50MHz has been very quiet of late. Whilst a few openings have occurred, overall the winter Es have been poor.

Over the weekend, the Winter VHF/UHF Field Day 'contest' was conducted. A few stations were heard operating portable and I tried to provide some valuable Qs for efforts on 50, 144 and 432MHz resulting a final performance for the Field Day (as a 'Home' station) of:

Band     QSOs      Band
              Made        Total

50          13              63

144        11              153

420        10             250

Final Total:             466

Monitoring 6m as I type, and VK5RBV is weak, but audible... as seen in the SpecLab screen grab below.