[AK-VHF] Nice 6 meter opening into Japan today !

[Paul Kiesel]

Congratulations, John. Yes, now is the time of year when sporadic-E propagation picks up and good 50 MHz DX is possible to be had. 

None of us in Washington or British Columbia have yet worked Japan this season. There is an afternoon opening from Japan that guys farther east enjoy, like in W0 and W5. But the signals from Japan have been going right over our heads. 

A couple of days ago, a few of us down here (BC and Washington) managed to work into Finland (a country at a very high latitude) under very weak signal conditions. So, that's a sign that stations in Alaska could work some very long DX in the same fashion.

Keep up the good work!

73, Paul K7CW




________________________________
 From: Edward R Cole <kl7uw at acsalaska.net>
To: John Raynsford <al7jk at yahoo.com>; ak-vhf at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: [AK-VHF] Nice 6 meter opening into Japan today !
 

As it turns out I have been monitoring 50.125 daily since the VHF 
Contest and chose this afternoon to be outside taking down my 
6-element 6m yagi (broked last winter).  Of course I missed the opening!

73, Ed - KL7UW

At 03:55 PM 6/18/2013, John Raynsford wrote:

>Arrived home from work today at 23 utc 18June
>flipped on the 6 mtr cw/ssb station as usual.
>Strong signals 579 JL8GFB worked him at 2322 utc
>with my peanut whistle of a 6 mtr station
>(3 ele yagi & 100w cw ;)
>
>Browsing JL8GFB's www site he mentions KL7KY, Kevin
>on there ...
>http://air.ap.teacup.com/jl8gfb/
>This fellow has one heck of a ham station LoL !
>
>Good DX to all ... Cheers !
>AL7JK, John
>Eagle River, AK
>
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73, Ed - KL7UW
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