[CCF] 160m

[Ari Korhonen]

Suomipojat workki Länsirannikolle!

Ari, OH5DX


> Another fantastic evening on the top band.  The opening made it to Finland
> this time, with an early QSO with OH3XR just after my sunset.  Band seemed
> to lose steam around 0500 however.  Nothing much from the UK, although
> GM0GAV was coming through a little (weaker than a few nights ago).
>
> At my sunrise, the ZL beacon was louder than I have heard it in a long 
> time
> and some CQing produced one answer - but I couldn't get the callsign.  I
> could see their signal using the FFT program (Spectran) clearly.
>
> I heard EA8ZS calling OZ1ABE and was glad he showed up later working guys.
> He had a very nice signal - without the QSB.
>
> So - this makes 4 nights in a row with at least one European QSO. 
> Activity
> seems to be increasing each night.  I know KL7RA will have 160 antenna QRV
> tonight from his new QTH - so there will be someone to keep NL7Z company
> when the band isn't open.
>
> OH3XR was worked at 0234 UTC - then I ate dinner and got back on the band
> at 0337Z in time to work Vlad, UA3BS, quickly followed by LY3UM and 
> SM5EDX.
> HA8BE made it in the log at 0406, but I couldn't ever get HA5JI to be loud
> enough on a QSB peak to call.  DF2PY, OH2BO and a couple more SMs were 
> worked
> from 0400 to 0430 and then the EA8ZS QSO at 0446.  By 0500Z, the band was
> pretty poor - but some of the signals were still coming in weakly.
>
> Most signals seemed to be better on my TX antenna than the beverage 
> pointing
> at 70 degrees.  This suggests they were coming in furthur north.
>
> 73 Tree N6TR/7
> Boring, OR