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Re: Topband: Conditions this weekend

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Subject: Re: Topband: Conditions this weekend
From: Tree <tree@kkn.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:37:18 -0800
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On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 05:48:57PM -0600, Bill Hohnstein  K?HA wrote:

> > "I'd like to hear some other opinions of 160M band conditions during the
> > CQ WW CW contest.  I was not impressed here."

I was hiding on 80 meters - playing with my new 4 square and conditions on 
Friday
were very good to Europe - and extremely poor on Saturday.

> I'll let others rate this significance of this, but Friday
> night had a very good Es opening on 6M to both the east and the west from 
> here.  On Saturday, the geomagnetic environment was much worse and there 
> was no Es opening...

Saturday evening was sooo bad, I was wondering if there was an aurora event
going on or not.  I checked out six meters to find it full of signals from 
southern California.  

This connects with a piece of data I heard from someone else (was it KL7RA) 
who says that sometimes sporadic E takes over on the low bands and everything
is coming in at a high angle.  This felt like what was happening on Saturday
night as the east coast stations were all puny weak - AND my 4 square had no
directivity.  W7EW also reported his beverages didn't seem directive during
this time.

> I was making a limited all band effort with preference to the lowest 
> productive
> band at night.  On Saturday night 160M conditions were to the point where much
> of an effort didn't seem warranted...

Or on 80 either.  It wasn't until the band opened to Japan that things started
cooking.  Between 00Z and 0500Z, it was all I could do to work a VE an hour.  
The
best signals were from Africa, but still very weak compared to Friday.  
However, 
the JA signals were just as loud as they were the previous night.

73 Tree N6TR / K7RAT
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