Topband: Long Path Band Condx and Over the Pole on 160M

[K1ZM at aol.com]

GM

So far this Winter season, we have had some very interesting long path 
conditions around 1100z each morning (to things like BU2AQ, XU7ACY, 9M2AX, 
DU1/JJ5GMJ, HL5IVL)) - and in the afternoons/early evenings 9M2AX, YC0LOW, 
XU7ACY, and quite a few JA's including JA8ISU/7J4AAL/JA5AQC have been able to be 
worked around JA sunrise (2120-2215z) on the SE path.  This latter stuff is 
primarily a Northeast/New England event limited by a very narrow windiw of 
overlapping darkness in the Northern Hemisphere with Japan that occurs each 
year from about Dec 10 - Jan 10th only..

Over the pole activity has been down but T88OW and H44KJ were good copy on 
better days - which have kept up some real interest in the band.

Webmaster WW2DX recently added some new audio clips of some of this stuff 
to my website at http://www.VY2ZM.com and you can listen in if interested to 
the newer stuff at the audio clips/sound bites tab on the website.

Let's hope for continued good condx on Topband as even though we are at or 
vy near a solar maxima, DX'ing has been remarkably good on Topband.  With 
3C0 soon to come on the air there has been alot to go after.

Good Dx to all - CU on the band.

73 JEFF  VY2ZM


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