Topband: XZ from W5 (deep in Dixie)

[Gary E. Jones]

There has virtually been NO propagation/signals from close to the Gulf 
of Mexico, and K5JZ or I have been listening most days with no joy at 
all....  until the 21, 22, and 23. Signals have still been bad, but they 
have been there. Signals on the 22nd and 23rd have been the best. K5JZ 
is copying them Q5 and S3 when their signal is good on a windom, and I 
am getting them about the same 50 miles north (on a set of five 
Beverages). Signals have _never_ been above a 449 or 459 here so we are 
getting no periods of loud signal strength such as being reported 
elsewhere. Signals have a deep QSB, up for maybe a minute, then down for 
several minutes, and alternating. On 1/23 (Sunday) morning, their 
signals were clearly best on my NW Beverage, with nothing on the SW 
Beverage at 11:30 - 12:00. 270 degree. The West Beverage always 
less-good than NW this morning (all Beverages are 590 feet). Their 
signal is peaking about 45 minutes to an hour before sunrise, and then 
largely gone just before sunrise. No sunrise peak at all here.


We were having a big storm here in Mississippi so lots of QRN even on 
the Beverages. Heard K5UR get through from Arkansas and several others, 
but no joy here either for K5JZ or myself.

No one said this was going to be easy.....

                                                                         =
                   Gary    W5FI



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