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This peaks early next week and it can lead to enhanced VHF conditions with signals reflected off ionised meteor trails. The peak is August 1...

Many people like to make VHF contacts in meteor showers. Modes like FT4 and FT8 should be particularly effective I think. Signals are often ...

Southgate News reports on the Perseids Meteor Shower that reaches its peak soon.

See  http://spaceweather.com/ which writes: "This week, Earth is entering a stream of debris from huge comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, so...

In the end I looked on 50.230MHz last night, but only copied G4BAO who was working an OZ. I suspect I was copying John directly and not off...

Overnight I was looking for MS propagated WSPR signals on 10m. There were a few early morning decodes as well as plenty of evidence of MS bu...

Overnight tonight the Perseid meteor shower will peak with some dazzling displays in the early hours of Saturday morning if the sky is clear...

The Perseids meteor shower is supposed to be a strong one peaking this evening. I may run the WSPR software overnight on 10m to see if any b...

I ran WSPR with 5W out (20%) on 10m overnight and was heard twice by F4VNS in JN36hc (see report screen). Although I did not decode anyone ...

Just turned on the FT817 and JT6M mode and copied HB9AGE within the first few seconds on a strong meteor burst. There will be plenty more to...

During the next 24 hours I intend to try WSPR mode beaconing on both 10m and 6m to see if I get any success during the peak of the Perseid...