Hi Scott,

I usually have DXMaps up looking at who is making the contacts and the MUF-Sp-E tab on my next tab.  I switch back-n-forth.  I didn’t see our QSO reported, but I noticed a complete lack of MUF squares/clouds or whatever you call them in that direction.  Didn’t see any over or near Japan either. 

What was weird is the SFI is climbing at the time, but the K index was/is all over the place.  However I think the SFI needs to be around 180 to support real F layer on 6m? 

My log does record those numbers and they are:

SFI 150

A 7

K 3

73 de w5jay/jay..

From: Scott Branyan <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 3:33 PM
To: 'jayw5jay' <[email protected]>; 'Rory Bowers' <[email protected]>
Cc: 'ADXA' <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [ADXA] 6m opening or lack thereof

It would be interesting to know if DXMaps showed your contact with JA AFTER you worked him :-).

You were the sporadic E prop to that part of the world at that time!

73,

Scott/W5AAJ

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jayw5jay
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 1:11 PM
To: Rory Bowers
Cc: ADXA
Subject: Re: [ADXA] 6m opening or lack thereof

Understand but someone, somewhere should know the answer.

73 jay

Sent from my Galaxy

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From: Rory Bowers <[email protected]>

Date: 7/12/22 9:26 AM (GMT-06:00)

To: Jay Bromley <[email protected]>

Cc: ADXA <[email protected]>

Subject: Re: [ADXA] 6m opening or lack thereof

You should know the answer to this one Jay!  That is why we all call it "The Magic Band"!

Nice contact Jay :-)

Rory - K5CKS

On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 7:40 PM Jay Bromley <[email protected]> wrote:

So I was working N7PHY in DN76 and right after that QSO I had JL8GFB call me.  We completed the QSO!  The band was pretty much dead seeing only N7PHY and looking on DXMaps under the MUF Sp—E tab there just isn’t a lot of anything going on right now much less towards the NW and JA!  So how in the world did the JA’s signal get here?

I guess that why they call it the Magic Band!  73 de w5jay/jay..

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