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June 29. 2003 - Two nice clouds suddenly... | Please send your comments/reports/log-sheets/audios to DK5YA

Poor conditios the whole day through but, like the days before, suddenly in the afternoon MUF was rising pretty fast over central Europe. At 1400 UT 50 MHz was almost dead, at 1500 UT the band was crowded and at 1600 UT there was broadcast from Italy strong into the UK and from EA into HA. At 1630 144 was open from EA to HA and SP while YU and T9 was into G and GW. Later SV and 9H1 made SP (a 2nd cloud) while LZ was into southern DL and EA into LY and YL. Same time UT5 was into southern France while northern Italy made YO and LZ. Cloud was moving north and G made HA, YU, YO and UT when at the end there was EI into eastern DL and OK while GW into LY. Strange movement of both clouds....and a really nice mix all across Europe. Not a ping, by the way, in JN49....
Involved DXCC: EI, G, GW, GI, GJ, GM, DL, LX, OZ, SM, LA, LY, YL, SP, OK, OM, HA, UT, S5, 9A, HA, YU, T9, YO, LZ, SV, I, EA, F, HB9
 

144 MHz Es June 29th 2003

Logs and reports:
DL5GAC | EI5FK | F1FIH | F4BWJ | F4DSD | F5LKW | G0CUZ | G1AAR | M1MGD | G4RRA | G4SWX | G7RAU | G8IZY | GI4OWA | GM4CXM | GW3LEW | GW4DGU | GW8ASA | GW8IZR | HA1FV | HA5CW | HA5OV | HA6NA | HA6NQ | HA8MV | HG1RJD | IZ1BPN | IW2BSQ | IW2NOR | I4YNO | LZ1ZP | OE3FVU | OK2BZQ | OK2WO | OM1AVK | OM5CM | OM5UM | SP2IQW | SP5XMU | SV3CYM | S57TW | UT5JCW | YU7EW |

DL5GAC, JN47ut
17:43 LZ1DP 144 SSB 59 59 KN22TK 1381 km
17:43 LZ1KJ 144 SSB 59 59 KN31CS 1461 km
17:45 LZ2CC 144 SSB 59 59 KN23JG 1276 km

EI5FK, IO51rt
17:13 HA0HO KN07SU 59 59 SSB 2185
17:14 OM1AVK JN88OD 55 54 SSB 1875
17:17 OM5CM JN88DF 57 59 SSB 1808
17:18 HA5CW JN97PM 59 59 SSB 2045
17:22 OM5MX JN98BG 59 59 SSB 1932
17:26 HA5OV JN97KW 57 57 SSB 1998
17:49 SP3MGM JO73QE 57 59 SSB 1618
17:50 OK2WO JN89IH 59 59 SSB 1795
17:50 OK2RX JN89 59 59 SSB 1811+-
17:50 OK1XH JN79MT 59 59 SSB 1664
17:52 OK2BDS JN79WF 59 59 SSB 1741
18:02 DL3RBH JN68 59 55 SSB 1573+-
18:03 OE5KE JN78DF 59 59 SSB 1671
18:03 HA1FV JN87JJ 55 59 SSB 1879
18:05 HG1RJD JN87 59 59 SSB 1891+-
18:06 HA1SR JN87HQ 59 59 SSB 1855

F1FIH, JN23gs
16:43 HA5OV 57 57 JN97NJ SSB
17:04 LY3ED 59 59 KO14UX SSB

F4BWJ, IN93mp
16:32 SP9QZS JO9ĜNA 59 59 SSB 1677
17:15 SM1LPU JO97CK 59 59 SSB 2031
17:16 SP4MPB KOĜ3GS 59 59 SSB 1925
17:17 LY2BAW KO25KA 55 55 SSB 2238
Cdx: IC 910 H 100W DK7ZB 14 elements long Yagi

F4DSD, JN23jo
17h49 UT5JCW 59 59 KN64SN 2286 KM
FT847 100W 15 élé DJ9BV

F5LKW, JN23sj
Here only one QSO via FAI. At 1650Z , 144295 Mhz, in CW = HA5OV. I listened him for 15minutes. I tried to QSO him but i think my signal was too weak for HA5OV. Here 100W into 13elts

G0CUZ, IO82wm
YZ7NOU 1650 59 59 KN94
YU1EV 1650 59 59 KN04CN
HA6NQ 1655 59 59 JN98WA
HA9KRL 1655 59 59 KN07
HA0HO 1710 59 59 KN07SU
HA0MK 1718 59 59 KN08
YT1VV 1720 59 59 Lost N/C
A few other stations heard from similar areas. Opening not too good from here, signals generally very unstable.

