Jul 7, 2022
Focusing on 6 meters during June & July and the majority of activity will be over the weekends. During the week I may check the band occasionally in the 06:00 to 07:30Z window, and from around 11:00Z onwards. Europe is pretty tough, the band typically opens just once or twice a week in that direction and in a very selective manner – meaning only stations from a narrow/small geographical area come through, despite me being heard throughout EU. Always wondered how much the fact that I am positioned on the South side and just under the massive 7000+ meter Himalayan wall, with EU being exactly in the same direction, has to do with this very peculiar propagation phenomena?
QRM continues to be prohibitive for any normal CW/SSB on 20m and below, where even FT8 struggles with signals heavily plagued by the local interference/QRM. Higher bands are surprisingly good with substantially less QRM. Please note that 60m band is not permitted in Nepal.
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