Every week I produce the HF propagation report for the RSGB's GB2RS news. This week I thought I would do something a little different. If you have children or grandchildren they might find it interesting. I worked them on 20m SSB on the 14th and they were LOUD! Here is the report:
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This
week we have a slightly different approach to the HF propagation
news. We want to help you and your family contact Santa's elves in
Lapland, Finland.
The
station Oscar Foxtrot Nine X-ray (OF9X) is once again on the air this
Christmas from Santa Claus land in the Arctic Circle.
Twelve
elves are operating OF9X (that is, “Old-Father-Nine-Christmas”)
from the city of Oulu in Finland for the entire month of December
To
work the elves at OF9X, the best starting point is the DX cluster or
reverse beacon network to see where they are operating. They have
been spotted on many bands and modes over the past week.
The
HF predictions suggest seventeen or twenty metres (18MHz or 14MHz)
both give a good possibility of a contact with a probability of
greater than 90% during the hours of daylight. Even 15m may be
possible around midday.
Forty
metres (7MHz) should also give a high probability for the whole 24
hours, while 80m and 160m may also be open during the hours of
darkness in the UK.
But
get in quick, NOAA is predicting unsettled geomagnetic conditions
from December 19th to the 23rd due to a
recurrent coronal hole.
