Topband: Sunrise enhancement on 160?

[Larry]

You would hear the same thing at your sunrise but more for Asia and Oceania 
stations. VK6, for example,
becomes workable around sunrise on the East Coast in the Spring and Fall. 
(VK6 is probably the longest
shortpath QTH from NC still on land.) The openings at your sunrise will 
typically be short - perhaps 15
minutes.

73, Larry  W6NWS
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Lunday" <mlunday at nc.rr.com>
To: <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 1:17 AM
Subject: Topband: Sunrise enhancement on 160?


> ON4UN talks about sunrise enhancement at the location of the listener when
> the listener experiences sunrise, although I have never seen this (I am a
> night owl, so I am usually not up for sunrise).
>
> What I have seen before and saw again tonight was signal enhancement of 
> the
> DX station at HIS sunrise.
>
> Happened to me with a UA9 (could hardly believe I was hearing him), 
> happened
> with 4X when I worked him in January, and it happened tonight with G3JMJ 
> at
> his sunrise.  Lots of storm static, not much on the band, but Don was S9+ 
> on
> my inverted L.  Tuned up the band and heard G3PQA also S9+  I have never
> heard EU stations that strong before on 160 (this is my first season on 
> top
> band).   His signal peaked at 0550 UTC, and gradually weakened over the 
> next
> 30 min.  Maybe I need to re-read ON4UN (for like the 5th time).
>
> Mark Lunday, WD4ELG
>
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>
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