Topband: Topband Conditions---MEH!

[Jeff Woods]

HL5IVL was on this morning as a matter of fact, calling CQ until about 1300z on 1826 or thereabouts.  He was unable to copy me, unfortunately.  But SM4CAN came booming in last night and we had a good QSO.  


Could be better, but the band isn't dead.  


-Jeff
Cedar Rapids, IA




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> From: Barry N1EU <barry.n1eu at gmail.com>
>To: topBand List <topband at contesting.com> 
>Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 6:16 PM
>Subject: Re: Topband: Topband Conditions---MEH!
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>On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Eddy Swynar <deswynar at xplornet.ca> wrote:
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>> The current state of affairs sure does remind me a lot of the post-Christmas drought on 1.8-MHz last year...only this year the Grinch came early!
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>> John (ON4UN) asserts in his newest edition of LOW-BAND DX'ING that the overall best season for DX on the band probably occurred in the winter of 2008-2009...and I'm inclined to agree  with him 101%...
>>
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>Sure condx are generally down.  But then there's a morning like Dec
>14.  I never heard HL in all of 2008-2009.
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>73,
>Barry N1EU
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