There was a decent opening from here in Southern California to Europe on
Saturday night around 0500 UTC that lasted approximately two and a half
hours. Over the course of the opening, I heard stations from 9A, OM, YU,
S5, DL, PA, G, GW, E7, and GJ. I was able make QSOs with DL and GJ (and
I had a maybe with E7). I was hoping that similar circumstances would
materialize for the Sunday morning opening to Asia. When I heard K0DI in
Florida work a JA station, I became even more convinced that we were in
for a JA bonanza later in the morning. Unfortunately it was a huge bust.
It was as if someone dropped a huge D-layer cloud over Japan. Strangely
enough, several BY stations seemed to be unaffected by the poor
propagation, in particular, BY4SZ who had a massive signal in Southern
California. Unfortunately, he was hearing impaired. I think W6YA might
have gotten through to him, but I certainly didn't. I heard one DU
station, but he also couldn't hear me.
Never take propagation from granted on Topband :-)
73, Mike W4EF..........
On 1/29/2023 12:51 PM, Tree wrote:
Could have been band conditions not working very well. Felt like a thick
cold blanket was on top of the band last night.
This morning - normally very loud stations in MT were just regular signals
- not much stronger than BY4SZ.
Only managed one JA QSO with JH4UYB this morning. JA3YBK could not hear
me. Band was quiet - but very attenuated.
Surprised however to work 3W1T right at sunrise and 4F2KWT before that.
Heard a few other DU's but they were not hearing me.
Tree N6TR / K7RAT
On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 12:37 PM Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
wrote:
On 1/29/2023 9:25 AM, W3HKK@roadrunner.com wrote:
had to run the 52' vertical- 0.25 wave 160m
INV-L against a single ground rod. But it works quite well, even so.
It wasn't "working quite well" when you were buried in my noise last
night. We worked, but it wasn't easy. Thanks for the QSO.
73, Jim K9YC
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