Here in southwest New Mexico, we received a lump of coal !
You and F6ARC were the only EU stations heard for more than a few
moments on a 600 foot beverage. Your signal varied from inaudible to
559. N5RZ, located 400 miles east of me, reported that you peaked S9. It
was very discouraging when the east coast USA skimmers were hearing the
Europeans 20 dB louder than they were hearing me.
The band seemed way down this morning. Even NH7O was weak. There was a
brief lifting of the shroud at sunrise, with a good signal from JT5DX,
who seems to hear very well.
73 and MX to all !
Steve, N2IC
On 12/24/2012 04:15 AM, Braco OE1EMS wrote:
Hello Topbanders,
what a X-mas present from TB last night!
I had one of my best openings on TB to NA ever!
Unfortunatly there was not to much acitvity :(
I started around 01:00 and finished around 05:00
and in those 4 hours worked well over 200 Ws and VEs!
(i made few short QSY to 80m to work some DX but in general i spend
most of the time on TB)
Not to much stations from WC....just to name fews of them, K7VIC peaked more
as S5
on bev when he worked me N9RV was around S4, WB6RSE was only CA i worked
and he was around S3 etc etc
Generaly signals from east cost and midwest were amazing for long long time!
Some stations from mid west i never heard so loud ever...they moved my meter
well over S9 on beverage ?!
It was even easy to work stations with 100W!
Band was so quite here and i had feeling i was hearing
better with my 450m long 305 deg bev as some station heard
me with my 4SQ!
Intersting i worked many many new callsigns and allready got bunch
of emails from them, thanking for QSO etc etc.
This was one of the moments we all waiting or looking for :)
I hope condx gonna stay like this for TBDC.......another wish to Santa ;)
CU next weekend in best TB contest ever!
73s
Braco
E77DX
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