TopBand: Summer DX

[Jon Zaimes]

It's there from the East Coast sometimes too...I recall hearing a UL7 call
CQ for half an hour at our sunset in the All Asia test one August a few
years ago. He peaked 569, but couldn't raise him! 

73/Jon AA1K

At 08:03 AM 8/31/97 -0700, you wrote:
>>Heard UN5J on 29.8.97 at 1341Z calling CQ.  Hardly ever hear that part of
>>the world during the winter, let alone in the summer. 
>
>Re Dan and Tree remarking about this, I recall that back in ancient history,
>when the All Asia cw test was always in late August, and I was a serious
>all-band participant, I often worked UL7GW on 80 at my sunrise for a good
>multiplier.  Also, the first VQ9 I ever worked on 80 was VQ9KK in August,
>1979 at sunrise.  In those days I had a high inverted vee for 80.
>
>So it seems the grayline is there for UN5J on the lower two bands, anyway.
>
>--K6NA 
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