TopBand: boring balloon report

[Phil Clements]

At 12:00 PM 3/10/98 -0600, you wrote:
>>The band this morning was very quiet here.  The ZL beacons were
>very strong, as were about 5 differnet fishing nets.  However,
>there wasn't any activity except for myself and W6FSJ calling 
>CQ. This was just before sunrise from 1415Z to 1440Z.
>
>Quiet this morning from 1115 - 1245 utc here in Kansas as well. The
>big winter storm finally took its wind east and could deploy the balloon
>antenna. Had hoped N6MZ/KH9 would make an encore appearance today. 
>JA1JRK spotted them at 1100 on 1.832.6 but...
>73,
>Jon N0JK


He was there this morning for over an hour, Jon. Nice signal in Texas.
He was calling and calling for W1JR, ignoring the pile. I think maybe
W8JI got in the log...Tom was persistant!

(((73)))

Phil, K5PC

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