Topband: XZ0A LP Opening

[Tom Rauch]

> It remains to be seen if the LP correlation to disturbed geomagnetic
> conditions holds, but so far it looks fairly good.  One thing I can
> say is that the extended period of very quiet geomagnetic conditions
> from when they started (14 Jan) until 20 January were terrible for
> this path.

The SW (mornings) and SE (evenings) skew path has held up 
every single day here since they started operating 160 from this 
location. 

AA1K Jon seems to have a different path. VE1ZZ also reports a 
NW / NE path. I wonder if the path changes abruptly or gradually 
skews with latitude changes?

On one very poor day (1/18/00 at 2340Z) they were due east, but 
by 2330 the path shifted SE as signals peaked.

This morning VK3IO was arriving on a NW path, and K3UL was 
hearing him better than I was. Despite the northwest skew for VK, 
the XZ remained skewed from SW.

I'll only post something more when I can hear him some direction 
other than SE (night) or SW (mornings)! He comes in like 
clockwork, except for 1/18/00 at 2300Z.

I think they are hearing the east coast (especially south east) quite 
well considering the distance. They seemed to hear USA callers as 
well or better than stateside heard them today.

73, Tom W8JI
w8ji@contesting.com



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