QSL Kenny.
Of course I can only speak of action in ZF this weekend but I was hearing EU 1
to 1.5 hours before SS. It was, obviously, the big gun stations but good copy.
Regarding TK0C I obviously have no data to support any conclusion.
Your signal was continuously very strong in ZF regardless of the time I “tuned
by”.
73 Joel ZF2ZN
> On Dec 1, 2025, at 1:32 PM, Kenny Silverman <kenny.k2kw@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> <image.png>
>
>
> 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
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