6 Meters Open to the Caribbean

This evening, there has been a good 6 Meter E-skip opening to the Caribbean. I've worked three Puerto Rican stations, 2 Dominican Republic stations, and a US Virgin Islands station since 1730 local this evening. All stations were received with an RST of at least 57. The MFJ-1764 performed poorly this evening, so I immediately switched to the JTB4 vertical and had much better signals. The first station I worked, KP4YI went from S1 to S7 on the FT-897's S-meter.

1933Z - 50.135 USB - KP4YI - Puerto Rico
2250Z - 50.115 USB - HI3/LY3UM - Dominican Republic
2333Z - 50.110 USB - WP4AZT - Puerto Rico
2336Z - 50.140 USB - NP4A - Puerto Rico
2353Z - 50.107 USB - HI3TEJ - Dominican Republic
0025Z - 50.120 USB - KP2BH - US Virgin Islands

Tonight, by the way, was the second time I've worked Ted, HI3TEJ. I just sent off a QSL card to his QSL Manager last week in hopes of eventually getting a QSL card for the contact.

Mac McCormick, KF4LMT
kf4lmt@comcast.net