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Cecil
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> On Sep 13, 2018, at 6:28 PM, Bryon Paul Veal NØAH <bryonveal@msn.com> wrote:
>
> What do I have to say to get booted off this thread? 10 meters rules???
>
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> From: Topband <topband-bounces@contesting.com> on behalf of W7RH
> <midnight18@cox.net>
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 2:39:59 PM
> To: Topband
> Subject: Re: Topband: Propagation.
>
> The not so Boring Report. Sorry Tree. Boring is actual a suburb of the
> greater Portland, Gresham area on US 26 on the way to Mt Hood and Bend
> Oregon. Know it well as the area was stomping ground in my youth. I'm
> now an old fart who has been in the desert for over 30 years.
>
> Here is my Propagation perspective from the West:
>
> Except for rare Greyline at sunset propagation it takes several hours
> for the F1 and F2 layers to settle. This early in the season out west
> and you stay up to midnight you might get lucky but usually hear
> nothing. The exception is those to far south and those to far north.
>
> No propagation? 160m is always open somewhere. Sunrise here in the west
> has seen many openings to VK and ZL with Asiatic Russia thrown in. All
> summer there were good openings to South America, Central America and
> occasional African.
>
> While the Midwest guys are enjoying getting into EU, West of the Rockies
> only a few openings occur this early. Guys in the northern western tier
> states and Canada with good RX capabilities can bust through the Auroral
> zone and work into EU. The rest of us will have to be satisfied with
> Mediterranean and North Africa. Thus far I've heard peeps from Wolf
> DF2PY and Len SM7BIC. ON the other hand out of the blue 4U1GSC (Italy)
> had a great signal at their sunrise two nights ago. Unfortunately I was
> dealing with a line of thunderstorms on that path.
>
> In other comments I tend to agree with Merv and Paul on recent comments.
> I get kinda of sensitive once in a while regarding regarding remote
> operations because I'm in a group of a half dozen or so who primary
> station is remote and solely for my use taking years to build and
> optimize not to mention maintain. I don't like being lumped into the
> dialup group.
>
> Not being an avid DX'er card carrying member I'll take my poke. The real
> proof of the pudding is in competitions because your "$10,000 radio" is
> not going to work UN5J on FT8 with a 50cent antenna regardless of how
> much power you run. To satisfy the argument my primary station is a
> lowly TS480. My wife on the other hand would like to think I didn't
> spend as much as I did on land and infrastructure. LOL
>
> The ultimate award is competing on fair grounds with your peers and
> getting nominated to Contesting Hall of Fame. This half deaf old timer
> will never achieve that but still enjoys the competition in Zone 3!
>
> With that in mind. Put on your headphones work them whatever way you
> want because in the end it just doesn't matter to anyone except oneself.
>
> 73, Bob
>
> W7RH
>
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> It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our
> humanity.
>
> Albert Einstein
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