Activity was way up last night on 222. Worked 18 stations in 13 unique grids.
Conditions changed every few minutes, so it was always a surprise how easy or
difficult each new contact was to work. Working K3SK in FM07 on SSB was a good
example. Dave is usually an FT8 or really weak CW contact at best for me. Last
night he went from in the noise to Q5 on sideband over the course of our QSO.
6 meters has been open every day this week, and reports of a house in NJ only
20 miles away from my QTH getting hit by a meteorite on Tuesday piqued my
curiosity on how active meteor scatter was these days. I left the radio on
overnight tuned to 50.260 MHz and found a ton of activity had occurred between
1:30 AM and 4 AM. A little too late for me but it's got me thinking about
trying this mode sometime in the near future. A pre-scheduled nap will be
required to make this possible.
The following is my log for 222 last night. Tuesday evening from 7PM to 9PM is
a lot easier than the graveyard shift. Hope to see more local stations getting
on and joining the fun.
CU on the Bands
Phil WA3NUF
222 PH 05/09/23 2307 K1WHS FN43mj222 PH 05/09/23 2308
WW2Y FN20qj222 PH 05/09/23 2310 W1XR FM19hx222 CW
05/09/23 2323 WA3EOQ FM09jo222 PH 05/09/23 2325 W9KXI
FN12ne222 CW 05/09/23 2329 N1SV FN42ep222 CW 05/09/23
2331 WB2VVV FN41cr222 PH 05/09/23 2334 KO4YC FM17gv222
PH 05/09/23 2338 K3SK FM07222 PH 05/09/23 2341 WZ1V
FN31rh222 PH 05/09/23 2348 N1JEZ FN44222 PH 05/09/23
2358 K2RMX FN20xp222 PH 05/09/23 2359 K1TEO
FN31jh222 PH 05/09/23 2359 K1PXE FN31ke222 FT8 05/10/23
0013 K1FSY FN31222 CW 05/10/23 0025 K1TR FN42iu222
CW 05/10/23 0029 VE3DS FN03fq222 PH 05/10/23 0059 N3RG
FM29ki
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