What a great night on the HF bands!! Tonight has to be the best night I've had for DX in a very long time. Within minutes I had two from Kuwait, Dubai, and Israel in the log and all 59++. Superb signals from the middle east tonight! The other thing that was amazing was listening to one of the Kuwait stations working the different countries calling him.....and he had one heck of a pile up going, and switching languages as he went. I must have heard him talk in 6 different languages in the course of 5 minutes. Very impressive and a great operator!
I also managed to work the YW5PI DXpedition on Isla de Patos, SA-048, off the coast of Venezuela. Not a strong signal, but enough to work them and get them in the log. They had some deliberate jamming going on and it made it somewhat difficult to make the QSO.
The numbers tonight were SFI=142; A Index=7; K Index=1; and the SN was 122. Let's hope it continues to improve!
Well congratulations on the contacts, last weekend I was able to make it into Jordan in the Middle East. I was not on Friday evening this weekend but was on Saturday afternoon and early evening. I was able to hear but not contact Israel. He has a very large pileup and was in and out but the time the pileup died down.
ReplyDeleteGreat DX work!!