Topband: FT5ZM

[Garry Shapiro]

The west coast depends upon the morning bump and the only window is 
between their sunset around 14Z and our sunrise around 1515 and 
shrinking; the actual sunrise bump is, of course, short. Some areas east 
of the Sierra in the Mountain time zone apparently have no mutual 
darkness and therefore no opening at all, similar to what happened at 
VK0IR in  1997.

Many west coast stations made good topband Q's over the weekend. Alas, I 
was plagued with a powerline arc exactly in line with Amsterdam SP and a 
deer took out my NW/SE Beverage. Now we are about to be clobbered by a 
CME--the high SFI of the past week heralded its arrival and I join those 
who are SOL. The prop gods are chortling.

Garry, NI6T


On 2/3/2014 6:45 PM, Les Kalmus wrote:
> They were on top band tonight but really weak at best. I heard them 
> better on the inverted L than the beverage which is really weird. They 
> didn't start calling until around 2330Z.
>
> The ditter was a pita.
>
> 73, Les W2LK
>
> On 2/3/2014 6:33 PM, Gary Smith wrote:
>> Well, it's academic for tonight because the only signals on frequency
>> I've heard all night were the buzzards throwing out carriers & the
>> occasional dits so to let us know they're there, waiting.
>>
>> Band condx or local issues there keeping them off 160 it seems.
>>
>> Gary, KA1J
>>
>>> Gary,
>>>
>>> I know I worked them on 40 SSB last night, and I do not appear in 
>>> the log.
>>>   So, I checked about a dozen other guys in the spots for 40 SSB 
>>> last night
>>> who supposedly worked them after I did.  None of them appear in the log
>>> either.  Methinks there are some bands missing in today's upload!
>>>
>>> 73, Tony K4QE
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Gary Smith <Gary at ka1j.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Rats, back in the chase, must have been a slim. Just checked clublogs
>>>> FT5ZM log and the 160M Q didn't show up but my 17M contact an hour &
>>>> a half later did. I know I heard them come back to me so it must have
>>>> been a slim but geez with the signals like they were, it sure sounded
>>>> like their signal.
>>>>
>>>> Ugh...
>>>>
>>>> Gary
>>>> KA1J
>>>>
>>>>> Fingers crossed it wasn't a slim I worked. The signals were in & out
>>>>> but for 4-5 minutes I could hear them clearly. Time'll tell.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I did get him it was greatly because the kiddies weren't playing
>>>>> so hard today.
>>>>>
>>>>> 73,
>>>>> Gary
>>>>> KA1J
>>>>>
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