HL5IVL was on this morning as a matter of fact, calling CQ until about 1300z on
1826 or thereabouts. He was unable to copy me, unfortunately. But SM4CAN came
booming in last night and we had a good QSO.
Could be better, but the band isn't dead.
-Jeff
Cedar Rapids, IA
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> From: Barry N1EU <barry.n1eu@gmail.com>
>To: topBand List <topband@contesting.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 6:16 PM
>Subject: Re: Topband: Topband Conditions---MEH!
>
>On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca> wrote:
>
>> The current state of affairs sure does remind me a lot of the post-Christmas
>> drought on 1.8-MHz last year...only this year the Grinch came early!
>>
>> John (ON4UN) asserts in his newest edition of LOW-BAND DX'ING that the
>> overall best season for DX on the band probably occurred in the winter of
>> 2008-2009...and I'm inclined to agree with him 101%...
>>
>
>
>Sure condx are generally down. But then there's a morning like Dec
>14. I never heard HL in all of 2008-2009.
>
>73,
>Barry N1EU
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