GW4VXE's Station Diary

Bit of Es into Europe this afternoon when we got back from our Welsh lesson and then noticed G0GGG working (I think) K6ZZ. That caught my attention and I spun the beam around to North America. As it turned out K6ZZ was in the EM grid (EM78?). I didn't see much from him but W9OO was around, but didn't hear me. I did work Tim WW1L though which was good. Nice to see the band opening up to the west. I should probably leave the beam over there now.

In the evening there was some decent Es around to the south - nice to see old 6M CW compatriot, CT4KQ coming through on FT8. It'll be nice to work him again after all this time - I guess we first worked in the late 1980s on 6m CW.

Around 1900z I was monitoring on the vertical on 6m and noticed WW2DX coming through strongly! Sadly he could only hear me at -20 despite being +16 - so the QSO barely made it - but interesting to see the band open again anyway.