24MHz Improves

The 12m band has not been very frequently open in the past few weeks. The last QSO I had before yesterday on 12m was back in February, when 12m was opening more reliably.

Yesterday, there were good openings to Brazil and southern Europe, though herd mentality means there weren't so many stations to work.

This afternoon, I was very happy to work transatlantic, and deep into the heart of Texas, when KI5BLU appeared at very good signal strength here.  Remarkably, the KI5 was using a simple fan dipole.  No other US stations picked up on the propagation.