Topband: WAS is "Easy?"

[Barry Gross]

On 12/8/06, Ford Peterson <ford at cmgate.com> wrote:
>
> N5IA
> AA1K (with ND in the last minutes)
> K7OK (RI was the holdout this year)
> W5TM (it took 23 hours and 11 minutes to finally work RI)
> K1LT
> K9YC (Worked ND with one hour left)
> K7OX (RI was the holdout)
> N2WN

> I find it interesting that AK seems to be more workable out east than it is
> in the Midwest.  How can this be?  I can only conclude that the Aurora oval
> is a donut shaped feature and that New England can work under the D layer
> and through the hole in the donut.

None of the stations you listed are northeast of Delaware/Ohio,
despite their callsigns.  I doubt AK was very workable up this way.

73,

Barry N1EU
Albany NY