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Loggings => HF Beacons => Topic started by: beaconman on November 14, 2009, 1804 UTC

Title: UFO and new sun spots
Post by: beaconman on November 14, 2009, 1804 UTC

With the solar flux at 74 and possibly climbing over
the next few days UFO 14400.5 should be able to be heard
it is slow CW abt 5 wpm...

Title: Re: UFO and new sun spots
Post by: beaconman on November 18, 2009, 1532 UTC

I just checked the Global Tuners at 1530utc
UFO 14400.48 is solid into the SE. WIS tuner...
A nice QSL card exist for UFO...

Title: Re: UFO and new sun spots
Post by: Seamus on November 18, 2009, 1556 UTC

Oh, well in that case...  ;)

(http://www.rthtg.net/beacons/beacons_17-nov-2009_19-30.jpg)

Yesterday at 19:30 UTC, I received UFO, along with CO, Pike 78, and Blinky.  I got called away before I could post the above waterfall images, and by the time I made it back here to the computer it was no longer a "fresh catch", so I didn't bother.

As you can see, UFO was fairly weak and very fade-y into the upstate of South Carolina, but it was certainly readable by ear.  It was a pretty easy copy on the longwire, though the shortened dipole couldn't pull it out at all.