[600MRG] 630M Season Not Over Yet: TA time cluster 630m. TA 2200m.

[James Hollander]

Congratulations to all involved in last night's trans-atlantic (TA) WSPR activity!   73,  Jim H  W5EST

On 630m, the action between  New England and EU/UK was relatively clustered in time. Reception moved westward from Germany to France and then to England and Spain.

In a 630m propagation event spanning one-half hour 0358-0428Z only, German stations DH5RAE and DJ0ABR derived all their WSPR decodes of WG2XKA and WG2XPJ.   Both DH5RAE and DJ0ABR registered some peaking about 0410Z in WG2XKA SNRs.  A total of 8 USA station decodes registered in Germany--3 at DH5RAE and 5 at DJ0ABR.  Two-way pairing of decodes between WG2XKA and DH5RAE included 0414Z DH5RAE into WG2XKA, bracketed by 0410 and 0418 decodes of WG2XKA at DH5RAE. 

A little later at 0428 and 0436Z, a pair of WG2XKA decodes registered in France at F1AFJ.

Still later at 0436-0518Z, G3XKR in southwest UK had four WG2XKA decodes with no obvious SNR peaking.

0418-0526Z marked a more spread-out event set of 6 decodes of WG2XKA into Spain's EA1FAQ.  These decodes lacked any obvious SNR peak too. The time-spreading suggests a North-South aspect to this 630m event as well. 

SFI: 122 A-index: 13K-Index: 2 
No unusual SFI departures have occurred, with SFI in a range120-124 last four days  April 1-4.
 http://www.spaceweather.ca/solarflux/sx-5-flux-eng.php

Geomagnetic index and aurora don’t look unusual. http://www.hamqsl.com/solar3.html 

A full moon and a lunar eclipse occurred today April 4: start 0901z, to 1200z total, to 1459Z end 
http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/total-lunar-eclipse.html
 
2200m showed unusual activity last night including a trans-atlantic crossing from Germany to USA. 
LF: W1TAG hearing DK7FC 137.610 0030-0400z 6 spots -36to -38dB. 
         UA4WPF 137.616 2300, 2346z into EW6BN, G3XKR, RN3AGC, SM2DJK,SP5XSB, SV8RV-1, SV8RV-4, UA0SNV, UW8SM. 

160m had a good night last night. 160m has shown several good nights recently involving trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic decodes.
160m: VK7DIK/P hearing K3KQV.  VK2KRR hearing K3KQV, K9AN, K9PAW, KL7L,VE6OG, WB5WPA. K3KQV into DK6UG, F59706, F6GEJ, G0KTN, G4BOO, G4PMB,HA5EAR, IK1NET, S57MK, SM6WZI. N2NOM hearing G4BOO.  N2NOM into DO4HRE, F59706,G4BOO. K9AN KC9NBV into F59706.  K9PAWhearing RJ5DOC, K9PAW into F59706.