Austria

And yet another new country worked. Austria.3 sunspots and I work 3 new ones in one day HAHAHA

Seychelles

Another new one for me, 2 in one day and its only the beginning of the new solar cycle.

Cyprus

So for the 2 other people not glued to their TV’s watching the stupidity. I worked a new country today, Cyprus. I have never worked Austria either, but they could not hear me sadly. I am hoping 20m opens up to the EU tonight and I get another shot at working them. Long path using the vertical is not easy, but I was being hear well all over the EU, short path is usually a better option for me. Lets hope and see.

Mongolia

I worked a new country today on 15m. Mongolia.

Last Night On 15m

As you can see by the WSJT waterfall, 15m was going bonkers. Its great to see so much action on there.

The band was open all day and in the evening time, opened into the EU. Cant say I did all that well but I managed to make one contact into the EU and it is my first contact for the new solar cycle, it was with a station in Poland. You can see on the map i was not really being heard all that much in the EU. Probably not quite the sunspot numbers I need for my simple vertical antenna to be reliable enough. But seeing its still only early doors on the new cycle, things are looking promising. I did also spend 15m calling cq on CW, self spotted on the cluster and all and nothing. It was worth a shot.

15m and The Wall Of Japan

5pm local time and Japan is running hot on 15m. I have not seen this many signals on 15m in god knows how long. I am even working some of them. My plan was to come in here and solder up a filter for the Pi board and here I am making contacts. Japan might be easy DX from Australia, but they are plentiful and that makes it fun.

New Country, St Lucia

This is a turn of events for my blog, I actually did some operating today. In fact it is even worse than that, I turned on the 2m fm rig and put it in scan mode and sat listening to a club net for a good 30mins while i did stuff for work. Shocking I know, but, you know what? It was not all that bad, at least the conversation was not about the weather, medical conditions or tomatoes.

So that got me excited enough to fire up the Icom and do a little FT8. A bit on 20m, a bit on 40m and I managed to work a new one for me on 40m. I did hear this station on 20m and pskreporter said he was hearing me, but never did see a CQ, so im thinking he might have taken a break from it. Anyway, got him on 40m and that is good enough for me.