Topband: Nice OC/JA Opening to Midwest

[Jon Zaimes AA1K]

Other than AE9B Tom and W8JI Tom calling CQ and running JA's, the band has been stone dead here the past couple of mornings from 11z till after our sunrise at 1208z.

However, today I stayed up hoping to catch JD1YBJ around his sunset (is he still QRV?). While no sign of him, the band was wide open to G land, and ZL1HY and KH6AT called in with good signals between 0730-0800z. The G's were working ZL1HY too.

73/Jon AA1K

.At 12:15 PM 2/1/04, you wrote:
>Topbander,
>
>The last two mornings have been excellent from Missouri to JA and VK.
>I was able to work 35, JA/VK QSO's this weekend Beginning 10:48Z and last
>QSO in daylight at 13:15Z. Signals varied but strength reached about S7 in
>some cases. My noise was about S5 this morning with the onset of a winter
>storm. Thanks to all the amateurs who were on from JA. I'm usually on during
>the week from about 10:30Z to 11:30Z keep listening and good DX.
>
>Tom
>AE9B
>
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