12m Yesterday,.

Well, forget the old addage that solar minimum means you need not bother with the higher bands.

This is the plot of all stations heard hear at 24MHz yesterday, most of which, other than the Indonesian spot, I also worked on FT8.

24 hour reception (and, for the most part, 2-way QSOs) at 12m here yesterday.

The strength of signals from the Caribbean and Latin America was nothing short of astounding, easily of a level able to support low power SSB, though I didn't think to check!

J68HZ, blasting out of the waterfall at 12m!

For example, look at J68HZ, at 6638km, which was hitting an astounding +17dB here at around 21:30UT, but was up at that level for perhaps an hour either side.  Not until 01:38UT did the last signals from the Dominican Republic stop coming in here.  QSOs with the US were also made, but the path there was much weaker and intermittent.

Even out at 10642km, signals both ways with CE1OEB were up at +5dB at 21:43UT.

By this morning, 11954km away, YB0DJ, who I have not heard from in a while, came in here at 09:04UT at -10dB.

All rather exciting!