Topband: Path FT5XO

[Garry Shapiro]

With far less sophisticated antennas and location, I nonetheless agree with
Bob's observation, below.

I arrived with the party already in full swing. First posting appears to
have been at 1321 from W7IUV but I sauntered by at 1340Z. I listened NW. Not
even having heard a dit from FT5XO since day one, it was shocking to hear a
major pileup of west coast and JA calling a Q5 quarry 11,600 mi away. I
heard Tree's QSO right away and scored cleanly myself at 1353. After my SR
at 1400, I had equal copy NW and SW, moving to SW after SR and lasting until
almost 1425.

At first I feared the JA's would run away with the opening, but the west
coast SR bump apparently made us competitive.

An amazing morning--like a shimmering waterhole in the Namib Desert.

Garry, NI6T

-----Original Message-----
From: topband-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of RMarch
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 6:37 AM
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Topband: Path FT5XO


FT5XO was in for over 1 hour this morning peaking, at my SR, 15 dB over s-9
with the noise floor at S 1 . He started coming from NW and moved more to
SW.  It was a huge opening and he worked lots of West Coast.

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