> Pete's question was not specifically about the window. Let's not mix messages.
>
> It was abt a lack of DX activity.
>
Let me give the point of view of one particular DX station. I went into the
shack after supper on Saturday (abt 08z), fully intending to "give it a bash".
I tuned around the band to see what there was to work, but the only station I
could hear was VK2IO trying desperately to work a K9, from whom I could just
hear the occasional dit. Conditions were just completely c--p, so I decided
rather not to waste the night's sleep.
In my short experience on Topband from ZL, I find that our condx at this point
in the solar cycle are generally poorer than enjoyed by VK, and if VK2IO was
struggling, then I would have had even more of a problem. I promise to be more
persistent in the Stew!
73, Greg,
ZL3IX
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