I got up early this morning, and so did 30 meters. Take a look at the WSPR signal reports that greeted me (below). My 20 mW DSB signal was making the trip to Norway and the UK through most of the night. And at 0256 W1BW picked it up. A visit to the excellent spaceweather.com website reveals that this is probably the work of sunspot 1057. Rogerio Marcon took this picture of that sunspot on March 24 from his backyard observatory in Brazil. (This and a recent thread started by Chris Trask on QRP-L make me think that I NEED a solar telescope.)
My e-mail inbox also had evidence of good HF conditions. Take a look at this from AA1TJ:IZ0PEC de AA1TJ/QRPp
Dear Fabio,
Thank you for your patience in copying my signal on 20m CW this evening. I had been calling DX stations for several hours but you were the only one to answer. My homebrew rig has an output power of only 10mW (0.010 watts). The distance between us is 8793km; nearly one million km per Watt!. The antenna here is simply an end-fed wire.
I am amazed that you heard my 10mW signal in Rome. It's fantastic!
Again, thank you for patiently listening for my weak signal, OM. It would not have been possible without your very kind efforts.
Ciao,
Mike, AA1TJ
Thank you for your patience in copying my signal on 20m CW this evening. I had been calling DX stations for several hours but you were the only one to answer. My homebrew rig has an output power of only 10mW (0.010 watts). The distance between us is 8793km; nearly one million km per Watt!. The antenna here is simply an end-fed wire.
I am amazed that you heard my 10mW signal in Rome. It's fantastic!
Again, thank you for patiently listening for my weak signal, OM. It would not have been possible without your very kind efforts.
Ciao,
Mike, AA1TJ
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