Topband: One of those times

[Bill Cromwell]

On 01/24/2014 02:14 PM, Merv Schweigert wrote:
> Conditions have been very poor to say the least from KH6 land
> especially to EU.  What few contacts I have made have been
> from a very skewed western direction.
>
> Today was no different, path over the pole at sunrise was not open,
> I was sitting on 1823 working on email,  sunrise is 1708Z and
> suddenly I could hear a signal starting to come out of the noise.
> ???BM   8???BM  then clear as a bell 8Q7BM calling cq.  One
> call and I had a new one in the log at 1710Z,   he then faded
> back down into the noise,  I could hear traces of him for another
> 20 mins after sunrise,  not enough to copy but knew he was
> there.
>
> Just one of those top band times when being at the right place at
> the right time when the band sounds dead.
> Makes up for all the ones I have missed this season.
> 73 Merv K9FD/KH6

Hi,

Some people sneer at me when I mention the propagation faeries playing 
but this is just more evidence to support my theories <grin>

73,

Bill  KU8H