TopBand: JA Sunset QSO

[Garry Shapiro]

Bill Tippett wrote:
> 
> K0HA wrote:
> 
> >...forgetting to check for JA's at their sunset...rare (for me)
> QSO with JA5BJC around his sunset...I could have made to to XZ1N...
> 
>         This is not so unusual during low solar activity.  I recall
> working many JA's from Colorado at their sunset.  I think your
> comment about XZ1N is tongue-in-cheek because I am sure they
> were there, but conditions didn't materialize.  In late October
> 1985 (CQWW SSB), VU4GDG (Andamans which is very near to XZ) came
> on at his sunset and worked stations from Alabama to Washington
> and everywhere in between on SSB no less!  Unfortunately those
> openings are very rare.
> 
>         Now maybe SM5EDX will tell us about hearing (and working?)
> N6LL today on the morning long path at 12 UTC...that's interesting!
> If others noticed some unusual propagation to the USA during the
> contest, I hope they will post their stories.  Learning about
> these paths is one of the benefits contest activity gives us.
> 
>                                         73,  Bill W4ZV

Ray, K6VX called me this afternoon from his QTH in Siskiyou County,
California (near Klamath Falls) to tell me he worked SM5EDX at 14??Z (I
forget the exact time) on 160. He is convinced it was LP, although he
has no directional antennas, RX or TX.
-- 
Garry Shapiro, NI6T
Editor, The DXer
newsletter of the Northern California DX Club

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