[Lowfer] WSPR on 630 meters tonight

[John Langridge]

>Started off this evening with XIQ in the 2328 UTC timeslot, then XXM showed 
up later in the 0030 time slot.  Good clean late afternoon conditions had 
XIQ around -4 or -5 dn SNRr and XXM at +5.  As usual, XXM was around S4, 
while XIQ was likely around S1.  Noise was only in the S1 range as well, 
with excursions to about S2 at times, in a 250 Hz bandwidth.  XIQ was clean 
enough to have worked solidly at QRSS1, if any of us had that available, and 
was generally detectable by ear as well.


JD,

once again, thanks so much for your detailed report.  I gave a redux of the evening from my perspective on 600mrg so I won't belabor that here again but last night really was spectacular.  Early on, XJM was reporting me in single digit S/N values which we have not seen this summer as of yet over that distance.  The values were quite stable.  Anything better than -10db S/N is workable with regular ear-copy CW and it stayed in this range for quite some time.  Around 1000z, very near XJM's SR, Eric and I were in front of the radio at the same time and made a quick CW QSO in addition to a JT9 QSO.  The band was wildly unstable, literally -3 or 4 db then -20 all within the span of 15 seconds.  Nights like that are fun.  It's like riding a bull...

I doubt I will be so lucky tonight as we have storms approaching and in the forecast for the next 48 hours.  But the band has been great this summer and no reason to think it wont continue.  Eric and I are making CW QSO's with almost the same frequency that we do in the winter.  In the last week we have made 4 so that exciting.  Hopefully when we dry out this weekend, we can pick this back up.

73 and thanks again to you and everyone who continues to show up each night.  its really been a great summer and I can only see it leading to a great winter!

john XIQ