Topband: CQ160 Conditions

[Raymond Benny]

Jim,

You might mention that you are on the east coast, at least, that's was
qrz.com says.

Sure wondered how you worked 58 eu from w6 land. I haven't worked more than
a dozen EU from AZ in any recent 160m tests.

Ray,
N6VR


On Mon, Jan 28, 2019, 2:47 PM Larry via Topband <topband at contesting.com
wrote:

> Hi Rick,
>
> You are correct. I am 425 miles from the ocean. As DF2 PY would like to
> say- I am located in the far LEFT COAST.
>
> Either way the conditions were really poor for me with only 5 European
> stations in the log. I chased down EU spots that were normally extremely
> loud but nothing heard. I expect that it was much worse at  your location.
>
> As they say, next year!
>
> Larry
>
> Sent by Larry
>
> On Jan 28, 2019, at 1:04 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist <
> richard at karlquist.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 1/28/2019 11:27 AM, Larry via Topband wrote:
> > Good job. Unfortunately the conditions from the West coast were the
> worst in the last 10 years.
> > Funny band.
> > Larry
> > n7dd
>
> Hi Larry, you worked me in the first minutes of the contest
> in full daylight, hi.
>
> AFAIK, you are east of Salt Lake City.  Also considerably south
> of there as well. I would hardly consider your QTH the "west coast".
> I often hear you working stuff I can't even hear.  Spot light
> propagation etc.
>
> 73
> Rick N6RK
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