Topband: Little NA Activity?

[Gary Smith]

Roger,

I haven't been able to be on much the last 
few days but I did get on for a bit, both 
nights. It was for me, in Connecticut, 
just across the pond, extremely quiet, 
almost un-naturally so. 

I thought I had something affecting my 
radio or antennas, maybe the attenuator on 
with no visual indicator of being active. 
But no, F, G & DL were definitely in there 
& some were peaking at S7. 

Friday night I was barefoot and worked 
DF2PY, his signals were Q5 throughout and 
though he had a bit of a challenge getting 
my call at first, we made the QSO just 
fine. That was at 05:03Z.

All considering, the band was pretty nice 
on this end the last two days.

73,

Gary
KA1J
 


> Well I came on 160m both Friday Night and Saturday night.  (at various
> times between 0200 and 0600Z)
> 
> Although some of my RBN reports from North American sites were quite
> strong, I only worked a few NA Stations each night.  There were other
> Europeans on too, who again were calling CQ DX, but getting no
> replies.
> 
> So I figure it was just a lack of activity from North American
> Stations . . . 
> 
> Is it still very noisy over there, is that why?
> 
> The one thing I DID notice (just like last season), is that far from
> my RBN reports PEAKING towards our Sunrise, they actually went down.
> 
> Roger G3YRO
> 
> 
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