The propagation was also not the best. The numbers were: SFI=85. SN=25. A Index=7, and the K Index=1. I guess as we get close to the bottom of the cycle we can expect to see more and more poor to non-existent propagation.
There did not seem to be very many "new ones" on the air, but I did manage to put one new country in the log, I managed to work a station in Palestine, never heard them on the air before. Other than that it was nothing too special. There was lots of some pretty deep QSB on some of the bands which caused some issues.
Now it's time to do the annual maintenance on the antennas and get ready for the Ontario QSO Party coming up next month. I also have a couple of island activation planned for May, can't wait to get out and start operating portable with no snow on the ground....
I was doing some blog reading and seems the conditions were playing hard on most stations in the contest. Palestine is a nice catch for sure! I have heard some rare DX in contests but also there have been some major pileups to work them as well. Great you were able to make the contact.
ReplyDelete73, Mike