Topband: Good Conditions, little NA Activity

[uy0zg]

Thanks Joel

This was my first TX on 160 m ( 27.01.1997).

Nick, UY0ZG
http://www.topband.in.ua

w5zn at w5zn.org писал 2020-01-05 21:11:
> Nick,
> 
> Dave is fine, or at least he was the last time I spoke to him a couple
> of months ago. He has remarried (you recall his wife Charlotte passed
> away a few years ago) and he has moved to a new QTH and, sadly, says
> he has no interest in radio now.
> 
> 73 Joel W5ZN
> 
> 
> On 2020-01-05 10:49, uy0zg wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> For a long time not heard and not visible W5UN.
>> 
>> He is OK ?
>> 
>> ---
>> Nick, UY0ZG
>> http://www.topband.in.ua
>> 
>> Roger Kennedy писал 2020-01-05 19:36:
>>> Regarding your comments, Mike VE9AA . . .
>>> 
>>> I appreciate I may not be one of the biggest signals on the band 
>>> (although I
>>> did get several S9+ reports from NA over this weekend). . . but the 
>>> point I
>>> was making was that there were several of the big EU stations on the 
>>> band
>>> too, and they were getting very few replies, even though conditions 
>>> were
>>> pretty good !
>>> 
>>> And secondly, if anything, last winter a lot MORE North American 
>>> stations
>>> were coming on for my suggested Wednesday CW Activity Night than on a
>>> typical weekend. (hence my suggesting it . . . as I say, I figured 
>>> people
>>> might be busy with family at the weekend)
>>> 
>>> In the recent Stew Perry contest, I worked dozens of NA stations that 
>>> you
>>> never normally hear on the band. These stations obviously put out a 
>>> good
>>> enough signal to get through the very strong EU contest QRM, so must 
>>> have a
>>> pretty decent 160m setup . . . yet most of the time they are pretty
>>> inactive.
>>> 
>>> 73 Roger G3YRO
>>> 
>>> 
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