Hi Joel, nice 160 results! The Caribbean had much better EU conditions than up here in Virginia. Getting back to my original post: TK sunrise is about 0630z, but I was getting TK0C-5 spots almost 2 hours after their sunrise. That just seemed weird unless they were repeating spots from other skimmers in EU?
Regards , Kenny K2KW > On Dec 1, 2025, at 1:13 PM, Joel Harrison <w5znjoel@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Nick, > > I was the 160 meter op at ZF5T. Thanks for the Q and glad to put you in our > log. > > Condx from ZF Friday evening to EU were very gud but around 0330z to 0400z > the band went pretty much dead to EU. There was no EU SR peak. > > Saturday around 0130z we had horrible QRN from a storm somewhere in the > Caribbean that made copy on 160 and 80 near impossible. It calmed down around > 0300z but condx were very bad to EU and sigs weak. > > To the west our furthest contact was with KH6J and one other station on > Hawaii but that was it. No JA’s or anything else. We had JA’s spotted on the > cluster but they were being picked up by a JA skimmer. > > Overall it was a good weekend but could have been great with some better > condx and no QRN during the Saturday evening session. We finished with 810 > Q’s, 18 Zones, and 75 countries on 160 from ZF for the weekend. > > 73 Joel W5ZN / ZF2ZN > >> On Nov 30, 2025, at 8:02 AM, uy0zg via Topband <topband@contesting.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hello >> >> >> From Saturday to Sunday (23:31 - 00:09 UTC) I managed to find a window to >> the USA and Canada. >> >> WKD 12 stations (10 QSOs on CQ). >> >> --- >> Nick, UY0ZG >> http://www.topband.in.ua >> >> Kenny Silverman писал(а) 2025-11-29 17:08: >>> I (and others) were getting spotted hours after sunrise in TK. Were they >>> forwarding spots from other skimmers in western EU? >>> Let’s hope conditions are better tonight! It was amazing to hear EU very >>> well all night , but even the USA big guns weren’t being heard in EU. >>> Regards , Kenny K2KW >>> _________________ >>> Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector >> >> _________________ >> Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector |
