Topband: Contest

[Charles W. Shaw]

At 13:17 2/1/2010, Julius Fazekas wrote:
>Propagation... Well at least that's what I hope it is. EU was 
>pounding in here Friday night early, but from the sounds of it, even 
>the Top Band heavies were having some difficulty making the contact. 
>Funny, later in the evening, particularly during the EU SR period, 
>their signals were way down (compared to our SS) but QSOs were much 
>easier... well at least in Tennessee,
N5UL says:
Yes!  I was hearing eastern Europe very well in SE New Mexico 2+ 
hours before my sunset Friday.  This prompted me to make this list 
Saturday afternoon:
         2305z  OM7M     569
         2314   CT3FN    569
         2314   YU1LA    559
         2317   CT3KN    559
         2332   S52AW    559
         2334   CN2R     559
         2335   OL0W     559
         2338   CR2X     579
         2340   OM8A     589
         2343   HG8DX    549
         2350   HG3DX    549
My sunset was about 0020z !
I called some of these, but don't remember being able to work any of 
them at these times. Some were worked later in the evening (and a few 
had been the night before).  The pipe was filling in EU and emptying 
in the SW USA.  Wasn't working well going the other way at all, and I 
didn't hear many eastern USA calling the DX either.  It would have 
been great if the receiving and sending had REALLY been reciprocal!!

Charles - N5UL
Hobbs, NM (southeast corner)

P.S.   I am reminded that it would be nice to know a closer location 
of everyone reporting here and on 3830.  I resolve to be more 
specific than just NM in the future.  And CA is an even larger place 
with wide differences in propagation.     
-------------- next part --------------

No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com 
Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2660 - Release Date: 01/31/10 19:35:00