Topband: Summer Stew Perry

[Herb Schoenbohm]

Remember that in the southern hemisphere the seasons are reversed from 
NA and supposedly at the equatorial belt it is a wash with tropical QRN 
being the factor along the ITCZ.  But don't give up....as the past two 
nights Dietmar,  V5/DL3DXX has been in here with a 579 signal after 
local sunset.  He has been easy to work and has a bunch of EU's calling 
him but no NA except myself and VE1ZZ.  Namibia is 10,000KM from me and 
anytime of year this is good DX especially from the African Continent.  
ZL3IX is 14,000KM away and we can work with 579-599 signals almost any 
morning during the Spring and summer months.  Anything, including the 
promotion of the "Summer Stew", that anyone can do to keep up the 
activity on TB is great.

73,

Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ




On 3/21/2012 2:00 PM, k9mms at comcast.net wrote:
> Any contest on top band is always enjoyable (unless there are continuous static crashes), and a summer "Stew" would be fine. For a summer TBDC contest to be successful, there needs to be more participation. So far, in my experience, the summer "Stew" event has been disappointing in that there is very little activity. Yet, in the August NAQP CW contests, there is usually a fair amount of activity and numerous stations to work. Maybe a summer "Stew" event needs wider advance publicity?
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> 73,
> Gary . K9MMS
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