Actually, I think propagation was pretty good. Kp was 0 much of the
weekend, and the lone two EU stations I worked were loud, if briefly.
Otherwise, propagation was perhaps typically weird for 160: some really
strong signals mixed with inexplicably weak ones from usually loud
stations. All this, of course, detected marginally beneath the
horrendous static crashes from that storm system.
You would think they might schedule the 160 contest in the wintertime.
Oh, wait....
73,
Scott K9MA
On 12/2/2018 04:23, Jim Brown wrote:
On 12/1/2018 6:07 PM, K9MA wrote:
If any of you are wondering why we in the central US seem
particularly deaf this weekend, it's because of the terrific QRN from
a huge storm system.
And also because everyone is listening on their RX antennas directed
to EU. As soon as the EU path closed, a whole new group of east coast
stations started calling be who couldn't me a half hour earlier.
It's a big part of why I consider ARRL 160 and CW 160 a bad joke from
W6. Condx were especially lousy this weekend -- in a one nite effort,
I missed GA and FL except NFL, running legal limit to full size
verticals with decent radial systems, full wavelength beverages, and
even a few dB TX directivity to the east, west, and south. I never
heard EU. It's not only that they didn't hear me -- I didn't hear
them! Best DX was OA, PP, and JA.
73, Jim K9YC
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