Another fantastic Es opening today.
It started off good at 14:40 there were Italian Repeaters on FM but no-one on ssb, very odd, but a call on 144300 then produced:
14:42 IH9GPI JM56xt 2018km at 59++
I would have been happy with that contact but the opening soon got even better, the band opened to Italy with IKØRWX, IKØSMG, I8MPO, IWØBJP/Ø and IK2XEG making the log before a second Es spot produced a spectacular 20 minute opening to Crete
14:58 SV9GPV KM25EH 59/59 144MHz SSB ES 2893km
SV9GPV with G4LOH 144MHz 3rd july 2009 2893km
New country #54 and square 269 from here for me.
Then even louder:
15:07 SV9CVY KM25KA 59/59 144MHz SSB ES 2948km Es ODX
Highlights of rest of the log being:
15:17 SV1BJY KM18UA 59 59 2 m. SSB ES 2647km
15:18 SW1NZX KM17VV 59 59 2 m. SSB ES 2662km #270
15:18 SV1COA KM17UX 59 58 2 m. SSB ES 2650km
A bunch of Italian and Croatian stations then made it into the log with last signals heard here at about 15:50 UTC.
Posted by Tim at July 3, 2009 09:29 PM