Topband: Not so ood in the contest last night

[Shoppa, Tim]

I felt conditions to EU were great in Stew and Prestew.

There was one really excellent hour to run EU boom-boom-boom in CQ WW in November from LPL. That was a real joy!

I felt also 80/40 were lackluster in ARRL DX CW. Usually I could work an endless pool of QRP EU stations on 40M and several QRP EU's on 80M. But nothing like that this year. With 20M open all night, not really all that much of a loss in net score for me!

Tim N3QE

----- Original Message -----
From: Eddy Swynar [mailto:deswynar at xplornet.ca]
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2014 11:50 AM
To: herbs at vitelcom.net <herbs at vitelcom.net>
Cc: topband at contesting.com <topband at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Not so ood in the contest last night


On 2014-02-22, at 11:45 AM, Herb Schoenbohm wrote:

> Don't feel bad Don as last night I only worked three stateside stations K3ZM, W8PR  WD5R.  I must have spent two hours calling W8PR at night but heard me until at my sunrise. I run an Alpha 87A and a quarter wave vertical but all the other stateside stations called just ran their CQ machines and apparently I could not even work Florida station in here 10 over 9 and only 1200 miles away.  Even Jeff VY2ZM who has super ears could not even hear a single character of my call.  So as the song goes  "you gotta know when to hold and when to fold." So I decided to thrown the main breaker to the ham shack and save some money on electricity.
> 
> Herb, KV4FZ



Hi Guys,

It's comments like yours, Herb, that make me somewhat glad that Mother Nature effectively robbed me of any Topband activities here this year...

I detected a decline in conditions for at least 2 years prior to this season, & from all accounts, the 2013-14 session has MORE than earned any "Rotten Tomato" awards hurled its way...!   :o)

~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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