G1AAR, JO00at
16.35 YU1IO KN04IO 59 59
16.53 YO8RNF KN37EW 59 59 New#
Another patchy opening here, The Stations I worked were strong but it didn't really get going properly.

M1MGD, IO91vc
Wkd 17.16 YO8RNF 59 59 KN37EW
Hrd YU1IO OM3WAN OM4CW
VERY POOR OPERATING BY MANY G-STATIONS TODAY LOTS OF CONTACTS SPOILT AS A RESULT OF THIS. PLEASE PLEASE TAKE MORE NOTICE OF WHAT IS GOING ON YOU MAY JUST WORK MORE DX LISTEN TO THE LIKES OF G7RAU,G8IZY,G4SWX,G4RRA WELL DONE BOYS THE BAND NEEDS YOU GUYS HI HI.

G4RRA, IO80bs
A patchy opening here,started with IO71 etc working YU stations,but nil here.Then the following qsos
1656 YO8RNF 57 58 KN37EW new#
1656 OK2BUC 59 59 JN99CN
1657 OM3RI 59 - Inc
1700 SP9DHQ 59 59 JN99JR
1720 OK2RX 59 59 JN89IE
1721 SP9AI 59 59 JN99AI
1722 SP9EWO 59 59 JN99AW
1723 OM3WAN 59 59 JN99IF
1725 OK2BZQ 59 59 JN99
1755 LY2IC 59 59 KO14IC
1755 LY2BAW 59 59 KO25KA
1757 LY3ED 55 56 KO14UX

G4SWX, JO02pb
16.49 YU1EI KN04CN
16.50 YU1IO KN04IQ
16.54 HA6ZB KN07
16.56 OM4CW JN88UN
17.12 HA0MK KN08TA
17.23 YO5BWD KN27GD
For me this was a very selective es openning with stations only audible for about a minute at a time. I was rather surprised by the very short hop to OM4CW QRB 1230Km.

G7RAU, IO90ir
17:24:03 OK2BZQ 59 59 JN99GM 1416
17:20:44 OM3WAN 59 59 JN99IF 1435
17:00:35 SP9DHQ 59 59 JN99KR 1434
16:55:50 OK2BZQ 59 59 JN99GM 1416
16:54:58 OK2BUC 59 59 JN99CN 1392
16:53:27 OK2VSO 59 59 JN89XK 1377
16:52:49 YO8RNF 59 59 KN37EW 2017
16:49:22 YO2LEA 59 59 KN06WG 1769
16:46:14 HG8QG 59 59 KN06MT 1687
16:32:08 YU1IO 59 59 KN04IQ 1770
Intense signals in this one, it also moved north very quickly

G8IZY, IO91vc
1643 YU1IO 59 Lost in QRM N/c
1701 YO8RNF 59 59 KN37EW#
1710 OK2BZQ 59 59 JN99GM
1721 HA6NM 59 59 JN98PB
1723 OM4CW 59 59 JN88
Hrd: OM3WAN,YU1EV, YO5BWD,HA0MK, OM5LD.
Very deep fading then sudden reappearance several minutes later. QRM and bad manners unbelievable, mostly from stations who should (from their callsigns at least) have known better.

GI4OWA, IO64ix
17.14 T94DU 59 JN95
17.15 9A2AE 59 JN86
17.19 YT1VV 59 JN94
17.20 9A2SB 59 JN95
17.48 SP9QMP 59 JO90
17.49 DL8UCC 59 JO71
17.51 SP9JCS 59 JO90
17.52 OK2VWB 59 JN99
18.05 SP9JDP 59 JN99 (not confirmed)
I seemed to be on the edge of this opening as GI6ATZ (IO74) and GW8IZR (IO73) were working HA stations etc that I could not hear. There were two separate phases with a short break (just enough time for my dinner!) in the middle. T94 was a new country for me so I really can't complain.

