Julius Fazekas wrote:
> You had good signals all weekend Herb.
>
> Very quiet here, little QRN. No noise either... propagation was very one
> sided, EU was loud, but not hearing our area well.
>
>
Herb replies:
> Very strange TB conditions during CQ WW here Julius with many nice European
> runs. At times EU signals were stronger than midwest callers on the NNW
> Beverage! I usually only get one good run per night and for about an hour or
> less. I hear EU early in the evening well but call them with no reply and
> have to wait several hours before I can get their attention. This weekend as
> soon as the sun went down I got EY8MM right away, even with a wall of Euro's
> calling him! But after that I called EA8URL for nearly an hour and he is half
> the distance and a path all over water. Many other European stations were
> easily worked in the early evening. It could be that some have gone to
> Beverages aimed at NA that allows me to cut through.
>
>
> But consider this for this contest: It took me years to get DXCC and WAC on
> 160 several decades ago. But this weekend WAC was done in a few hours and 81
> countries were worked and that is only 19 down from a 160 meter DXCC in 48
> hours! I think it can be done from here or maybe Jeff, VY2ZM has already
> done it. Yet I missed a lot of easy places that I work often like ZL, VK,
> CE, HK, FG, J6, J7, HH and VP2E.
>
73,
Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
_______________________________________________
160 meters is a serious band, it should be treated with respect. - TF4M
|