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Re: Topband: VP8STI from Oregon

To: "Tree" <tree@kkn.net>, "160" <topband@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: VP8STI from Oregon
From: "Milt" <miltn5ia@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:21:27 -0700
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Here in SW New Mexico/SE Arizona the signal came right up out of the noise at our local sunset time, 0015Z, and was a workable Q4. There was deep QSB on a relatively short cycle.

At that time he was working EU, so I did not call.

Within 30 minutes the signal had faded to unreadable, then went away and was not heard again the entire, short 5+ hours until the VP8 sunrise.

I did not check any other direction as that path has not shown to be a skewed path for me in the past. Tonight I will pay more attention to other azimuths IF the signal presents itself.

Thanks for all the reports.

73, and good luck de Milt, N5IA, in DM52
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-----Original Message----- From: Tree
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 7:57 AM
To: 160
Subject: Topband: VP8STI from Oregon

Not much was heard at my QTH in Hillsboro.  K7TJR reported hearing them as
well as W7VS - both about 100 miles Southeast of me.  Not sure either one
of them heard them well enough to make a QSO.  W7EW reported hearing
possibly a short burst.

W4ZV reported on the topband chat page that the signal seemed to be coming
in from the North!  For those not familiar with the ON4KST chat page - this
Is a useful tool for collecting data on where the DX is being heard in real
time.  Check out www.on4kst.com.

At any rate - it seemed that they were hearing well and quite a number of
NA stations made it into the log.  Congrats to those who made it - and good
luck to those still in the hunt.

Tree N6TR
Hillsboro, OR (via remote from XE1)

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