Topband: Boring report - audio edition

[Tree]

Sunspots?  These are not welcome.  Maybe someone ordered them for the ARRL
10 meter contest.  They appear to have had an instant effect on the polar 
paths.

However, last night - E74AW was active and had a monster pileup.  I am sure
many people were hearing him well and didn't end up working him.  However,
I believe that there will be a lot of activity during the next week from
there - so hopefully many more QSOs will take place.

Two of the QSOs I know Dodo made were with W7LR and myself.  These QSOs 
were not easy - and if you are not bandwidth challenged and have about 
six minutes, you can listen to my QSO:

http://www.kkn.net/~tree/160/E74AW_QSO_12-12-2008.mp3

This QSO was made SPLIT - up about 2 khz - at 0445 UTC. 

E74AW's signal was coming in skew path - perhaps around 90 degrees.  

Additionally, I was forwarded another sound file of VY2ZM working some
JAs via long path recently:

http://www.kkn.net/~tree/160/VY2ZMLongpath2008Nov23-2100UTCatJA8ISU.mp3

The CQs in the middle are really amazing.

73 Tree N6TR
Boring, OR