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Just after the weekend some improvement

Monday  28 quite good with 12 VK's  active.   

28MHz 


Outside EU/USA/VK  the WSPR world is very empty
  2 Africa  1 South America  4  Asia..



Yes ... just after the weekend Monday morning the expected  improvement of propagation is there.
But with WSPR  there is no difference to Saturday or  Monday morning  this radio mode tricks out the god of propagation...
I remember the Magic band also came alive  after the weekend or short before..  I bit logic because the weekend still is shorter   helas.
5/7 x100%  more chance that anything interesting happens during the work week.

160m is very poor.  Last 24 hours   no EU report >1000km!
 T30RH  will be extreme difficult to catch at 160 for me. (us here)
The days get longer  for the first time i came home in daylight. 


.. just when i wrote this i saw VK6ZT reporting G F and me too..

 2011-03-07 22:04  PA0O  1.838044  -22  0  JO33hg  5  VK6ZT  OF78sq  13966

so there is more live on 160 then i thought
Possibly the grey line to VK our Sunset is good on 160 too but only VK6ZT is there to listen !



Strange enough 80m is very good in the evening 17-20 UTC grey line to VK 
tonite again  VK7DIK  2-way 

VK7DIK  QE28sf  16731

  and heard by 

 VK4ZE  QG62nl  16051 
 

Comments

PE4BAS, Bas said…
Hallo Jaap,zag de MUF stijgen vandaag naar 27,5 MHz. Maar er viel dus al wel wat te beleven op 28 MHz. 73, Bas
March 7, 2011 at 9:47 PM
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