The 2024 season for me started in March with a fairly regular amount of South American openings, mostly late afternoons. March 15th was the first in the log with LU8EX, but also heard a few others including CX4DA.
This pattern has persisted through most of April, with many days having openings down to South America. Looking through my notes, this is a lot more activity here than last year. Here is a sample of what late April looked like:
April 28:
Worked PY2CC, PY2SRB (new grid)
Worked 4 different CEs including CE2SV
April 29:
Heard 2-3 CE stations
worked LU5FF
worked YV5NEA
worked HI8DAR
also heard CO8LY, 9Y4D, P43A
April 30:
Worked 10 different Brazilian stations a number of new grids
Worked CX7BBR
May 1:
Worked a couple of LUs and CE
Things started to taper off, but I noticed some locals working stations in the mid-west, so turned the beam to 270 degress.......and then.....
For a brief moment I thought this was a bad decode, but then I immediately recognized Tony's callsign. I immediately hit TX and he responded right away with a +11. I completely the QSO super fast, as I always use skip TX1, and I just sat there, nearly shaking in my shoes. FIJI on 6m!!!
