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Re: Topband: TK0C skimmer on 160

To: Joel Harrison <w5znjoel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: TK0C skimmer on 160
From: uy0zg via Topband <topband@contesting.com>
Reply-to: uy0zg <uy0zg@mksat.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:32:08 +0200
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Hello Joel

Thanks

We also observed powerful atmospheric discharges in Ukraine. Your station's signal was the only one from North America at the beginning of the test.

There's a good audio recording of your work.


On Saturday evening there were excellent conditions for Oceania and Japa

But there are only seven Japanese in my log....

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Nick, UY0ZG
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Joel Harrison писал(а) 2025-12-01 20:13:
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).

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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
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