GW4VXE's Station Diary

Seeing the K had dropped to 2 first thing (it's 1 now), I wondered if we'd see some Es. Certainly this morning saw some quite intense Es on 6m including some quite short distances, so presumably the MUF went quite high as I was seeing stations as close as IN97 at one point. Mostly Spanish and a few French stations on 6m with CN8NS who's becoming quite a regular.

13z CWT was pretty poor to North America - couldn't work John VE3EJ! I listened for Jim K6AR, but he was obscured by loud EU signals, as was VK6T. Nice to say hello and congratulations to Doug KR2Q who was inducted into the CQ Contest Hall of Fame at Dayton last weekend.

Late afternoon I could see one or two stations working California on 6m. Nothing here. Others were working Iceland, but the TFs weren't heard here which was interesting.

19z was average to the west coast on 15m - nice to catch Jim K6AR and a couple of others. Harder going to the east coast, although VE3EJ was easy to work but AA3B and K3WW weren't huge signals. 20m was noisy and North Americans fairly weak.