Did work an F5 last night, 0445z on 160m FT8.
Have not heard EU on CW lately, but only briefly tune 160m.
Ray,
N6VR, W7YA on FT8
Arizona
On Fri, Feb 24, 2023, 3:39 AM Henk PA5KT via Topband <topband@contesting.com>
wrote:
> Roger,
>
> It is a matter of definition of what you call Good conditions.
>
> To me the average conditions are if I hear eastern states in the VE1,
> VE2, W1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 call areas..
>
> Conditions are good when I also hear VE3, W0, W4, W5.
>
> Conditions are very good if I can hear all of North America.
>
> During the CQ160 contest conditions were above average as I heard all
> east coast states and some Midwest.
>
> This weekend I only heard VE1, VE2, eastern VE3, W1, W2, W3 and NC and
> FL. To me that qualifies as bad.
>
> It looks like the polar activity absorbed everything west of W3.
> Additional to that signals were below average.
>
> 73 Henk PA5KT
>
> Op 23-2-2023 om 10:21 schreef Roger Kennedy:
> >
> > It's always fascinating how very localised DX Propagation can be on Top
> > Band, I noted how several Europeans said that propagation to NA was very
> > poor over the weekend, whereas I found it pretty good.
> >
> > 73 Roger G3YRO
> >
> >
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