Just when I should have been down the shed working on a project, I quickly looked at the ON4KST R2 page and saw that Lance W7GJ was TXing on our moon rise. Turned the radio on and got WSJT running... and 'heard' Lance off the moon! By 0418z we'd completed.

What is most amazing is that the moon was at 19.4degrees elevation when we did this!

It's also interesting to see the following WSJT screen grab from Phil VK4FIL showing multipathing of my signal.

Whilst today's LP condx to EU was down in comparison to yesterday, some good Qs were completed. The map below summarises some of these.

More antenna work today. What started out as a quick antenna install, turned into an all day affair!

I had planned to just lower tower #2 to install my Diamond SX-3000 2/70 dual band vertical, but the rotator locked up this morning, requiring the 10m yagi removed, rotator disconnected and rebuilt. The issue... and my fault... the bearing retainer was installed upside down two weeks ago when I serviced the rotator and greased the bearing races!

Anyway, the dual band vertical is now on the top of tower #2, fed with LDF4-50 coax. Just needs to be cranked to full height and the coax terminated inside the shack and then it will be at approx 20mAGL.

Fantastic condx this morning on 28MHz with longpath open between the South Pacific and Europe. Many stations worked with RS59+ signal reports exchanged. And working Manuel FM1FV was a nice conclusion!

Quiet day on 6m... I was just  working a pile-up of EUs on 10m (most big signals RS59+), John VK4TJ started CQn on 6m... at last a signal on 6!!!!

Fantastic to see the EU's with propagation on 50MHz into Nth America, the Caribbean and Sth America (see map below) but it raises questions for the propagation theorists...  Given that this is the start of the Northern Hemisphere Es season, what mechanism is it that is extending the paths into Sth America?

Is it TEP, and if so, why dont we see the same effect on the path from EU to VK?

If you know, please share!

Very quiet on 6m lately... even the Bs from Remi FK8CP has stopped. But just tuned past the 49.750 R1 TV video and one lonely and weak video offset visible and just audible.