Topband: DX conditions and activity

[Richard McLachlan]

Conditions have certainly been good across the Atlantic. Last evening here VO1HP was 579 at 1900 UTC although he was not hearing me. Also I have never heard so many W Coast NA as during the last few weeks.

Richard
G3OQT

> On 19 Dec 2019, at 21:58, VE6WZ_Steve <ve6wz at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> DX conditions and CW activity from VE6 has been excellent so far this season on 160m.
> I did a log .csv export and a few pivot table runs on the VE6WZ log from September till December 18.
> 
> This season stats for the 4 months so far,
> 
> AF / EU- 982 QSOs, 360 unique calls, 44 DXCC
> 
> AS- 294 QSO’s, 194 unique calls, 7 DXCC (228 JA QSOs)
> 
> OC- 132 QSO’s, 30 unique calls, 15 DXCC (42 VK QSO’s)
> 
> NA / SA- 48 QSO’s (non-USA), 29 DXCC
> 
> Total 1,456 DX QSO’s, 604 unique callsigns, and 95 DXCC
> 
> The band is alive and well with a lot of great CW DX activity.  Most evenings I will log 20-30 EU, and this year there have been many “never worked before on 160” callsigns.
> Sure, out of 1,456 DX QSOs only 604 are unique callsigns, but even that is a lot of activity on the band.  I still like to get calls from my DX friends even if we have worked multiple times on the band!
> 
> It seems that 160m is NOT going in the same direction as 6 m did for CW activity.
> 
> Get on the band, call CQ and work some DX…..even if it's not a “new one”.
> 
> 73, es lets hope the great conditions persist!
> 
> de steve ve6wz
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