Topband: Different Power Line noise thread

[Herb Schoenbohm]

Julius Fazekas wrote:
> You had good signals all weekend Herb.
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> Very quiet here, little QRN. No noise either... propagation was very one sided, EU was loud, but not hearing our area well.
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Herb replies:
> Very strange TB conditions during CQ WW here Julius with many nice European runs. At times EU signals were stronger than midwest callers on the NNW Beverage! I usually only get one good run per night and for about an hour or less.  I hear EU early in the evening well but call them with no reply and have to wait several hours before I can get their attention.  This weekend as soon as the sun went down I got EY8MM right away, even with a wall of Euro's calling him! But after that I called EA8URL for nearly an hour and he is half the distance and a path all over water. Many other European stations were easily worked in the early evening.  It could be that some have gone to Beverages aimed at NA that allows me to cut through.
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>  But consider this for this contest:  It took me years to get DXCC and WAC on 160 several decades ago.  But this weekend WAC was done in a few hours and 81 countries were worked and that is only 19 down from a 160 meter DXCC in 48 hours!  I think it can be done from here or maybe Jeff, VY2ZM has already done it.  Yet I missed a lot of easy places that I work often like ZL, VK, CE, HK, FG, J6, J7, HH and VP2E.
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73,

Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