Topband: Lightning QRN season?

[Tom W8JI]

> The persistence of easily more than half a year of loud QRN in the 
> evenings
> on 160, perhaps 3/4 of the year, has generated the *expectation* that no
> one is on.  The expectation of activity is what generates activity.  The
> band is clearly open to some degree at various times any night, even in
> July.

>From here, it's quite possible to work JA's and almost everywhere where 
there is overlapping darkness during Summer. Even daylight paths sometimes 
appear with skews.

That's why the "first WAC of the season" thing always puzzled me, because 
there really is not a specific season. It's just when people get on.