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[robert briggs]

I have not been able to get on air a lot due to other 
commitments.However I have tried to keep an ear on dx whenever possible 
and note a good bit of activity.
Notable is  excellent signals from 9M6NA and JD1BME with plenty of 
stations calling them.I had a run of EU stations on the 3/01/07 and 
again this morning with about a dozen contacts,a mixed bag from G3 
OH,OZ1 DL,YB1 S52,OK2,UX etc and all EU signals have been 56/579 quite 
good.I haven't had the opportunity to be on every morning for EU but I 
will try as often as I can through to April if the DX season stays good.
I notice that most of my EU DX is best using the 90 foot inverted V near 
sunrise rather than the little vertical.The few times I have been 
available the band has been open with good signals to well after my sunrise.
Conditions back to the US are probably ok but we have had very bad 
summer qrn and I have been either absent or too tired to stay up late to 
catch much DX.Daylight saving messes things up also.
I look forward to getting back to a normal DX routine to the US etc as 
soon as the bushfire crisis eases in VK3.Good Dxing to you all.
73...Bob VK3ZL..