Even that everybody thought that Es will take a rest on May 29/30 it came back with a nice and strong opening today. 50 MHz was almost closed in the morning and the early afternoon when suddenly after 1300 UT MUF was rising extraordinary fast in the Black Sea area. Scatter point was very huge in times and MUF was reaching almost 170 MHz.
2nd Es opening for me in this season. Worked 2 new #. Heard also UR5MGW from KN58QO vy shortly, also new # for me but didnt catch them :-( On FM channels a lot of UA stns which speaks only russian language and that was the problem to work with them. Lets see what will be happen in coming days, season starts pretty well! GL & CU via Es! 73 de 9A4EW,Hrvoje
DD0VF, Steffen - JO60UX
Rig:
4x8el (6m up) 100W / 350W(digi) / 500W 14m 7/8 coax, for QTF east: 1x7el 4m up 30m aircom+
good idea to leave the lateshift earlier(not easy), been working with 100W, maybe I shall use the amp next times...
hrd: RN6BL, RN6BN, RX6APY, RA6AL and RA6DA
73 and spasiba ;-)
15;57 UU4J?? in Russian on 145.500 FM hrd
16:00 TA7OM SSB hrd again
16:09 TA7OM SSB hrd again
Comment:
Very spotty up here, obviously to far away from the reflection zone. TA7OM was the only station audible for about 4 minutes around QSO time at low signal strength (max. 55), then back again at 16:00 at S9 level for 2 minutes and again almost 10 minutes later for a minute or so. Nothing else heard.
Many thanks to DD3SP for the alert call by GSM as we were outside to prepare a small barbecue. So DL2BZE who was visiting was lucky to work a new DXCC, square and ODX on 2 m, too. ;-))
hrd: UA6MA, RV6YY, RA6DA, UA4FB? (QRM'd by DL; The UA4 was calling me twice and always jammed by a local DL calling endless "Tze Kju Di-eggs" on his QRG...);
16.25 QRT bcz heavy T-storm;
I was on the very western edge of this opening which was good for 4L again but no ones there anymore. Must QRT and take tower down due to severe T-storm.
But:
RA6DA and RN6BL both at the same time on 144.300 making chaos in central EU. Please try other QRG ending in 2, 3, 7 or 8 next time. You can be sure we will find you there and it will improve your number of contacts too.
73 and see you in Es tomorrow.
Peter http://dl3jin.de/logbuch.htm
15:45 RA3AAB SSB 144.312 only heard for 10 sec
15:45 UAXGM SSB 144.312 KO85GC 1545km 55/55
Comment:
15:56 heard 9A4AW and HA6....for the first time this year
It was Es for only 3 min in KN23UC :(. I was glad to listen how YO9HP works so many EU and other station. But Again we were on the edge of cloud. Maybe next time I hope. 73 from LZ2RBB - Rosen.
2 subsequent blocks of Es, very strong signals, big fun.
OE1SOW, Othmar - JN88FF
Rig:
6m: 100W 5el - 2m: IC-756 Pro II + DB6NT-Transverter 400W 4x13el SP-2000 or IC-821 130W 13-El. Yagi SP-2000
Log:
14:24 UTC RZ6BU KN84PV 1629 km
14:26 UTC RA6AS KN93VN 1870 km
14:30 UTC RV6YY LN04AO 1884 km new # 280
14:37 UTC RX6BN KN93VP 1866 km
15:51 UTC RA6DA KN96SA 1756 km
15:56 UTC RK6LXN KN97LE 1681 km
16:01 UTC UA6MA KN97VE 1742 km
16:04 UTC RX6AH KN95MA 1754 km
Comment:
Nice but short opening, I was alarmed by a RN6-station on a local repeater and an OIRT-band full with russian BC-stations.
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1 hour break for coffee and then the next opening, that's what I like, hi...
What a nice Es! Just the shame with missing 4L on FM. Also KN94 wasn't active so it's still wanted for me :-) MP3 files you can listen at:
ES Audio HERE
73! Matej, OK1TEH