GM4CXM, IO75tw
1712 YU7ACO 59/59 KN05QC
1714 S57TW 59/59 JN75EX
1716 IV3GBO 59/59 JN66
Opening was very short in IO75.
Hrd HA5 call me but n/c.

GW3LEW, IO71ps
1711 yu7ew kno5
1716 ha0ho kn07
1717 ok2pmx jn88
1718 ha5ov jn97
1718 oe3fvu jn78
1718 ha5cw jn97
1721 ha5nf kn08
1722 om1avk jn88
1724 ha7mb kn07
at first 10 mins of opening no stations came back! was very spotty. local stations often hearing different bunch of stations !

GW4DGU, IO71sv
YU1EV 1634 59 KN04in heard
YU1IO 1640 55 KN04iq heard
HA0HO 1650 59 KN07su heard
OM3WAR 1710 59 heard
YU7EW 1711 59 KN05hp heard
HA5CW 1721 59 59 jn97
OE3FVU 1722 59 heard
HA5PT 1722 59 59 JN97mk on 144270!!
HA5KG 1723 59 heard
HA5OV 1725 59 59 JN97nj
OK2WO 1758 59 59 JN89io
OK1XH 1759 59 59 JN79mt
OK2V?? 1800 59 lost
S57O 1815 59 59 JN86dt
A very disjointed opening here. Presumably the MUF was pretty marginal.Signals were coming-up for short periods and then disappearing rapidly, and there was a lot of geographic selectivity. At times I was unable to hear stations being worked at 59 by GW3LEW, just 22km SW of me!
I'm thinking of starting a charitable foundation to supply VFOs to those stations who are apparently still crystal controlled on 144300.....

GW8ASA, IO81em
17:17 HA0MK 59 59 KN08
17:18 HA5OX 59 59 JN97
17:19 HA5CW 59 59 JN97
17:20 OM5LD 59 59 JN98
17:22 OM5MX 59 59 JN98
17:25 OM5CM 59 59 JN98
17:59 SP9JCS 59 59 JN99
18:01 SP9EWO 59 59 JN99
18:06 OE5KE 59 QSB before complete
Hrd LY2IC in KO14 but he qsy under QRM. Had a late dinner and could hear the noise on 300, now have indigestion hi.

GW8IZR, IO73ti
16:50 9A2SB (?) JN95GM 59 59 SSB 1860
16:50 HG8KG KNĜ6 59 59 SSB 1957+-
16:55 YU1IO KNĜ4LP 59 59 SSB 2070
16:55 HA8KG KNĜ6 59 59 SSB 1957+-
16:59 YĜ2LEA KNĜ6 59 59 SSB 1957+-
17:05 YO2KQD KNĜ6MT 59 59 SSB 1940
17:05 HA5KG JN97 59 59 SSB 1770+-
17:10 OM2IK JN88SI 59 59 SSB 1627
17:20 OM5LD JN98BI 59 59 SSB 1666
17:20 OM5CM JN98DT 59 59 SSB 1653
17:20 HA6NQ JN98 59 59 SSB 1717+-
17:20 HA6IGM JN97 59 59 SSB 1770+-
17:21 OM4CW JN88 59 59 SSB 1586+-
17:21 HA6ZB KNĜ7BV 59 59 SSB 1820
17:23 T94DU JN95DA 59 59 SSB 1878
17:23 YU7ACO KNĜ5QC 59 59 SSB 2067
17:23 HG2SF JN86KU 59 59 SSB 1670
17:50 S57O JN86DT 59 59 SSB 1636
17:57 DL3RBH JN68 59 59 SSB 1329+-
17:58 HA3HV JN86UK 59 59 SSB 1749
A nice opening that yielded a couple of new squares.
With regard to bad operating practice, apart from many stns sticking to 300 it didn't seem too bad out here... but then QRM from G stns is nothing new when you live in the far west of the UK, you just get used....
 

