

[w5zn at w5zn.org]

Oh yea, one other bit of trivia about John and myself.....we both ran 
the exact same Novice rigs - Heathkit DX-60/HR10

ZN

On 2021-09-09 14:02, w5zn at w5zn.org wrote:

> 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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