Life has been good for 6m operators. Although a substantial investment timewise is needed, 6m is currently offering a lot of goodies. A nice opening to Japan occured on June 9th with SSSP propagation and great openings to the Caribbean on June 10, 11 and 12th.
On Thursday June 9 I could log 5 Japanese stations:
JE1BMJ, JL8GFB, JA5AUC, JA6GCE and JA6WFM
The last few days saw nice openings to the Caribbean. E.g. Andrea, FJ7/IK1PMR, who I am sponsoring with a 4 ele 6m yagi, could work into South Europe on June 10. He was only using a vertical and ~80W. Meanwhile Andrea is on Anguilla as VP2EMR and there the yagi will be set up, likely today June 13th or tomorrow.
June 12 yielded an afternoon and evening opening. Countries heard: FG, FS, KP2, KP4, HI, PJ2, 5J0BV (!) and VP2M.
Here are recordings of FS/K9EL (13:13u utc) and NP2B (21:00 utc). Later that night, 21.47utc, I could make a (difficult) QSO with VP2MRT for DXCC #206.
So now I can start looking for VP9GE and V3. If SSSP openings are going to happen again towards the North-East then BY and HL would be nice new ones. Only time wil tell …
13 June 2010 at 10:56:38
Hi Enno,
Glad we finally made a contact. It’s great to be a new one on 6m for you. 73 and Best DX!
John
VP2MRT