Topband: 3D2R 160 meter start time

[Herb Schoenbohm]

Please help me and some other topbanders in the Eastern Caribbean and SA 
to try and beg 3D2R to come up to 1822 a bit earlier than past our 
sunset.  There is a huge difference between East Coast SR and my 
location at 64.7 W. Longitude where I am in full light by 10:00Z.

If you know the call sign of the pilot for this operation of can ask 
them on the air briefly to try earlier on TB I would deeply appreciate 
your efforts.  They may not realize the situation of how further out in 
the time zone is the Eastern Caribbean and the requirement for showing 
up a few minutes earlier if we are ever to have a chance.

Please let me know if there is a pilot contact or if you can get them 
the information so how.  I tried on an 80 meter CW contact by sending TB 
? and got back TB? so i think he thought that was a call sign of a 
caller and not a request for a contact. Again it appears that the TB 
operation is a switch from the 80 meter setup and if the TB appearance 
doesn't here anything popping throught the noise after a few calls, its 
back to 3503.

So please if you know a pilot for this operation, please let me know. I 
still have a chance.


Thanks,

Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
St. Croix, US Virgin Islands