Dave et all
Friday night was better to be sure than Saturday night. Here in the
deep south we got no sunset or sunrise bump. In fact early in the
evening there were almost no EU to be heard, a few Caribs which were
quickly worked through. I gave up around 0200 and set an alarm for 0500.
Things had picked considerably.
Then this morning there as you noted there was almost no pacific opening
at all , one KH6 and not that strong, No JA's which were loud earlier in
the week.
Friday by comparison EU was loud well above average with many stations
registering an honest S5 to S8 on the BOG ! In all I worked a total of
46 countries on both nights (40 of those on Friday/Night Saturday
Morn..A personal best) . Funny you should mention QSB there was almost
none noted here. The only one I missed that I really wanted was 6V7A,
just didn't have the patience for the rude crowd calling on top of each
other (please dont hijack this thread to play aint it awful with me...
we cant solve that problem here) . The personal best catch for me was
OY9JD for an ATNO . I was surprised and disappointed that 5N7Q or the
energizer bunny 5T5PA was not in fray at all .... on any band?
Dave
NR1DX
Florida
On 11/24/2019 1:46 PM, David Olean wrote:
Hi Top Banders
I was dabbling in the CQ WW contest last night (Nov 24 UT) and noted a
few things that seemed quite different to me here in NE USA. The
normal situation at my sunset occurred. I could hear many many EU
stations but almost none of them could hear me. I am used to that. I
quit and had dinner and spent some quality time with the XYL for the
evening. At about 0300 UT I was QRV again. A storm was blowing
through New England and There was a fair amount of lightning static,
but I was able to call many stations who were very good copy, but
almost always got the impression that I was barely audible with them.
I am running 1300-1400 watts output. Most stations took three or four
calls to get my call correct. A few gave up and had my call wrong but
went on to other callers. Other loud stations CQed in my face. This
was very different from many of my past experiences. I actually went
and checked the electrical passband of my TX antenna to make sure it
was performing normally. (It was) I also kept looking at the wattmeter
to make sure that I was transmitting into the antenna!
I did note that there was deep and rapid QSB over a 30 second period.
I am wondering what the hearing conditions were in Europe Saturday
night on 1.8 MHz. I suspect that noise was a big problem.
Around 1000 UT until my sunrise arpund 1200, I did a fair amount of
listening but heard very little in the way of Pacific DX. I was
operating un assisted so do not know who was QRV, but tuning across
the band produced only two HI stations heard from the Pacific. No KL7,
no islands, and no VK/ZL. A few CQs produced no QSOs for points. Very
disappointing morning.
73
Dave K1WHS
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