Topband: Lack of QSO's

[GEORGE WALLNER]

Conditions were excellent. In fact too good: Even with a directional RX 
antenna pointing towards NA, the EU stations were "QRM-ing" us (and calling 
us), until their SR.
Of course, contests and DXpeditions have a way of improving conditions.
73,
George,
C6AGU


On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 16:25:16 -0500
  Don Kirk <wd8dsb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi George,
>
> I thought conditions last night (Saturday night) were very good all night
> long on 160 meters, with signals from Europe pretty easy copy near
> Indianapolis at least 45 minutes before sunset.  I was only going to put a
> few stations in the log before heading to bed around 11pm local time but
> wound up operating until 3am local time (0800 UTC) due to all the activity
> and fun on 160.
>
> 73,
> Don (wd8dsb)
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 12:05 PM GEORGE WALLNER <aa7jv at atlanticbb.net>
> wrote:
>> The bands may be quiet at times, but last night from C6AGU I had contest
>> runs that were more like what you experience on 20 m: 180 - 200 QSO-s per
>> hour peaks.  No lack of QSO-s here.
>>
>> TKS and 73,
>> George,
>> AA7JV/C6AGU
>>
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