[CQ-Contest] Are the bands dead?

[N5IET Bob]

That's strange Tom:

In North Texas (although I tuned in too late for it to
matter) so I just listened in and tuned around a lot.

I was hearing signals even from Canada between S-8 and
S-45.

In fact my receiver (IC-728) even over loaded a couple of
times because of a guy in Oklahoma with a really strong
signal on 80 and I had to use the PBT and 20db attenuator
to slap it back in line.

Signals all over the bands here.

 73 fer nw,
Bob N5IET

(old calls KE5CTY - WB5ZQU - WY5L)
10X# 37210, FP#-1141, SMIRK#-5177
http://www.qsl.net/ke5cty/
Code may be taking a back seat for now,
but the pioneering spirit that put the code
there in the first place is out front of it all.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Tom Osborne
> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 5:47 PM
> To: CQ-Contest
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Are the bands dead?
> 
> 
> Are the bands completely dead?  I can't hear squat here
in 
> Oregon.  Thought 
> something happened to my antennas but they seem to be
working 
> right.  Looks 
> like the Sprint is gonna be a bust tonight if something
don't 
> get better. 73 Tom W7WHY 
> 
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