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Re: Topband: Solar Cycle Fun

To: W7RH <midnight18@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Topband: Solar Cycle Fun
From: VE6WZ_Steve <ve6wz@shaw.ca>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 09:27:02 -0700
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Bob..
Great stuff.
Cyril would be a double mult for me too.
What time did you copy FR4NT??

Lets hope condx can keep rolling for another few weeks at least.

73, de steve ve6wz
> On Nov 4, 2019, at 9:18 AM, W7RH <midnight18@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> Monthly mandatory site maintenance at my remote, you know water the 
> batteries, intruder check and all. I had set the damn clocks back an hour the 
> night before and it was sunset. Time to check out 160m band.
> 
> It's not dark yet and bingo G3PQA and YL2SM in the log, not to mention I 
> heard Cryil FR4NT for the first time in a few years. No QSO but we tried. He 
> would be a double multiplier for me with country and zone! At that point the 
> band went south and I figured I'd take a nap as I've been plagued by a cold.
> 
> I came back a few hours later and called John SM5EDX and F5IN. In da log. A 
> CQ up band netted ON7PQ, SM2CEW, ON8DM, F4HEC, PE5T, and PA3FQA. Not bad with 
> some being new stations worked. With that back to bed. in the morning ZF9CW 
> and 3D2AG worked for the heck of it. All in all not a bad haul.
> 
> This is what a solar minimum should be.
> 
> 73
> 
> Bob, W7RH
> 
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