[OKDXA] CQWPX propagation

[Doug Snowden]

John - I also noted propagation changes.  On Friday night very late 20M 
was open to all over Europe, especially Northern Europe/Russia. It is 
such a pleasure to work 20M compared to the usual noisy 40M.


Doug N4IJ


On 6/3/2017 6:57 AM, Perry Jenkins via OKDXA wrote:
> I worked the contest /p running 5 watts using a KX3 and a very low 40M OCFD. I only made 100Qs
>
> I made 78 US, 11 Canada, and 11 DX. I made 1 QSO on 10 M, 20 on 15M, 59 on 20M, and 20 on 40M. I did not operate a whole lot but some on each day Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I was surprised I made any DX with my set up. The OCFD was only up about 15 feet.
>
> Perry N5PJ
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jun 2, 2017, at 22:31, John Geiger <af5cc2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Did anyone catch some of the interesting propagation in the CQWPX contest
>> last weekend.  On Saturday night, around 10:00 local, 15m opened to
>> Indonesia, which was very surprising.  Australia and New Zealand were also
>> coming in quite loud.  I just didn't expect to catch YB at that time on
>> night on 15m.  I wonder if the solar storm had something to do with it as
>> the transpolar path into Russia and Kazakhastan, which was good on Friday,
>> seemed non-existent on 20m Saturday night.
>>
>> 73 John AF5CC
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