Dx in South Texas

[Philpoh]

Hey ghutch, when does DX start rolling into TX.

In Ohio seems to start about 7:30am from Western Europe and by 9:30am seems to be wide open all of Europe/Africa/South and Central America.
Then by 3:30pm Europe seems to drop out leaving Central/South America and also West coast.
Australia and New Zealand come in after 4pm till about 8:30pm.

What time do you seem to contact 25 or 91 div? Any Gray Line propagation?

Thanks Philip

 

[ghutch]

Philpoh ....My contacts into indonesia have been around 00;00 hrs utc and later....my Dx follows the sun as normal....europe around 730am as the sun comes up.....south and central americas....noonish it drops some everyone fades to low signal levels then all picks up about 200pm CST then europe fades. west coast, canada, then the far east and australia/new zealand.
last nite I was on at 800pm local CST. Dx was strong from new zealand and Australia....I hear many French speaking stations I believe are in the Pacific islands. At 800pm here the band seems dead...a few faint calls from south america/central america calling asia and points west.
I made a few calls and the down under guys come in strong. Last nite I could hear Waco Tex. appro. 300 miles north at signal 1 and a 5/5 station from Australia? he was talking with.
Did not turn it on today so i most likely missed some good ones!!!!!

 

[ghutch]

Dx has been slower here in s texas.....called a couple times today but not many returns...Did hear 2wr2000 calling south america, sounded good here....strong at 5-5+
worked 22qd03 french guiana ....fredo
SWL"D many stations with strong signals and audio this afternoon were..mostly nw US & Canada and S America....couple from the pacific
211 division!! south orkney islands ...was not able to get numbers/qsy freqency due to qso chatter/ QRM on .555....next time!
32sd011 chile calling pacific 5/5
23jr624 jamacia calling pacific 5/5
9sd001 strong as always 5/7
3sab/hb10I calling and listening .500 5/5
9wc341 Tom 5/9 worked
3sd113 calling qsy 610 5/4
347at116 cuacao 5/5
3sd194 5/3 brazil
3et110 5/3
4sab11 5/3
5et182 5/3 calling asia pacific
seems SA was the dominate lane this afternoon with many strong stations....how are you guys doing? are conditions improving?

 

[Philpoh]

Was also quiet over the weekend in Ohio, with Sunday a little better.
Heard Fredo also 22QD03 on Friday @5pm strong 5/9.
Sat was almost all S America, while Sun Europe came in around 9am till 12pm.
30WD014
35ET001 9am Andy 5/5
75SD101 Alfredo 5/5
104TK01 Patrick 5/4
1IR124 Elia 5/5
44ET310 Deon 5/6 @8:36am - small window couple minutes
173SD109 Georges 5/4 @12:20pm
Mon Oct 15 had a few strong Hawaiian stations on 38lsb @ 7pm.

Looks like this weekend Oct 19-21 going to be some better looking SFI numbers!
Taking Fri off so should start around 7am -- will see.
Philo

 

[ghutch]

Today was good.....many Europe stations early thru afternoon along with s America...then Asia and S Pacific, Japan.
Thailand heard but not worked......anyone hear Mongolia?
Looks like the dx is getting better<More audio>

 

[Philpoh]

Took Friday off, Europe started coming in at 7:45am.
Got a few new ones:
49SD243 Balearic Islands, Tom @9:40am 27.605 usb 5/9
50SD123 Russia, Alex @9:50am 27.605 usb 5/5
185SD101 Comoros Islands, Mr Cheik @12:04pm 27.580 usb 3/5
173SD109 Reunion Island, Geroges @12:10pm 27.585 usb 3/5
Heard 38AT103 big backup for about an hour on 27.610 @10am 3/4
Love to be able to hear Mongolia, Japan, Indonesia!!!

 

[Philpoh]

Update:
Just got 25HF011 Yoshi @7pm on 27.590 usb Sig 2/3
Heard couple Cali's talking to 25 div - turned twds Japan and waited
my turn!

