Topband: brief opening on topband today

[John Randall]

My last email had some Gremlins , so here it is again......
 This afternoon, I had my flex 3k idling on 1.850 (QRO section ) when I saw a strong station a bit lower down on the waterfall display and found it to be S52AW Karl calling CQ at 16h58z,I answered his call and we had a pleasant ssb qso till he just faded into the noise, the qso lasted about 2 minutes. This coincided with a drop in the K-INDEX, which dropped from 5 to about 2.I also worked RW1F last night just before 22h00z and I am as happy as a pig in mud...hi
There is some hope with my antenna system albeit a small one, but just goes to show that sometimes these "flash in the pans" do occur. I later learned that there was a 160m contest stating later in the evening and that he was probably tuning up his station and that I was on the right spot at the right time.
ps, this morning 24.02.2018 at 08h17, I worked S51V running 30w ( max pwr limit ) Cannot stop smiling....XYL worried...hi hi

73John -M0ELS (30M east of London )


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    On Saturday, 24 February 2018, 04:06:18 GMT, rayn6vr <rayn6vr at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 John,
Sound great! I'd love to work S5 on 160m.
More details please. Where are located, what is you callsign?
Ray,N6VR 


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-------- Original message --------From: John Randall via Topband <topband at contesting.com> Date: 2/23/18 10:46 AM (GMT-07:00) To: topband at contesting.com Subject: Topband: brief opening on topband today 
This afternoon, I had my flex 3k on 1.850 when I saw a trong station a bit lower down on the waterfall display and found it to ne S52AW Karl calling CQ at 16h58z,I answered his call and we had a pleasant ssb qso till he just faded into the noise, the qso lasted about 2 minutes. This coincided with a drop in the K-INDEX, which dropped from 5 to about 2.I also worked RW1F last night just before 22h00z and I am as happy as a pig in mud...hi
There is some hope with my antenna system albeit a small one. 
73John
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