Topband: TB season

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:::: Thank you so much!!!
Great stuff Luis.
BILL

On 3/16/2012 1:30 PM, Luis Mansutti IV3PRK wrote:
> Bill and all,
>
> as a newcomer you can find on my website a lot of graphs showing the season
> behaviour of 160 meters.
>
> For example give a look at these pages
> http://www.iv3prk.it/north-america.htm and
> http://www.iv3prk.it/peaking-times.htm and you see that Topband season never
> ends:
>
> In the last 20 years I been active on 160m. almost every day and antennas
> are always the same, winter and summer: 4 elevated radials for transmitting
> and NO Beverages for receiving, so no problems for gardening and grass
> mowing!
>
> 73
> Luis IV3PRK
>
> www.iv3prk.it
>
>
>
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Cromwell"<wrcromwell at gmail.com>
> To:<topband at contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 1:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Topband: TB season
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I sent a private email to one of the first hams to post about this.
>> Apparently there is a lot of interest on the list about this. I am new
>> to 160 meters and struggling to get my radios and antennas up to par. I
>> was dismayed to see that there is a "season". I surely expect
>> propagation to change but I expected to be more or less able to find
>> some QSOs most of the time. I was pleased to see hams respond favorably
>> about staying on the air. I do participate in some of the contests but I
>> am more interested in rag chewing. As I make improvements in my station
>> equipment I hope I'll be working more and more Top Band hams.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Bill  KU8H
>>
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