Roger,
On Monday night I worked about 50 EU station from C6AGU. There was good
activity all around. Last night (Tue) was very noisy here (and probably most
of the SE US) with nasty lightning crashes. It is somewhat similar tonight.
Starting about 2 hours before my sunset, I heard dozens of EU stations
calling the V8.
C6AGU will be on 160 most of the night (both CW and FT8) and we welcome
signal reports as we are testing some new equipment.
CU on 160!
73,
George
AA7JV/C6AGU
On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 20:17:14 -0000
"Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk> wrote:
I've been off the air for a few weeks, due to personal issues . . . but
started coming back on 160m . . .
But it's SO frustrating . . . I'm often seeing my RBN reports from North
American stations peaking 30 to 40 dB above the noise . . . yet I'm lucky to
have 1 or 2 actual QSOs !
I'll hear hundreds of DX stations on the band calling a DX-pedition . . .
but then they'll disappear again. Is that all you want to do, come on the
band to just work ONE station?! I find that ridiculous . . . actually it
makes me very sad for the future of the hobby.
The same goes for contests . . . hundreds of stations on 160m . . . but then
silence the rest of the time !
And all the people that complain that the only stations that seem to be on
are using FT8 . . . well if you actually came on CW, there would be a lot
more activity.
I'm going to suggest what I suggested last winter . . . a Wednesday 160m DX
Activity Night. It worked last year . . . a lot of North American stations
actually came on the band (and that brought lots more Europeans on too)
Saturday Night/Sunday Morning always used to be the main night for 160m DX
contacts too . . . but again the band is very quiet these days (even when
RBN shows there's good propagation)
So I'll be on the band tonight from around 2330Z looking for any contacts .
. .
Roger G3YRO
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