The condx to Africa from the East Coast were great too; I worked 9X4WW
(1827.4) and ZS8IR (1829.9) for new ones, as well as S79MX (1832) who was
579 much of the time). Also heard 5X4F (weak though) and JY9QJ --just
briefly for a few minutes at 0350z, when he worked WB9Z. I still need JY. He
dropped out half an hour before his sunrise. 4X4NJ was weaker than usual too
at his sunrise.
I was glad to hear these guys were spreading out a bit -- not all on 1827 as
had been reported the past week. But unfortunately ZS8IR landed right on a
frequency with loud BC harmonics on much of the East Coast (1830). He was
dead zero beat with it. I listened to the frequency for Chris for more than
an hour after he was spotted on Webcluster, but couldn't separate him from
the BC signal till our qSO at 0121z. He briefly peaked up to S6-7! I know if
he had been on another frequency I could have copied him much earlier.
Reminder to DX: 1820, 1825, 1830 and 1840 generally have BC harmonics in the
part of the world that mask weak signals. Best to find a spot in between.
73/Jon AA1K
At 10:39 AM 12/6/96 -0600, you wrote:
>I agree with Jim, K9RJ that the north polar
>path was great Dec. 6. R0/UR8LV zone 18
>was heard from 0430 to after 0630 here and
>worked with 100w. The path seemed selective
>as UA0KAG was much weaker here in KS.
>But OK1DX/mm at "36 N 180W" was loud.
>WWV condx at 0300 Dec 6:
>70/1/0 Very Low/Quiet.
>73, Jon N0JK
>
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