A few Russian stations using the R18 prefix for a special event operation, signals were not very strong this afternoon, at best 579. I saw two spots of stations on the West Coast working an AP2 station, only two contacts were listed. This was in the phone band at 14.180Khz around 2000Z. Normally, there is no skip to that part of the world at this location at the time I mentioned. I checked 180 and heard nothing, not even a peep, so guess for the few contacts this station made it was all West Coast.
Only other action is a Maritime Mobile is stirring up some action with the grid chase going on, otherwise Maritime Mobiles do not count for any country. That is it, really poor band conditions, nothing much else going on these days.
