Heard this morning (14/10) between 0620 and 0630 UTC on 7.173 SSB.
F5PAU in western France working easily
06:20 UTC
ZL4BC - 5-9 reports exchanged
VK4SX - 5-9 reports exchanged
VK2GJC - 5-6 reports exchanged
VK2UXO - 5-8 reports exchanged
VK2MJW - 5-6/7 reports exchanged
06:30 UTC
Frank commented that the low noise level on 40m compared to the last few days was a great help.
If these conditions stay as they are until Saturday (unfortunately not so likely as conditions are changing a lot at the moment) - we may indeed get some UK/EU - VK/ZL contacts - maybe only Chaser to Activator but intercontinental contacts. It looks like our activation times planned are about right. A little earlier for EU-ZL a little later for UK-VK.
Frank was running a 600w PA into a rotatable dipole antenna at 22m AGL.
73 Ed.