Topband: Thursday 25th January 2007 Conditions (VE3-Land)

[EP Swynar]

Good Day All,

Well, another great night of operating here in southern Ontario yesterday & early this morning...!

An unsolicited call from SV3RF (my 160 DXCC 98) to me just before bedtime reminded me of the importance of drinking water(!) before retiring...

Sure enough, at a little past local midnight (EST), I awoke to hear OY9JD calling CQ, all alone, on 1821. After several attempts I made the contact, for my 160 DXCC 99! Quite a difference on the frequency compared to when I heard him earlier in the evening, when the North American DX'ers were wide awake & out in full force!.

At this rate, two more glasses of H2O should get me to the magic 160 DXCC 100 marker in no time at all, Hi Hi.

The band seemed to be especially good last night to the former Soviet Union countries --- I heard RX4HZ (very strong) & UR0MC, worked RD3ZC (who called me), as well as RZ1AWT & LY2IJ, with each of the latter two being a very good 579. 

Conditions certainly do seem to making penance for a dreadfully long "dry" spell (no pun intended) back in December, and as long as the water supply here holds up, I hope to take every advantage of it!

~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