Topband: condx last night

[Shoppa, Tim]

Just to show how good it was... I called CQ on 160M circa 0120Z, and IMMEDIATELY was spotted by many (most? All?) reversebeacon skimmers in Europe. That is unusual for a pipsqueak like me, sometimes I will EVENTUALLY get spotted by a few reversebeacon EU skimmers.

e.g. In ARRL 160 I CQ'ed a bazillion times and was only spotted in EU just a half dozen times.

And of course I had a large number of good QSO's on 160 last night too :-).

80M the night before, in RAEM contest, was very nice as well.

Tim N3QE

-----Original Message-----
From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Braco OE1EMS
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2012 6:16 AM
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Topband: condx last night

Hello Topbanders,

what a X-mas present from TB last night!
I had one of my best openings on TB to NA ever!
Unfortunatly there was not to much acitvity  :( I started around 01:00 and finished around  05:00 and in those 4 hours worked well over 200 Ws and VEs!
(i made few short QSY to 80m to work some DX but in general i spend most of the time on TB) Not to much stations from WC....just to name fews of them,  K7VIC peaked more as S5 on bev when he worked me N9RV was around S4, WB6RSE was only CA i worked and he was around S3 etc etc Generaly signals from east cost and midwest were amazing for long long time!
Some stations from mid west i never heard so loud ever...they moved my meter well over S9 on beverage ?!
It was even easy to work stations with 100W!  
Band was so quite here and i had feeling i was hearing better with my 450m long 305 deg bev as some station heard me with my 4SQ!
Intersting  i worked many many new callsigns and allready got bunch of emails from them, thanking for QSO etc etc.

This was one of the moments we all waiting or looking for :) 

I hope condx gonna stay like this for TBDC.......another wish to Santa ;)

CU next weekend in best TB contest ever!

73s
Braco
E77DX

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