Topband: Good Conditions, little NA Activity
w5zn at w5zn.org
w5zn at w5zn.org
Sun Jan 5 14:11:43 EST 2020
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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