Clearly my priorities lie elsewhere because I realized thai morning that I hadn't made any attempt to send a note to the reflector about CQWW SSB. Couple of tweaks to this contest:

1. Our panhandle members as far west as the Panama City area are within the larger CQ club circle for this contest, so I hope to see good scores from NF4A and K4SBZ and others in that neck of the woods. Unfortunately we don't have a circle large enough to take in Pensacola and N4OX in the far western panhandle, but we'll be thinking of Jay fondly and hope to hear him in the pileups this weekend.

2. The flux is up to 113 as of this morning, and the X1-class flare that came off the sun yesterday is projected to affect propagation on Sunday-only, so make hay on Saturday as much as possible. I'm told that 10m and 12m have been very good long path into Asia on FT8 in recent mornings; hopefully that same propagation holds on 15m and 10m on SSB.

3. Bonus tweak - after an edition of CQWW last year that had almost no DXPeditions, Caribbean DXPeditions are back on this weekend, with a number of folks on from that part of the world.

FCG Activity (and other activity of interest) by memory. Corrections and additions welcome

PJ4K - M/2? K1XX, W1MD, N6KT, others?

J68HZ - M/S W0CN + others

PJ2T - M/? I've heard PJ2/KL2A on several times on CW this week, so I know at least one person is on-site. I'm sure they're planning a Multi-2 or Multi-Multi effort

KP3Z - N6MJ, N4YDU, NP4Z, maybe another? M/S is the rumor

V26B - I've heard N3OC on from the V26B station in a couple of CWTs this week. I'm sure they're planning M/S or M/2 with the usual mixture of FRC and PVRC ops

P40W - W2GD is using the P40L station this weekend

HD8R - a bunch of Italian and Spanish hams, along with a couple of locals, are activating HC8 for the first time in a few years. I worked them on 15m CW and heard them on a number of other bands this week. I wonder if they're at the old HC8N/HC8GR site or if there's a new station going up on the island

AD4ES - M/S + W4SO

N6AR - SOAB(A)HP

K0LUZ - SOAB(A)HP P/T

K1MM - SOSB(A)10m HP @ N4WW

N4BP - SOSB(A)?m HP

NF4A - SOAB(A)HP P/T

N4AO - SOABLP (WC4E)

K4SBZ - SOAB(A)HP

K5KG - SOAB(A)HP P/T

W4LT - SOAB(A)LP P/T Remote

N4UU - SOAB(A)HP P/T

W4WF - SOAB(A)20m HP @ N4WW (Sunday-only as of now...hope the flare doesn't wipe propagation out!)

NN4X - SOAB(A)HP P/T

AA8R - SOAB?P

K8MR - SOABLP at the Condo for the winter

73/OJ,

Chris W4WF

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