Topband: Boring Report - ZS1REC and 4Z1UF

[Joe Giacobello, K2XX]

Europe was coming through fairly well around 0500-0630Z here in SW VA 
last night, but there was lots of deep QSB.  I copied G3JMJ (who was not 
copying me very well), DF2PY, LA4HIA, LA3ANA, DL1AWI, OZ7YY and others.  
While conditions seemed much poorer than several years ago, they were 
the best I've experienced so far this season.  G3JMJ was copyable here 
for several hours with S4-5 sigs.  OZ7YY and DF2PY were S6-7 at times.

73, Joe
K2XX

On 11/10/2012 10:29 AM, Tree wrote:
> The band seems to be coming alive here in Boring, Oregon.
>
> Last night - I was able to copy ZS1REC for a good 10 minutes around his
> sunrise.  However, Raoul had too much noise to copy me or N9RV.
>
> This morning - I warmed up the shack calling CQ and was heard by 4Z1UF -
> around my sunrise.  Ilya was able to do an antenna check with me and
> reported I was louder when beaming North as opposed to broadside E/W and he
> could not hear me at all when I beamed South (two element phased
> verticals).  I wasn't able to hear him well enough to make a QSO however.
>
> These two "half" QSOs are very encouraging however.
>
> 73 Tree N6TR/7
> Boring, OR
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