Topband: really weird propagation

[Wes]

I didn't listen to him for very long. Woke up @ 1145Z (before the 12Z alarm) and 
went into the shack.  I saw him spotted listening up 2.  I gave two calls up 2 
and he came right back.  He was about 579 IIRC.  I saw lots of callers on the 
bandscope but I didn't stick around so I can't say what condx were really doing.

Wes  N7WS

On 2/21/2019 8:04 AM, N7DF via Topband wrote:
> This morning I saw T31EU posted many times on DXSCAPE on 160 so I turned on the rig to listen for him...at 1305 he was 20 over S9 but within a minute he had faded out completely..strangely enough I could not hear any of the stations calling him...within another couple of minutes his signals were back up and I noticed that he several times called stations who never came back to him..This pattern seemed to persist for the remainder of the morning until he faded out completely around 14:40.. Spaceweather.com reports a pending geomagnetic storm but nothing unusual at the time I was listening..there has been a prolonged period of over 20 days of zero sunspots so that probably has something to do with it..I do not think I will ever understand 160 meter propagation but that is one of the things that makes it so interesting
> _________________
> Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
>