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6m is alive again in NW-EU

From last Friday until Thursday 6m was dead as a dead Dodo.
The  radio dx excitement had to come from WSPR low bands last week.
Knowing that sometimes VP8ALJ could come on 160 or 80m
And VK5MR report 80m
has been reported in north Finland

And trying to repeat a 70MHz decode by 4X1RF.
Yesterday evening it was such evening when the 6m decodes became stronger
but then WSPR was crashed by Google Chrome
somtimes Chrome freezes the PC  also other browser can do that.
Then WSPR would not run at 4m at the promising moment..

had to kill numerous chrome.exe *32 processes in the taskmanager to get the PC running again.
 Not for the first time.


again 6m open to 4X1RF
 2015-07-17 06:42  G0OQK  50.294508  -20  0  IO91pp  1  4X1RF  KM72ls  3555  112 
 2015-07-17 06:28  PA4MSA  50.294460  -5  -1  JO22ge  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3257  120 
 2015-07-17 07:38  PA4MSA  50.294459  -25  0  JO22ge  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3257  120 
 2015-07-17 06:48  PA4MSA  50.294460  -19  0  JO22ge  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3257  120 
 2015-07-17 07:28  PA4MSA  50.294460  -14  0  JO22ge  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3257  120 
 2015-07-17 06:38  PA4MSA  50.294461  -4  0  JO22ge  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3257  120 
 2015-07-17 07:08  PA4MSA  50.294460  -18  0  JO22ge  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3257  120 
 2015-07-17 06:26  ON7KO  50.294457  -15  0  JO21ce  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3224  118 
 2015-07-17 06:56  ON7KO  50.294456  -19  -1  JO21ce  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3224  118 
 2015-07-17 06:36  ON7KO  50.294457  -9  0  JO21ce  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3224  118 
 2015-07-17 06:44  ON7KO  50.294457  -13  0  JO21ce  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3224  118 
 2015-07-17 06:38  ON7KB  50.294452  -1  -1  JO21ei  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3222  118 
 2015-07-17 06:30  ON7KB  50.294452  +1  -1  JO21ei  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3222  118 
 2015-07-17 06:58  ON7KB  50.294451  -27  -1  JO21ei  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3222  118 
 2015-07-17 06:20  ON7KB  50.294451  -25  -1  JO21ei  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3222  118 
 2015-07-17 06:48  ON7KB  50.294452  -12  -1  JO21ei  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3222  118 
 2015-07-16 20:54  PA0O  50.294471  -9  0  JO33hg  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3201  124 
 2015-07-17 08:02  PA0O  50.294474  -23  0  JO33hg  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3201  124 
 2015-07-17 07:26  PA0O  50.294474  -10  0  JO33hg  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3201  124 
 2015-07-17 07:28  PE1NKP  50.294477  -22  0  JO22tb  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3186  121 
 2015-07-17 06:28  PE1NKP  50.294485  -20  0  JO22tb  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3186  121 
 2015-07-17 07:06  PE1NKP  50.294479  -24  0  JO22tb  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3186  121 
 2015-07-17 06:28  OZ1PIF  50.294570  -25  -1  JO65an  10  4X1RF  KM72ls  3094  135 
 2015-07-17 06:22  OZ7IT  50.294500  -10  0  JO65df  5  4X1RF  KM72ls  3056  135 












Falklands  on 80m  and day before also on 160 in W-EU not here

2015-07-16 20:58  VP8ALJ  3.594100  -20  0  GD18bh  10  OH8ACB  KP24rt  14766  35 
 2015-07-17 01:02  SI9AM  3.594136  -27  0  JP82  0.2  VP8ALJ  GD18bh  14275  230 
 2015-07-16 21:06  VP8ALJ  3.594091  -23  0  GD18bh  10  SA5BKE  JO88bo  13955  38 
 2015-07-16 23:02  VP8ALJ  3.594087  -17  0  GD18bh  10  OZ7IT  JO65df  13526  39 
 2015-07-16 21:26  VP8ALJ  3.594086  -15  0  GD18bh  10  DL8HAF/P  JO53dm  13298  39 
 2015-07-16 22:04  PA0O  3.594188  -27  0  JO33hg  5  VP8ALJ  GD18bh  13119  219 
 2015-07-16 23:02  VP8ALJ  3.594088  -14  0  GD18bh  10  PA0O  JO33hg  13119  38 
 2015-07-16 21:06  VP8ALJ  3.594074  -23  0  GD18bh  10  PC1CP  JO33jd  13116  38 
 2015-07-16 21:26  VP8ALJ  3.594105  -16  -1  GD18bh  10  NL8992  JO32fl  13044  38 
 2015-07-17 00:38  VP8ALJ  3.594085  -21  0  GD18bh  10  PI4THT  JO32kf  13040  39 
 2015-07-16 20:50  VP8ALJ  3.594097  -24  0  GD18bh  10  PA3FNY  JO22nc  12955  38 



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