Topband: Contest

[Julius Fazekas]

If it helps, I'm in EM86...

Reciprocal would have definitely been SWEET. I'm envious of all of the stations worked who I never even heard... and some of them were worked by folks in Tennessee, of course it's a long state and what we work in the East is sometimes tough in the West. One of the TCGers reported working multiple JA stations, from the West, only heard one here and didn't have enough umph to make it.

Julius Fazekas
N2WN

Tennessee Contest Group
http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html
http://groups.google.com/group/tcg1?hl=en

Tennessee QSO Party
http://www.tnqp.org/

Elecraft K2/100 #4455
Elecraft K3/100 #366
Elecraft K3/100 #1875


--- On Mon, 2/1/10, Charles W. Shaw <chasshaw at leaco.net> wrote:

> From: Charles W. Shaw <chasshaw at leaco.net>
> Subject: Re: Topband: Contest
> To: topband at contesting.com
> Date: Monday, February 1, 2010, 12:29 PM
> 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.     
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