Topband: arizona report

[Michael Tope]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Brown" <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: "TopBand List" <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 7:47 AM
Subject: Re: Topband: arizona report


> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:33:48 -0800, Chortek, Robert L wrote:
> 
>>Has anyone else living on a suburban lot in California had good
>>conditions? Things have not been good here.
> 
> I'm near Santa Cruz on 8.5 acres with vertical, a dipole, and  
> Beverages (one aimed at EU), and the only signal I've EVER heard 
> from EU is DL2PY. He was there again last night around 9 pm PST, and 
> some western US stations were calling. I worked him a month or so 
> ago, the other time I heard him.  I also heard strong signals from  
> VY2, KP2, KP4, and PJ2 last night, all strong enough to work. 
> 
> I like to compare DX propagation on 160 to the tiny beams of light 
> peeking through a very dark and stormy sky, moving as the clouds 
> move across the sky. Each part of the earth may be illuminated by 
> propagation for only 10-20 minutes, and it can be VERY spotty. 
> 
> 73,
> 
> Jim K9YC
> 

This distance between Arizona and California doesn't seem like 
much relative to Europe, but in my experience it makes a huge 
difference. I think I've heard 3 Euros Q5 from my city lot in Los
Angeles this season (DF2PY, G3JMJ, and F5IN). Still too PW
to get a contact (need mas radials and mas power) -:)-:)

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