Topband: 160m twds western US

[Dr .Wolf Ostwald]

Hello reflectees !
This morning we had the first decent signal levels from the far west since the memorable opening on Dec 12th.
K0RF sent a solid 579 sig into EU, followed by a few midwest stations,which were rather weak considered their geographical advantage. Then N7JW ran a huge EU-pile,he sure was about 5 S units better than the previous day,which explains the many "customers" he had 2day.
Then W6RJ made an appearance from CA -BIG surprise !
Finally the path was open from the southern end of the rockies in NM ( N7KA ) up to the northern end in Alberta ( VE6WZ ) . I guess a many folks missed this event due to holidays.Summary is, that the eastcoast was underrepresented and that the dominant signal path seemed to be crossing Hudson Bay over the continent into the Pacific. Lets hope to get some more good dx for the change of the year ! hny 2k4 to everyone on "The" band !
de wolf   df2py