Topband: Band condx last night

[Bill Tippett]

W8UVZ:

 > These times won't last forever.

         Very true.  A few years from now contacts from NA to z18/19 
or EU to z31/32 will be extremely rare instead of "routine" as they are now.

         Yesterday morning RZ0SR (Irkutsk 357 @ degrees) was coming 
in the best I've ever heard him.  Last night RW0BG (Norilsk @ 4 
degrees) and RZ9DX/0 (Dikson Island @ 6 degrees) worked several 
stations across NA.  This morning SM2CEW and N1BUG heard each other 
at different times (no QSO) around Paul's 1122z sunrise in 
Maine.  These stations were all coming in best due North with the 
very slow QSB typical of Polar paths (BTW magnetic north from here is 
353 degrees).  And of course EU is working all over the Pacific with 
relative ease (3D20CR, TX5SPA, 3D2KJ, TX3A, many KH6s, etc).

         Several Russian stations in UA3/4/9 have completed or are 
very close to completing their WAS on 160.  Special congrats to Gena 
UA9MA for making the first WAS from Zone 17.  Amazing times 
indeed!  We may be remembering these conditions for decades into the 
future.  Enjoy while you can.

                                         73,  Bill  W4ZV