TopBand: AM 4th October (fwd)

[Jeffrey Maass]

It occured after I sent my mesage to Mike that this might be of interest
to the propagation-studying folk on the list as a whole.

I heard no DX at all, although I thought I heard a very weak signal
responding to one CQ at around 0515. No further sign.

73,

Jeff Maass       (jmaass@freenet.columbus.oh.us)      Amateur Radio K8ND
      USPSA/IPSC # L-1192   NROI/CRO          NW of Columbus Ohio
      25000 Members in 2000!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 09:50:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jeffrey Maass <jmaass@freenet.columbus.oh.us>
To: Mike Sloan <gu3whn@guernsey.net>
Subject: Re: TopBand: AM 4th October

On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Mike Sloan wrote:

> Came on this morning between 1830 and 1834 from 0515z to 0630z.  Sunrise
> this morning was at 0615z.  No North American stations heard at all.
> 
> Thought I heard a weak K1 but it could easily have been a DK1......
> 
> G, DJ, S51, SM, OH, I, LX F and EA6 all in evidence with EI joining in
> around 0540z.
> 
> SSB section also very poor.  Heard later that 80m was open to NA.
> 

Mike: I was calling CQ non-stop from 0430Z through 0620 on 1831.0 for the
first hour, then on 1832.0. I was running 1500 watts to an inverted-L, was
listening with a Beverage, and have worked 15-20 Europeans since August 15.

I suspect we can conclude that the and was _dead_ last night, at least on
the EU/NA path! 

I worked KH6CC at 0430Z (I'm in Ohio), and he was a true 579 over an S5
noise level here!

Go figure...

73,

Jeff Maass       (jmaass@freenet.columbus.oh.us)      Amateur Radio K8ND
      USPSA/IPSC # L-1192   NROI/CRO          NW of Columbus Ohio
      25000 Members in 2000!



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