Topband: Solar Activity & Topband

[jh-mty at sbcglobal.net]

RIght on, Jim!   Working a couple of hours casually 100W /M (in the minivan) here in Reno....worked East Coast from here before, hopefully again.   73, my friend, John W6UQZ

--- On Sat, 1/28/12, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:


From: Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Solar Activity & Topband
To: topband at contesting.com
Date: Saturday, January 28, 2012, 5:34 PM


On 1/28/2012 3:32 PM, Don Kirk wrote:
>    California was decent, but very little going up the West Coast into Oregon, Washington,

That's because this is an east coast contest. Thanks to scoring rules, 
it's not much fun from west of the Rockies.

I was on for a couple of hours early evening my time, and again for an 
hour beginning around 3:30 am my time. In protest of those lousy scoring 
rules, I'm running 100W. During that last hour, I worked several NC, two 
FL, two MA, RI, NH, two VA, two PA, VE2, five VE3, two TN (including old 
friend N2WN), two GA, two AL, MI, OH, IN, IL, WI, AR, and IA.

Some alligators, most notably KV5Y who was a real S9, and who I must 
have called a dozen times on several S&P runs.  Worked a bunch of guys 
who were at the edge of my noise, roughly S2.

I'll be trying again for a few hours tonight, with a goal of WAS with 100W.

73, Jim K9YC
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