HA1FV, JN87jj
17.17 GW0GEI 59/59 IO73TG 1631 km
17.18 EI4EY 59/51 IO52QP 1897 km
18.08 EI5FK 59/55 IO51RT 1881 km

HA5CW, JN97pm
1705 GI6ATZ IO74AJ
1707 G4LOH IO94EA
1710 G3YJR IO93FJ
1711 G0TKJ IO93HM
1718 EI4EY IO52QP #385
1718 GW8ASA IO81EM
1719 GW3LEW IO71PS #386
1720 GW4DGU IO71SV
1720 GW4EAI IO81JP
1721 G3NVD IO91JK
1721 EI5FK IO51RT
1724 GW1MCD IO81
FT225RD + MUTECH + MIRAGE B1016 150W TO 10EL Y 170M ASL

HA5OV, JN97nj
16.30 ut EA3DUY 59/59 JN11 (FAI)
16.40 EA3DXU 57/59 JN11CM (FAI)
16.41 EB3DYS 59/59 JN11CK (FAI)
16.42 GJ0JSY 57/57 IN89XE (FAI OR ES?)
16.43 F1FIH 57/57 JN23GS ( FAI)
16.46 G4IGO 59/59 IO80 (ES)
16.50 F5??? 559/59 JN23 (FAI) very week signal and qrn
16.53 M0RDX 59/59 IO83WB ES and after all es
16.54 G4KWQ 59/59 IO92AQ
16.55 GW0GEI 59/59 IO73TG
16,56 GI6ATZ 59/59 IO74AJ
17,04 GW8JLY 59/59 IO81GM
17,06 G4LOH 59/59 IO94
17.10 G0TKJ 59/59 IO93HM
17,18 GW3LEW 59/59 IO71PS
17,19 GW8ASA 59/59 IO81EM
17.25 GW4DGU 59/59 IO71SV
17.28. EI5FK 57/57 IO51RT
17.50 EI4EY 59/55 IO52QP NEW SQUARE

HA6NA, JN98vc
17.11 144 G4KWQ 59 59 IO92AQ
30 Watts - 8 ele Y - LNA - FT221R

HA6NQ, JN98wa
18.54 G0CUZ 59/59 IO82
18.55 M0COP 59/59 IO92BK
18.55 G4JZF 59/59 IO82XO
18.55 G8TIC 59/59 IO82
18.56 G4TIF 59/59 IO92FH
19.00 G4KWQ 59/59 IO92AQ
19.08 GW8IZR 59/59 IO73
19.09 G4PBP 59/59 IO82WO
19.10 GW0GEI 59/59 IO73TG
19.11 G4KIY 59/59 IO92WN
19.11 G0WUU 59/59 IO92SR
19.13 G1OXH 59/59 IO92SW
19.16 M0RDX 59/59 IO83WB
Nothing hrd more....nil new # big signals but short opening here

HA8MV, KN06gu
1701 144.290 GI6ATZ 59 59 IO74A
1709 144.305 GW8JLY HRD.
1713 144.310 G4LOH 59 59 IO94EA
Town Szarvas 11el .Yagi TR751e 20w

HG1RJD, JN87gj
17.19 EI4EY 59/52 IO52QP
18.09 EI5FK 59/59 IO51RT

IZ1BPN, JN35vg
17:40 YO3DMU 59 59 KN43

IW2BSQ, JN45uj
17.47 .305 YO3DMU KN34BJ Km 1295 here for about 2'

IW2NOR, JN45on
17:17 EB3EXL 5/9 5/9 JN01SU 741 Km
17:47 YO3DMU 5/9 5/9 KN43 1334 Km
JN01SU unusual tropo contact... hrd!
Wrk condx: 2x17 F9FT @ 40m, Kenwood TS2000

I4YNO, JN54kp
17.45 z. UT5JCW 59/59 KN64SN
A lot of with noise, local callers with Xtal transmitter (all on 144.300) and only one ES QSO on 144 MHz

LZ1ZP, KN22id
17.38 HB9QQ 599 HRD.
17.43 LX2DX 59/59 JN29
17.43 DL1SDN 59/59 JN48
17.44 DJ2IE 59/59 JN48
17.45 DL8GP 57/55 JN39

OE3FVU, JN78ve
17.19 GW3LEW 59 59 IO71PS
Heard 17.18 EI5FK and 17.21 EI4EY.
I had guests and was busy with preparing the barbeque. When I popped into the shack, I noticed on the cluster the Es. I turned on the Rig, but initially heard no Es station at all and just before I was to leave, I heard EI5FK, than I coould work GW3LEW, and shortly after hearing EI4EY there again was no station to hear. So either I was very lucky to be in the shack during the minutes that OE could work, or I missed a great opening, hi. But the Food was excellent....

