Topband: Conditions in Indiana

[Michael Tope]

From: "Gary Nichols" <kd9sv at comcast.net>
> Is my radio broke?  I listened for XF4IH from 1045Z until he quit (at
least
> people calling him quit) at about 1145Z and never heard even one dit on
1827
> where he was spotted.  This spotlight propagation is getting to be a bad
> joke...de gary, kd9sv
>

I don't think they are very loud Gary. Here in the Los
Angeles area, they have never been stronger than 569,
and are mostly 449 to 559. According to my map program,
they are only about 1100 miles from here, so you would
expect  them to be S9+ if they had a good TX signal (earlier
today ZS6UT was actually louder here than they have been).
They do seem to hear pretty well, however.

73 de Mike, W4EF.........