Topband: Propagation to Conway Reef

[Brian Machesney]

While trying not to whine (or winge, as the case may be), I second Herb's
remarks re: Pacific DX to eastern NA. Reviewing my logs, I see that a
number of stations were pounding in during the hours after *their* sunset,
which - being the wee small hours here - may deliver a better rate to the
DX by virtue of less QRM. The converse has also been true; perhaps we are
louder at the DX during our sunrise, but they have often been weaker.

Fingers crossed, I'm still grateful to have put them in the log from 10m
through 40m.

Brian K1LI

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Herb Schoenbohm <herbs at vitelcom.net> wrote:

> Again the same thing with past rare pacific DX-peditions,    3D2C did not
> start on Top band today as in other days until 1/2 hour after local Eastern
> Caribbean sunrise.  Not to worry for me as I already have Conway Reef
> confirmed on 160.  I only make this mention since there are others out here
> that need it on TB and will not have a chance under this schedule. The
> problem with many DX-peditions today rather than in the past is they rely
> on SR/SS charts for the East Coast before they even check the band for a
> few test CQ's prior to what the charts or the computer tells them what to
> do.  The same pattern holds true when rare African and Indian ocean
> operations completely forget about the great sunset openings here to that
> region and only take Europeans at 2230-2330 and give their first QRZ NA an
> hour or so later when the line moves up the East Coast and the Big Guns are
> pounding away.  Timing I guess *is* everything.  So either way at times it
> is beyond belief how strong some rare DX-peditions are here when they are
> stringing Euros but you never have a chance in breaking that wall.  I liked
> the remarks of Jerry WB9Z who said from NH8S as soon as they got the TB
> antennas up that "tonight we will be on 160 from before our local sunset to
> after our sunrise. " That was music to my ears!
>
>
> Herb, KV4FZ
>
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> On 9/30/2012 3:53 PM, N3XX wrote:
>
>> They were weak here earlier this morning, but the signal came up nicely
>> at around 1115Z, about 15 minutes before sunrise here.  Made the contact
>> for a new one at 1122Z.
>>
>> Good luck.
>> 73,
>> Tim - N3XX
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Willenberg" <
>> wewill747 at gmail.com>
>> To: <topband at contesting.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2012 2:26 PM
>> Subject: Topband: Propagation to Conway Reef
>>
>>
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