Here are a few important pointers for those who live in the following specific regions and might like to take the challenge of negotiating propagation tomorrow and join the IDX Net on HS4.
The effective SSN has plummeted since yesterday and is expected to reduce further during the duration of the net tomorrow.... Hence, please keep the following in mind.
(1) Operators living in most of Asia, EU, Africa, East-coast of USA, East-coast Canada and central Canada, Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, entire South America except east and central Brazil, and most of Oceania region will have NO PROBLEMS... It should be a cakewalk.
(2) Those in USA and Canada should keep in mind that at the beginning of the net, the east-coast regions will have access. However, with the passage of time, the propagation into states and territories further westward will start opening up. Half way through the net and till the end, the states like Minnesota, Iowa, Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma,, Texas, New Mexico, etc will manage to access the net... Further down the time, towards the end of the net, stations in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona should be able to make it, but the caveat is unlike the rest of the USA operators who need only moderate gain antennas to work comfortably into the net, they will require very high gain antennas like the stacked Yagi.
(3) The USA states of California, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii have practically NO CHANCE due to adverse propagation.
(4) European part of Russia should be able to reach and access the IDX Net during the first half of the session. However, the propagation might close down rapidly for them as the time goes by. Asiatic Russia, Korea, and Japan is not expected to access the net at all.
(5) UK faces a very unique situation vis-a-vis the net-controller's QTH. Almost the entire UK region falls within what is known as the 3rd Skip-zone... This phenomena is a rather unique one. As a consequence, as the earth spins on its axis and New Delhi (VU2NSB QTH) goes into darkness at nightfall, the propagation in the 3rd Skip-zone begins to fail much before the band closes down for the rest of the neighboring regions... Therefore, stations in UK might experience signal loss before the rest of Europe does so.
(6) Finally, our friends in the Tasmania region of Australia might find the conditions rather hostile and unsuitable for almost the entire duration of the net. Although, during the beginning of the net, it will be fine, but as the time progresses the south coast of Australia will begin to loose IDX Net access.... Rest of Australia is expected to come in with strong signals... New Zealand might also lie at the cusp of propagation for a substantial duration of the net. The northern half of New Zealand should do fine but the southern half might struggle.
73, de Basu VU2NSB.