[SADXA] 40M SN

[Richard Jones]

Those of you listening to 40 this afternoon should have checked the higher
bands.  I turned on the rig about 3 local to 10 meters.  In an an hour I
worked 9 different countries (no new ones, unfortunately)  When the band
started fading I dropped down to 12 but it promptly closed.  15 was still
on but the grayline was favoring Japan, called a couple of VK's but no
luck.  Did work an Asiatic Russian I hadn't worked before, then got the
supper call.  Friday I was checking my gear before going out to Picacho
Peak and got a memo that Gridtracker has a new update.   Gridtracker
doesn't store (at least where I knew to look) so I couldn't use Gridtracker
and QRZ wasn't communicating nicely with JT8.  Got Gridtracker
reformatted this afternoon and it was neat to watch the Grayline progress
over the course of the next hour.  I can count on propagation into SA
every afternoon.  Worked a new to me  Uruguay station, saw 2 new Argentina
stations and based on their grid squares  there were 3  Brazilians who
could have worked each other on 2 meters  I was going to print the last
page on my QRZ log to show all the different flags but I don't have a
screen capture app that will work.  Print Screen did print my last 100
contacts in the log---all in December;  it doesn't include my 25 or so
contacts yesterday out at Picacho Peak.  Hope I can find them somewhere.

On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 2:08 PM Lawrence Godek <lawrenceg94 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I quit listening to 40M WSPR at 2 pm.  Hope that was enuff for today.
> Nothing really strange, DX wise seen.  Southern Ohio was far east as i
> heard with lots of west coast stations intermingled.  also lots of short
> haul stuff from DM42, DM34, DM04 etc.
>
> 10M however up till 2030: OZ0, LA, SM on FT8.  Couldn't get back to them
> as they worked out as far as 5 land.  Worked one VE2 with the beam
> pointed to 355 deg and he was a +7.  KL7TC showed up on the band as well
> with a nice strong signal.
>
> I use my laptop and KX3 on 40M and the K3 along with the 10M beam on 10
> and 12M.  We'll listen again tomorrow.
>
> Larry W0OGH
>
>
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