12m has been slightly quieter than usual over the past days, but picked up a lot yesterday (12/1/21 - a palindromic date!)
The DX available wasn't spectacular, but there were solid enough contacts into the eastern seaboard US. In fact, the area of reception was extremely narrow, almost certainly due to very localised Es reflections.
The Es itself arose as a result of moderate HSS streams reaching Kp~4 the previous evening.
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| Afternoon 12m transmissions across the Atlantic being heard along an extremely localised Es path. |
At times, the Es allowed extraordinary signal strengths, certainly enough to sustain SSB had anybody tried. At other times, there were moments of very short propagation within the UK.
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| Amazing signals with Yagis at both ends. |
QSOs on 12m continued well into the hours of darkness; my last reception of EA4BAS was at 21:34UT, which was then displaying what appeared to be multiple reflections (use of some unusual FT8 mode is being checked):
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| Situation at time of hearing last EA stations at 24MHz. |
Interesting John. Yes EA4BAS I know him....hi. Worked him several times. His name is not Bas...bnut Miguel. However it seems part of his surname. Anyway, I had a QSO with a MW0 yesterday on 10m. He was peeking 9+10dB. 73, Bas
ReplyDeleteI can never look at any word or callsign with the letters 'bas' in it without thinking PE4BAS by now! It seems the multiple signals were real, and not a product of some spaced-out FT8 mode.
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