Topband: Lightning QRN season?

[Mike Waters]

I appreciate the replies and insight. Let me add some details I should have
included in my original question.

What I really wanted to know was, When do you think that QRN might let up a
little, to the point when we might expect to have a relatively quiet night
here and there? So far, we have gone many weeks with not one single evening
of quiet, making DX --and most good stations on the east and west coast--
all but impossible to hear over the lightning crashes. Beverages _at both
ends of the path_ helps, but that's not often the situation lately.

I haven't listened on 160 every night, but ever since sometime in May (I
forget exactly) I have been daily checking the Intellicast real-time
lightning map at www.intellicast.com/Storm/Severe/Lightning.aspx . And
there has not been a single evening on 160 since then when there was not a
lot of lightning over the continental USA.

I did manage to have some SSB ragchews late last night with some very
strong stations in the Midwest, but the QRN never dropped below S9 even
though the lightning was some distance away.

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On 7/23/2013 12:26 AM, Mike Waters wrote:
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>>   Anyone have a guesstimate as to when the QRN will begin letting up a
>> little on 160?
>>
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