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After the short and last weeks only? opening here Friday afternoon and evening. the band returned to default noise. Only sometimes SV CT beacons where in. Not even  decoded by VK7DIK last night on 80m Crisis! 6m WSPR running all day not a single decode or trace. WSPRnet.org  is offline tonight for unknown reasons again.  The bands are abandoned everyone is camping in France ? Still could not use the Versa tower.  cable's are rolled out to the other end of the barn. The obstructing tree is trimmed. All is prepared  but the top rotor section can not be found to test the cable. The 6m season is going to an end soon  as far as it was ever present .. The only  usable opening to BA4SI   was missed..  XV1X  not heard TJ not heard here J88ARC only the beacon. Just a few interesting DX locations active WSPR 6m   T61AA  4X4 OD5 CN8LI  KP4 WA1. Noone in CT2 CT3 EA8 D4 PJ     most om's prefer QRT instead ...

Just arrived home for the weekend from Germany again  like last Friday  found 6m open.. First signal heard was N3DB at 50.107   Good signal heard 1 hour   and later the evening W3LPL called   both worked before Then heard NW0W at .093   good signal from EM47 best dx heard    some time good signal  easy to QSO Then the band shifted back to South - east EU again. It is easier for W to work 1000-2000 km more as long it is in the south like SV9  NW0W 2011-07-08 15:06:01 6M CW 50.09300 already confirmed  1 hour later  WSPR was on when in DL Still  decoded by VK7DIK  regularly on 80m greyline. 160m was by mistake switched to the dummy load  that is still a bit worse than the real antenna nowadays. I need to have  a  remote antenna switch   to be able to switch between  6m and 160/80

Listening at 50.090  4S7AB  was worked in 9H SV   Never heard a ping of him. Only heard Jose EA7KW exchange 519  and few others in the deep south of EU positioned more Africa then EU in fact. But some PA om's seemed to hear him well ;-)  Every once and a while like timer controlled I heard  calls  I doubt they ever heard the 4S7 Many weak scatter signals heard calling but not the om himself. Must be the KST  effect  .  Just give your call  and when hearing something like a report its a bingo! A91GE  cw  a real signal  and  A45XR in RTTY S9 No trace of  BA4SI or XV1X  shure  it's weekend ;-)

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Again in Germany for the job this week Stayed in Bad Bevesen   very nice place very quiet too. No internet in the Hotel that is too stressful ... The thunderstorm made that I had to let switch off the WSPR PC and antenna. So not QRV at all  this week. Not even in WSPR There where some nice openings reported at 6m  even in my area. JA BA4SI  the one I could not hear last weekend.. Caribbean area  again. J88ARC  heard 2 times now  it is still a new one for me  I missed T89PAK  also. Well it is not that important  maybe next year... Just the RUN to USA  the weekend 18/19 June was my best result In the yet unknown contest !!  I still do not know what contest this was  must have been the UKSMG  test ?   But that one was  not announced   for 18/19 June  but already had been on 6 of June. The SMIRK was announced in that weekend. I send my log to SMIRK but it returned. Convert...

Dick  K5AND and Pat W5OZI and  George K5TR on Saba. That explains!  Dick and Pat  always find an opening to EU. Until now all their dx-peditions to the Caribbean  where a success. Today was not much for dx XV1X  BA4SI  JA's DU/PA0HIP where all worked north-east EU nothing here just pings from the callers.   I think i need only a short opening to XV1X to catch. It will be much easier then the XV1AA Shim in SSB  i have the feeling... i heard Vietnam several times loud but Shim never seemed to hear me then 10-November-2001 10 years back..  

I had 160/80m WSPR mode running this week when in Germany for QRLthe lows band having a hard time for DX now.At 160m A45SWL sometimes decodes me.  80m little better T61AA  and VK7DIK few times. I had no internet access in the hotel i went to a nice cafe but even there access was slow i could not control wspr remote some evenings. Friday evening back home switched to 6m  wspr  but nothing heard. Then saw KP4EIT spots from ON/ south PA 50.110 did not hear him. PJ6D was reported 50.106  QSX up 2 After some time hearing only calling stations suddenly  a clear signal from PJ6D came in! woow DX Could work him after some time. Then he became  even a bit loud here in JO33hg He was working into KN78 !  One SV was complaining  about not hearing..  I could not feel real sorry for him  I was thinking  pay your bills first. I know that is not fair  but I could not help.. And thought about being  born in Greece.. I woul...