The month got off to a good start, with a change of band and mode. I had decided to try FT4 and 24 MHz for a change. This seemed to be a good move with some serious DX appearing. My impression is that this band is populated by some serious and sensible operators. This month was also the one with all Brazil activity, celebrating the 92nd anniversary of the national club. By the 9th I had worked 14 of their 29 stations, and by the end of the month all but 5.
Bob Mcloud, VP8LP, popped up as did JS6RRR from Okinawa, ZD7DF, ZB2MD, and Steve GJ6WRI from Jersey.
For some strange reason Africa has been really active this month with ZS6, TJ1, CN8, TT1, V51, TZ1, TL8, TY5, D2, 5Z4, 7X2KF, TU5MZ, TJ1GD, J51A, all in my log.
There has been lots of activity from South America and the West Indies and even better, some Oceania. My best DX this month included FK8HA from French Polynesia and DU2W from the Philippines. To finish off the month I managed KL5EX in Fairbanks Alaska, HP1RY in Panama, and HC5RF in Equador.
Our old friend RI0SP is still floating about near the North Pole, this time in grid HR97.
Thanks to Berni's encouragement I am trying to get a new mode to work. FT2. This is twice as quick as FT4 and 8 times faster than FT8. The developers are issuing new variants faster than I can download them! More of this next month!
And as if there isn't enough going on, I have attached a diploma celebrating the 46th anniversary of the Andalucia hams.
Cheers & Good DX,
Chris, G4ZCS
