Topband: Band Report

[Don Kirk]

As a followup to my previous post about great band conditions early Monday
morning, the band this morning (Tuesday) was back to its typical self if
not a little worse from here in the Midwest USA.  European stations peaking
25 dB above my noise floor early Monday morning were lucky to be peaking 5
dB above my noise floor this morning (which is much more the norm).  I
would call what we experienced Sunday night / Monday morning one of those
rare special days (magic days).  I sometimes notice a day each side of the
magic days where propagation is a little better than normal, but this
morning was not one of them here in the Midwest.  What Sunday night /
Monday morning shows is that you must check the band everyday or you have a
great chance of missing one of those very special moments where the band is
red hot.

Just FYI,
Don (wd8dsb)

On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 6:20 PM Don Kirk <wd8dsb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Dave and Gang,
>
> This morning I was on from 0600 to around 0730 UTC and the band was in
> great condition into Europe from the Midwest (but lots of QSB), and at the
> same time I heard KH6 really pounding in strong.  I typically call
> conditions like this morning as one of those special days that occurs only
> a handful of times a year on 160 meters.  Stations like DL5AXX and SM5EDX
> were at times peaking 25 to 30 dB above my noise floor, but there were lots
> of smaller stations easily workable which is an indicator of very good
> conditions.
>
> Here is a link to a recording of DL5AXX that I made this morning:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEqLKMjG7L8
>
> 73,
> Don (wd8dsb)
>
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