Topband: 160M Propagation

[Olof Lundberg]

Dennis - it would be interesting to know when your qsos occurred in relation to your local midnight or the midpoint midnight and to the greylines. 
73 Olof G0CKV

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> On 18 Dec 2015, at 19:48, Dennis <egan.dennis88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I recently operated as CX/W1UE, from Uruguay.  I had difficulty hearing stations on most nights,
> but the night from 2200Z Thursday Dec 10 to 0600Z Friday Dec 11, I had no trouble hearing
> stations on either 160 or 80M.  I worked more stations in that 8 hour time period that I did in
> 20 hours spread over 2 weeks.  I keep coming back to the same question- why?
> 
>  I have never operated from CX before, I have nothing to evaluate the 2 weeks against.
> Did that night have exceptional low band propagation?
> 
> For that one night, I had no problems hearing anyone, it seemed.  I worked as far east as UA9
> in Z18 on 80M,  and a dozen Europeans on 160M.  Stations that I never heard before or after
> that night.  I'm trying to figure out how I heard so well on that night, but not on the other 10 nights
> where I also tried to make 80/160M QSOs.  I can't explain it.
> 
> Dennis CX/W1UE now just W1UE.
> 
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