Topband: The End of Another One...

[Eddy Swynar]

Good Day All,

Well, Spring sure has arrived early this year in this part of "VE3"-land---so early, in fact, that the XYL is making noises to-day about our starting to rake the lawn in preparation for the ongoing 6 month long grass harvesting season here in southern Ontario...

The odious task of raking is scheduled to commence this coming Sunday, & that means but one thing: it's time to roll up the radials beneath the "L" antennas here, & vacate Topband until the end of October 2012 (sigh!). 

In as much as I may hate leaving 160-meters "...for the duration", I must say that---for me, at any rate---this season on 1.8-MHz will be memorable if only for the fact that things more or less shut down here, propagation-wise, earlier this year than last: in 2011, things sorta died in January---2012 saw things wither on the vine early in December. Oh, there were moments of bliss, alright, and I have two new ones in my 160-meter DXCC total to show for it...but hardly anything to make it a stand-out season for all of the RIGHT reasons.

Fingers here are crossed that 2012-13 will more than make-up for the past...!

~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