OK2BZQ,JN99gm
16:55 G7RAU 59++ 59 IO90IR 1416km
16:56 G4IGO 59+ 59 IO80..
17:08 G4IGO 59++ 59 IO80 again big signal
17:10 G4IZY 59 59 IO91VC 1339km
17:21 G4DOL 59+ 59 IO80SO 1499km
17:23 G7RAU 59++ 59 IO90IR 1416km
17:24 G4RRA 59 59 IO80BS 1597km
18:00 GW4HBK 59+ 59 IO81KP 1542km
heard 9H1CG,SV3..?,GW8ASA,GI6ATZ
rig: 10W only, 7 el.Yagi

OK2WO, JN89ih
1752 EI5FK 59/59 SSB IO51
1759 GW4DGU 59/59 SSB IO71
here 100W 7el.Yagi, JN89IH

OM1AVK, JN88od
16:55 GW0GEI 59/59 in IO73KK (1669km)
16:56 G3YJR 59/59 in IO93FJ (1437km) 2.5W out
17:19 EI5FK 54/55 in IO51RT (1876km)
17:21 GW8JLY 59/59 in IO81JM (1507km)
17:24 GW3LEW 59/59 in IO71PS (1613km)
17:25 G3NAQ 59/59 in IO91HL (1380km)
17:54 EI4EY 59/55 in IO52QP (1888km)
with ICOM-821 (50W) ANT: 11 el.YAGI

OM5CM, JN98df
16:55 GW0GEI 59 59 IO73tg
16:59 GW8IZR 59 59 IO73ti
17:10 GW4VBM 59 59 IO83lf
17:11 G0JVY 59 59 IO93
17:12 G4WXZ 59 59 IO83il
17:12 G3YJR 59 59 IO93fj
17:20 EI5FK 59 57 IO51rt
17:21 G0RRJ 57 54 IO91fe
17:24 MW1MFY 59 59 IO81
17:25 GW8ASA 59 59 IO81em
ODX: 1952 km, EI5FK.

OM5UM, JN98eo
16.57 G4ZTR JO01KW 59/59 1293km
17.12 G4PBP IO82WO 59/59 1507
17.20 G4IGO IO80xx 59/59 1483
17.41 EI4EY IO52QP 59/59 1934
HRD MM0CEZ

SP2IQW, JO94gm
SV3CYM 17.43 59/52 KM08vf new
MW1MFY 18.00 hrd 59 IO81
As seen on DXCl opening was quite large. Beeing on the radio long time I only heard LY's working 9H, F, G, GW while nil of these here (marginal skip to my location or what is more probable morrain hills shadowing S to W direction.

SP5XMU, KO02lg
16:30 EA3DXU JN11CM 59 59 SSB/qsb/ 1847
16:32 EB3EXL JN01SU 59 59 SSB 1861
16:35 F5ANT JN24IJ 59 59 SSB 1481

SV3CYM, KM08vf
144300 DG5DWL 5/9 JO71 17:28
144300 DL7FF 5/9 JO62 17:28
144300 SP2IQW 5/2 JO94GM 17:43
144300 SK7MW 5/5 QSB JO65 18:05

S57TW, JN75ex
17.15 GM4CXM 59 59 IO75TW

UT5JCW, KN64sn
17:37 IZ1ANK JN33UT 59 59 SSB 2052
17:41 F1JRD JN13WO 59 59 SSB 2358
17:43 F6HZL JN23QU 59 59 SSB 2235
17:44 I4YNO JN54KP 59 59 SSB 1788
17:44 IW1CCH JN54HQ 59 59 SSB 1807
17:45 F4DSD JN23JO 59 59 SSB 2286
17:46 I1CPN JN34VI 59 59 SSB 2035
17:48 I1JXY JN44WC 59 59 SSB 1876
17:48 I1ANP JN44VC 59 59 SSB 1882
17:49 IZ5FKK JN53GU 59 59 SSB 1828
17:50 I4LCK JN54PD 59 59 SSB 1764

YU7EW, KN05hp
17.11 GW3LEW 59 59 IO71PS 1969 km
17.12 GW4DGU 59 59 IO71SV 1955 km
17.13 G7ANV 59 59 IO95CH 1904 km
17.16 GW0GEI 59 59 IO73TG 1984 km
 

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