The AM Forum

Thanks to Chuck K1KW for drumming up Masao JA1LLY at 2315Z.  He was a solid s9 then and slowly faded to s5 by 2335Z when I worked him after Chuck.

Here's a reording of Masao (in QSO w Chuck - listening w 3-el SteppIR@60ft):  http://n1eu.com/ja1lly.mp3

73, Barry N1EU

I wondered if Chuck might stir up some JA action tonight. I was listening for a while but must have left for dunner too soon.  :'(

I worked a JA on SSB about 30-45 minutes earlier. He was 5/8-5/9 and no flutter or QSB. We were both only running 100w and simple antennas. I figure SSB has a 6-10 dB advantage over AM. So, if someone is running 400w on AM and a Yagi with 4-6 dB, the difference is more than made up. My PW 40 watts probably would not have made the trip.

Congratulations on the nice AM DX!

Just looked at the sun numbers: SFI is 146 and the SN is 179! Those are up a bunch from yesterday. Might explain the FB opening.

Thanks Steve.  Yes, amazing opening.  Wish I didn't have to work in the morning  ;-)

73 & GN, Barry N1EU

I listened briefly this morning and didn't hear much - no AM and not a lot of SSB. I may try again tomorrow morning.

Below is the sun's x-ray flux for the past several hours. There was a big spike around 2120. I wonder of this produced the seeming above average opening an hour or so later?

Yes, 10 was good to JA tonight and I managed to work 3 JA stations plus KH6U.  I just received this recording from JR2IUB, one of the JA's I worked tonight.  It's a speaker to mic thing but interesting anyway.

10 AM was hot his morning. I was on from roughly 10:45 AM to about 12:15PM EDT and worked 27 Eastern and Western Europeans stations. Several additional ones were lost in the noise or the QRM.

I heard JA1LLY when Chuck was working him but he was only about S3 to 4 and I had some local radiating oscillator parked just about on 29.01.  I rolled up to 29.601 and worked JL8GFB with a 40 watt FM rig.

JL8GFB has a few antennas:

(http://air.ap.teacup.com/jl8gfb/timg/middle_1305246773.jpg)

Great going Chuck!  Nice that there's a bunch of JA activity on 10AM.  What time did you work your first JA last night?

73, Barry N1EU

The first JA worked was a bit after 6:30 PM ESDT as I recall, maybe 6:45 PM.  The ones after the first were after 7 PM.  I'm at work so I don't recall accurately. I don't think I wrote down the time anyway.  One thing that I've noticed is that when one JA fades out, others fade in afterwards.  I've seen this on SSB quite a bit.  I think the propagation goes from Northern JA to Southern JA over time as the skip gets longer.