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Huge 6m opening to USA @ 8 July

Posted: 09 Jul 2021 01:19 AM PDT https://pe4bas.blogspot.com/2021/07/huge-6m-opening-to-usa-8-july.html





An incredible transatlantic opening on 50MHz yesterday evening till 02:00
local time in the morning. Made several QSOs to the USA and my second SSB contact to that area. Best DX heard was W6UC from California (+8800km).
Both 50.313 and 50.323 were packed with signals. To make contacts you could only try picking the strongest signals which were into the + dB figures. To find a empty spot in the waterfall was not possible. Although best chance
was above 3000Hz. However, there are still not many able to listen there.
My advice to those that use FT8: set your filtering as wide as possible. I listen 3600Hz wide as always. To transmit there you definitely need CAT
control and configure JTDX or WSJT-X using "fake split".

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