 

[ghutch]

Band was wide open today! All of Europe,Scandinavia,northeast US,Canada....day progressed with T5 being unbearable....so much man made chatter QRM I had to shut it down!:sad::sad:
Later S America, Down Under, Pacific areas, and DX Man (he is A division with the qso map of his!!)' now to see what this evening brings. Hope the qsb idiots are off drinking-smoking and fall to sleep. If condition from this morning don't fall out it should be a good evening.
Philpoh
You did great! I missed the 50 but sat on the side for several minutes he was 5/3 to 5/7 here, the 38 pile was also strong. The 38 returned my call twice but the pile up ran over my bus!, his signal was great, I just don't have enough metal in the air.
Great work on your new ones..
.I also worked a stateside activation on 27.660 from a island in NY ....Brian must have worked 100 European station in the first hour....non stop calling to his station

 

[ghutch]

Philpoh.....JUST SAW THE JAPAN POST GREAT WORK,!! I better get off this computer and get back on the radio!!!

 

[Philpoh]

thanks ghutch, about time for 25 div.
after the 25 div I heard 101AT170 but could'nt get qsk in also had 210SD come back to me but faded out on 27.590 - about a 10 second contact.
for Sat:
317SD471 Belarus Pinsk, Valentin 27.540 usb 8:26am 3/3
302RS460 Russia, Vladimir 27.540 usb 8:30am 2/2 only breif contact
had couple russian stations on .540 but was covered up by 91 Bruno pileup,
which I could'nt hear him!
had alot of 44 div come in around 2pm:
44SD170 S Africa, Franco 27.565 usb 1:55pm
44RAD002 S Africa, JJ 27.545 usb 2:11pm
44BRC124 S Africa, Stevin 27.700 usb 2:40pm
Seem to be hearing a few more rare div for me in Ohio!

 

[ghutch]

Great! Philpoh! You had a great day! Dx was good here this morning....had to cut off about 11am. Nothing rare but many,many european stations. Did hear some Russian, a couple africa stations, and quite a few Scandinavia operators.
The conditions seem to favor more to Europe and north rather than eastern Europe and northern Africa. It's all good!
Good luck tonite as the gray line comes in....I heard Japan last nite several times once on 38usb....mr yoshi made several calls and was 5/6 in my area. His last calls I heard were about 8pm CST
I'll post later what happens here tonite! Looking forward to so good QSO's

 

[Philpoh]

All weekend the band was wide open, best all year for me.
Sat night I waited for 25 division and got a couple:
25SD019 Japan, Katsu 3/3 27.547 usb 6:28pm
25SD125 Japan, Yasu, 3/4 27.530 usb 6:45pm
25AT021 Japan, Toshi 4/5 27.580 usb 6:56pm
25HF011 Japan, Yoshi 5/6 27.510 usb 7:13pm
Sun started around 8am - couple new ones:
304PG101 Estonia, Andy 5/7 27.610 usb 8:48am
315SD110 Ukraine, Andrew 3/4 27.560 usb 9:25am
I heard 102SD444 for a minute until the 304 pileup started.
27DT109 Iceland, Boi 4/5 27.550 usb 10:35am started a pileup.
33LV33 Alaska, John 5/7 27.535 usb 2:30pm
25AT101M Japan, Toshi 4/4 27.560 usb 5:45pm
25SD019 Japan, Katsu 5/5 27.510 usb 6:17pm
Finally got 91AU001 Indonesia, Mustafa 2/2 27.570 usb 6:45pm

The guy from 9 div was in rare form this weekend - heard many different countries talking about his antics on .555 - he was 5/9 for couple hours!

 

[ghutch]

Great philoh....I was in that pileup trying to work Mustafa. I might have heard you? What is your call. Pm me and well set up schedule.
During the 91 pileup I heard a couple 25's calling back to stations calling him?
You right the idiots were strong yesterday here. and the skippy guy is on this morning....Cussing the Mexicans that are from Bazil and Columbia but conditions are wide open!! East Europe Scandinavia nd all the south American stations.
I also worked the Estonia station a new one for me! 73 s

 

[kd-5-bgt]

Very good contacts guys....go get em !!

 

[ghutch]

Did almost zero radio today....SWL'd Europe Scandinavia,n,central,south America Hawaii and pacific
Contacts were into east Poland ....just a few miles from Russia! Just can't get into russia :angry: and a couple Europe.....I was in SWL mode today?
The band seems to be open almost worldwide at times......hearing europe from iitaly to Norway and Greenland , east
Poland,south America, canada and east/west coast of USA calling at once....these are the ones on air that I can hear calling CQ?
Much QSNI (noise from idiots) cussing, whistling, having qso's....but sill manage to hear hundreds of calls. Anyone get any rare ones?