On thursday night conditions here in w1 land were outstanding! J28MD (cw) and
5V7RU (ft8) got in the log and I heard HS0ZOY (ft8) at his SR at -5 for about 5
minutes. first HS I have ever heard.
hope i get a chance with T88.
> On Nov 5, 2022, at 12:00 PM, David Raymond <daraymond@iowatelecom.net> wrote:
>
> Greetings Topbanders. . .
>
> I've spent a considerable amount of time on watch this past week for J28MD on
> Topband (CW). While they've spent a fair amount of time on TB I haven't yet
> had success yet in spite of my ongoing efforts. I believe it was this past
> Tuesday night when Joel, W5ZN, said they appeared briefly out of the noise
> (about 10 minutes or so and did have success with his BSEF-8 and Hi-Z 8
> arrays in diversity) then disappeared the rest of the evening. Wednesday
> night's opening to NA was much longer starting on the East coast and slowly
> sweeping westward with quite a few NA making it in the log (EC + 5's, 8's, &
> 9s', VE). Unfortunately the prop just never quite made it this far west.
> They barely peaked out of the noise here in Iowa Wednesday evening (NA time)
> just enough to get me excited and dump my call a few times hoping for even a
> marginal QSO. . . but no cigar. It's a little frustrating to see that they
> always QRT about 30 minutes or so prior to their SR but they get credit for
> being on faithfully on CW and FT8 as well. I know they're getting close to
> wrapping up but hopefully they'll be on (CW) again this evening.
>
> It's been good to have some DX operations QRV and bring some much needed life
> to TB (which sure hasn't had much). . .TY0, 5V, and now J28, A3, and T88.
> The prop has been very poor. CQing here in the evening brings no DX
> responses and only a handful of EU EBN hits so far this season. Thankfully
> mornings have activity from our very stalwart VK friends (VK3HJ, VK2WF,
> VK6GX, VK6IR, VK6LW, others) but only a handful of JA QSOs so far this season
> (8 to be exact). JA1LZR gets kudos for being QRV almost every morning (NA
> time), but without much prop, I think only limited success. I have yet to
> hit the VK4CT RBN CQing here in the mornings. I don't think this is totally
> attributable to the increased SFI. . . prop from here was only marginally
> better two seasons ago when the SFI was very low.
>
> All that said, I encourage everyone to get on and make some noise.
>
> 73. . . Dave, W0FLS (in Iowa)
>
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