Topband: VS6DO

[Bob Eldridge]

>Paul had a remarkable signal, but suffered from big city noise level. His
>noise might have been part of the problem.

But sometimes Paul pounced. One morning well after sunrise I was chatting 
with a W6 about that morning's DX, and Paul broke us on ssb and said we 
were both S9+. He was too for a few minutes.
The W6 and I made a sked for the same day at local noon and had a QSO.
That was probably in the early 80's, when we had +- sunrise openings to VK 
just about every day, often for more than an hour. Not as reliable as the 
current W8JI/VK3ZL daily effort, but comfortable roundtable chats.
It was even better ten years later - and I guess we are just heading into 
another spell of the same.

Bob VE7BS