11m conditions

I haven't had much radio time over the last couple of weeks but summer skip is here and little stateside,turkey,russia etc being heard.
I did get a shoutback from Rocco in 91 div Indonesia today but conditions dropped out before i got his complete call but it was nice to work vertical to vertical and for a few mins he was 5/9.
I think I was late to the party as I did hear some locals speaking about working him.

Also worked 161 div Poland...

Certainly been lively this afternoon on 11m,
4 new DXCC,s for me.

91,115,44,302 Div

admittedly the beam helped greatly to secure these with little effort.

Nice one, Trevor.

Likewise ranger the propagation and different divisional stations I’ve heard and worked over the last 72 hours has been amazing.95,302,115,3,43,50,116 and 329.Not including the usual European suspects either,Did anyone else work an International Marconi day activation as it a great looking QSL card.Looking at my log from this time 12 months ago I certainly didn’t work half of these divisions and nothing has been altered at the QTH setup so maybe the solar cycle 25 has a greater effect on conditions earlier then expected.Have a great week everyone and let’s hope the DX continues and with South America still heard at 10pm there’s still plenty of time to QSO stations after work.
Cheers Tom.
26CT4029

Some patches of E skip this evening. Just heard an Austrian talking to 26CT3969   Haven't managed to make any contacts myself though   Hope you all are making the most of it.

Happy to copy three CT members today out of Norway:

26 CT 1305 Joe
26 CT 2917 Chris
26 CT 3460  ( broken qso, qsb. )

Regards: 20 CT 017 Henning

I had a pleasant couple of hours at the dx location this afternoon. The band was in great shape with Qatar and Brazil heard, with some nice contacts into: Italy, France and Germany. Working conditions were a: Yeticom Optima, 40w, Icom SM30 desk-mike, Sirio 4000 at 515m asl.

11 Meters has really been boiling today , have done qsos with most of south and east europe today out from south Norway, and had a nice qso with the professional 327 CT 002 Patrick in Slovenia

Greetings 20 CT 017 Henning

Managed to work 188 Div. Leo in Madagascar this afternoon.
Andy 26CT4521

Conditions were very hit and miss today in South Finland, UK,France ,Spain all at the same time, was cleaning the Shack today and did the MC KINLEY wideband to one of the 2 i have, working well so far., better feel than the Lincoln 2 plus.

Sunday will be better in my location. I hope

It's France and Italy both booming in to my part of the UK at the moment, with a little bit of Germany in between.

Same here. Great propagation. Only problem being on 11mtr is there seems to be Italian contests taking a lot of space. I canna here myself think at times.

El commadante,coca cola,donkey noises,testing 123,hola and whistles etc all loud on T5....welcome to eu propogation.

Imho the worse of 11 metres all on t5 yesterday and my cue to leave radio until autumn when the long prop returns.

Yep, it's here. Going by the date I took THIS VID last year, the E skip proper looks to arrived later this year.

Sam, do you do 26MHz super low block channels or lower? Not trying to encourage way out of band piracy, but in the mid-nineties before I sold up had some great contacts down there. Ch 19 super low being a calling channel like the 555 but with a lot less craziness. Don't know if it's still a thing, I didn't hear a lot down there last year.

All I can hear are Egyptian voices at my location.
Victor will like that one lol.

Ha! You crack me up Alan! Hope you had a good time mate.


Got to admit I've had a listen but not bothered with 11m so far this year and have to agree with Sam about the poor operating practices.

Mind you there's been a fair bit of "Hola! Hola!" on the Ham bands too!

SangueG wrote:

Yep, it's here. Going by the date I took THIS VID last year, the E skip proper looks to arrived later this year.

Sam, do you do 26MHz super low block channels or lower? Not trying to encourage way out of band piracy, but in the mid-nineties before I sold up had some great contacts down there. Ch 19 super low being a calling channel like the 555 but with a lot less craziness. Don't know if it's still a thing, I didn't hear a lot down there last year.

Oh yes i have used 25 & 26 mhz often and sometimes have one radio monitoring .285 but the couple of hours i had free yesterday it was complete silence.

Morning all and hope all’s well and good.
The Sporadic E season has finally sprung and what good propagation there is to be had.Either that or I stood in something in my garden..
All modes all bands and all day,Can’t wait to see the electric bill.
21WR01,13SD/30Y,29SD/EU121,161AT/PVF1,31CI101,1RIR102,14KPI101,3AT282,347CI/SA099 and 22RC102.
Not a bad days QSO’s
Imagine I was home all week she would divorce me..lol
Have a great weekend and even better DX.
Cheers Tom.
26CT4029

Funny prop into 20 div this afternoon, rare to copy north part of Scandinavia from myself living in south Norway but i had osos with the nort part of both Norway Sweden and Finland, even 56 CT 004 Glenn who spoke perfect english ( hi )

20 CT 017 Henning

7/6/2022 


Great to work Tom 26CT4029 today on the short skip 5/9 from my mobile 


Cheers matey 

Craig 26AT126  CT Admin from sunny Yorkshire

Sydthecat wrote:

7/6/2022 


Great to work Tom 26CT4029 today on the short skip 5/9 from my mobile 


Cheers matey 

Craig 26AT126  CT Admin from sunny Yorkshire

Cheers Craig,You were booming into London 5/9+10dB,To be honest the AT Callsign threw me for a minute until I realised who I was actually talking too..lol

Small world mate.

Tom 26CT4029

Lol hey nice one Tom and was a real surprise , I just parked up on my drive after having a local chat with my good friend Paddy 26AT127 , we live in the same town 


A real pleasure matey and if you would like a qsl card then please just drop me a pm 



Cheers 


Craig 73

27.555 usb , clear and clean stations from UK now in to Finland.

glenn dog,I’ll keeping a listen out for you as I’ve spoken to 56,21 and 20 divisions In the last 24 hours.

Cheers Tom.
26CT4029

Bands are rocking today. Looks like it might be a good weekend.