Topband: Working Europe

[Lennart m]

Hi guys
Last night I spent some time calling CQ DX on 1821.5. Just a few weak qrp
Eu:s showed up. Then 9M2AX came on with a nice signal thru the QRN. That was
it. LU8 xx was trying to hear Ross but I believe they did not make it.
QRN all over EU makes the band sound dead.
Cu 73
Len SM7BIC

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Från: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] För Guy Olinger K2AV
Skickat: den 30 juni 2016 21:13
Till: Tim Shoppa <tshoppa at gmail.com>
Kopia: Topband <topband at contesting.com>; Bruce <k1fz at myfairpoint.net>
Ämne: Re: Topband: Working Europe

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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