Category Archives: Propagation

The Meteor Shower Gemenids 2019

Strong shower and many MS initials in this year! Worked totally 53 QSO, 19 DXCC, 41 grid squares. Best ODX 2018 km with F1NZC. Interesting that this time were many MSK144  mode participants referring to the last year 2018.  I … Continue reading

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Starting EME on 23 cm.

My current setup: – Transceiver FT-736– DB6NT SSPA 250W (in the shack),-12 m of 7/8″ + 2m of 1/2″ coaxial TX line – 15 m of Flex-2000 coaxial RX line,– G4DDK LNA – VE4MA feed – 3 m diameter solid … Continue reading

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Tropo on November 6, 2018

144 MHz. 41 QSO, 30 Grid squares, 3 Grid fields, 11 countries. Best ODX – UT8AL

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September tropo

Strong and lasting tropo on the last week of September. September 26 below:    Till now 48 QSO on 144 and 432 MHz, 30 grid squares and 8 DXCC September 27 below:       Summary for 27 of September: … Continue reading

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Aurora, 20th of January

I found Aurora around 13:30 UTC. Antenna QTF was 40-60 degrees. Completed  first QSO on 2M with UA3XAC and than checked 70 cm band. There were YL2FZ and UA1ANA. Some stations on 6M and nobody on 4M, but very strong … Continue reading

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Gemenids – 2015

The Geminids are considered to be one of the more spectacular meteor shower during a year, with the possibility of sighting around 120 meteors per hour at its peak. At this year, maximum of shower was predicted between 13 -14th … Continue reading

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Tropo on 31st of October

Only 1,5 operation hours to enjoy of this nice tropo opening. 14 QSO and 6 new initial call signs. Not so dusty!

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Tropo on 24.10.2015

Probably, it was a good duct to the Central Europe on the afternoon, 24th of October. But I was busy and catch only the final…. ————————————————————————————— DATE     TIME CALLSIGN      LOCATOR TX    RX    BAND  MODE        QRB ————————————————————————————— 24/10/2015 … Continue reading

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Aurora 7th of October

Good Aurora, but I have  not had enough time to use all opening. As usually, tried to get a new initials. And it was successful:  26 QSO and 16 new callsigns were added into logbook. The best QRB was 1266 … Continue reading

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Meteor shower Perseids 2015

Annual and one of the most popular meteor showers, the Perseids. According to IMO,  the maximum in 2015 is expected to occur on August 13, most likely around 06h30m to 09h00m UT, with ZHR = 100 hr-1. In my opinion, … Continue reading

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