2024 10m QRSS Challenge: - VA3RYV 6th Feb

As part of a challenge for 2024, I've decided to see how many QRSS signals I could capture on the 28 MHz band during the year. On the 6th of February, I managed to get a good capture of VA3RYV in Ontario, Canada.

The QRSS signal of VA3RYV can be seen in the image above. It starts with a 'Slow Hell' image of the VA3RYV callsign followed by the signal in morse code. The whole sequence lasted about 6-minutes.

Wes, VA3RYV was using 100-milliwatts output power into a have-wave dipole about 15m above ground level. The path length was around 5,255kms and it's likely it was two F2 layer hops.

In summary... That brings the QRSS tally so far for 2024 up to 10-callsigns & 6 DXCC.

1) 08 Jan 2024: VE1VDM - DXCC #1
2) 10 Jan 2024: VA1VM
3) 15th Jan 2024: G0MBA - DXCC #2
4) 15th Jan 2024: G0PKT
5) 15th Jan 2024: AE0V - DXCC #3
6) 16th Jan 2024: RD4HU - DXCC #4
7) 16th Jan 2024: W1BW
8) 17th Jan 2024: OH5KUY - DXCC #5
9) 18th Jan 2024: TF3HZ - DXCC #6

10) 6th Feb 2024: VA3RYV