Topband: Working Europe

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

There is the issue of when people are actually listening on 160. *Sounds*
dead because no one is there.

Then there is the issue of when the band is actually open.

Summer QRN in the northern hemisphere is a bummer, but RBN keeps showing
that the path is open in a summer fashion that we don't have dialed in yet.

Antenna here was necessarily on the ground for tree work during summer Stew
:>(   But did note in the results how many worked CW5W. 4 Stews a year is a
good idea and may pick up activity in the off times as we continue to
disprove ancient myths.

Looking forward to the solar minimum.

73, Guy



On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Tim Shoppa <tshoppa at gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought conditions on 160M to EU were very nice in the Summer Stew.
> Helped that there was zero local thunderstorm noise and I'm guessing was
> good weather in EU too.
>
> Tim N3QE
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 12:26 PM, K1FZ-Bruce <k1fz at myfairpoint.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > Good opening to Europe after 11 PM eastern time yesterday.  One station
> > not having any luck was just giving his call once. Another station was
> > calling off frequency.  RIT on ?
> >
> >
> > 73
> > Bruce
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