Topband: season

[W7lr@aol.com]

This wont be news to W8JI with his great station and a year long season.

There are other factors besides propagation, qrn, putting out Beverages - one 
being zzz.  It has been hot here, about 100 F nearly every day with 
thunderstorms and lightning and forest fires, so energy has been low and qrn 
high.  With the low energy and getting more sleep (zzz) it hasnt been 
productive for 160.

Our sunrise here in Montana is now about 6 am (1200z) so the outlook for 160 
dx is getting better.  This morning I decided to try this theory and with a 
cup of coffee started listening around 5:30 am. (1130z).  No VK, no JA.  Well 
lets try a cq dx.  It worked!
Good signals and qsos with VK3XU and VK3ZL. (1148 to 1155z).  Some qrn but 
not bad.

The season has begun.  73 Bob W7LR



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