11m conditions

Great to see everyone enjoying the conditions.  

I missed most of it but was relishing in family visits over the weekend.

Hello, i was away from the radio all weekend, looking to move home again, further north , had the rig on in the car, bad conditions on FM ,

27.555 now a bit more active with EU skip coming in now.

French Dxing crazy amount calling for Japan.

madmax wrote:

I had Very strong skip conditions all day today.
But the evening was incredible, one after another, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay

I would like to add a video to my post from Saturday with a slight delay.
You might find it interesting.
After the three countries I mentioned, Mexico came as well.
I tried several times to reach out, and the other side also made an effort.
But I was so weak that they couldn’t understand my call sign  
A colleague from Frankfurt, who is only 100 km away from me, managed to make contact.
I made a video of how it sounded on my end.


Unfortunately, I hardly have any time for my hobby during the week.

Hello Dejan,

Great video of the qso.The receive on that Yaesu sounds very good.

I know what you mean about not having time in the week. My recent install in my car allows me to have a listen to the bands, on my commute to and from work, plus I can listen in, on my lunch break.

73s John.

Hello, North Finland, Eu skip rolling in on 27.555 usb, mid block active with Fm and USB skip.

Good stuff, Glenn.

73s and good dx, John.

Good morning, 27.555 usb is very quiet , but a sound i think is a over horizon radar signal every few mins, giving a signal 6 to my location ,Oulu, Finland.
Hopefully it will get better later in the day.

20 mins later and France coming in well to North Finland, Radar noise seems to of disappeared totally from 27.555.

I think today will be a limited skip Dxing day, my 27.555 usb has only Div 14 at 12 30 Finnish time.

John123 wrote:

Hello Dejan,
The receive on that Yaesu sounds very good.

That's because all possible filters are enabled.
But there’s one more thing.
Although the Yaesu sounds good, with a quality external speaker it’s even better.
I bought a cheap Bluetooth transmitter on AliExpress and modified the connector to be mono so I could connect it to the radio.

The transmitter is two-way, it can both receive and transmit. In this case, the switch is set to TX.

For external speakers, I use the Anker SoundCore Boost Bluetooth Speaker, which has really high-quality sound.

But you could also use another speaker, like something from JBL; the important thing is that it's of good quality and has great sound.
Theoretically, it could even be connected to a car radio (although I haven't tried it yet).
This combination has a lot of advantages.
For example, I can sit in the kitchen or on the balcony and have a coffee without missing anything (I can take the speakers with me).  

I apologize if I went a bit off-topic with this post.

Good Dxing into UK today SE Coast area, shut down the radio now, ready for tomorrow, trying to manage my daily routine since retirement last week.

Hello Dejan,

That is a great mod. I use one of those speakers for listening to podcasts on my phone.

73s John.

Hello Glenn,

Enjoy your retirement.

73s, John.

Thanks, bit earlier than planned, but going well so far.

Skip report, few stations calling Dx over the North Pole, French and Italian mainly.

Good morning, skip at the moment in North Finland is 1AT977 blasting in on 27.555, Dxing long path.

Skip update, most of the EU now on 27.555 USB at my location.

Ct5220, I can copy you on 27.555, but can not get a 2 way with you

Ct5220, Nice to copy you on 27 555 this afternoon, shame conditions dropped out very fast.

Hello All,

2 div was just starting to come in, on my way home from work this afternoon. A station from Michigan was booming in.

73s John.

Skip info for North Finland at 10.20 am is Corsica coming strong, 1st time in many days that DIV 13 and DIV 14 NO SHOUTING for dx Asia .

Hello , about 1hr later and EU skip rolling in now, no 26d div on 27.555 usb.

Did you notice that Mr. Igor has returned after several months of absence from CB (50KCB001)?
I spoke with him last weekend, and I must say the conversation was extremely polite, without politics or heavy topics, just as it always should be.
This weekend, I heard him again with a very strong signal.

Good morning from Finland, Oulu town, had a good copy on most of the South Sunday morning net in South East of the Uk,

very good skip on most of the 11m band.