Topband: Lightning QRN season?

[ZR]

I would think that with optimized F/R for your Beverages that at least one 
path would be somewhat quiet.

I was on 160 AM for a few hours last eve and QSO's out to 300-450 miles was 
good copy with stations at the 100W level at both ends. Northern Maine, 
Buffalo, WPA, and others were worked with the 1949 Viking I at 100W and also 
1949 era HQ-129X with the 180' high inverted V. Reports using the vertical 
were weaker and with a lot of deep QSB except for the stations out to 50 
miles or so.

With a good part of SA being to the S/SE from here Ive heard the occassional 
LU, PY, etc on CW while keeping enough of the SW and W  T storm static at 
bay. Cranking in the selectivity further improves the SNR.

Carl
KM1H



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Waters" <mikewate at gmail.com>
To: "topband" <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: Lightning QRN season?


>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:
>>
>>>   Anyone have a guesstimate as to when the QRN will begin letting up a
>>> little on 160?
>>>
>>
> _________________
> Topband Reflector
>
>
> -----
> No virus found in this message.
> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
> Version: 10.0.1432 / Virus Database: 3204/6014 - Release Date: 07/23/13
>