What a roller coaster week. Monday and Tuesday poor, Wednesday OK, Thursday poor, Friday OK. Saturday poor and Sunday really full steam ahead. 5I3B and 5I3W (Tanzania) were early week sought after stations then LZ4TX (Bulgaria) at the weekend, a cluster of beacons on Thursday and CA4PSH (Chile) on Friday.
I’m at a loss as to why LZ4TX was so popular, his listing in QRZ.COM is very scanty. Not so for CA4PSH. His QRZ page is most excel
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THIS WEEK'S CONTES August 30 - September 6, 2021
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THIS WEEK'S CONTESTS:
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Worldwide Sideband Activity Contest: 0100Z-0159Z, Aug 31
Geographic Focus: Worldwide
Participation: Worldwide
Mode: SSB
Bands: 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10, 6m
Classes: Single Op (QRP/Low/High)
Overlay: Youth (26 years old or younger)
Youth YL (female 26 years old or younger)
YL (female older than 26 years
 
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
DL - Special callsign DG60TRIPS will be active on 1-30 September, in
remembrance of Wolfgang von Trips, the German Formula
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SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP035
ARLP035 Propagation de K7RA
ZCZC AP35
QST de W1AW
Propagation Forecast Bulletin 35 ARLP035
From Tad Cook, K7RA
Seattle, WA August 27, 2021
To all radio amateurs
SB PROP ARL ARLP035
ARLP035 Propagation de K7RA
Sun watchers saw no days without sunspots this week. Average daily
sunspot numbers rose from 17.7 last week to 21.7 this reporting
week, August 19 through 25.
Average daily solar flux increased from 73.8 to 78.5.
Geomagnetic indicators were quiet, with average daily planetary A
index declining from 6.1 to 4.7, and average daily middle latitude A
index dropping from 7.6 to 5.7.
We are less than one month away from the Northern Hemisphere
autumnal equinox, on Wednesday, September 22, 2021. Both
hemispheres will be bathed in equal measures of solar radiation,
always a positive for HF p
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