Topband: Good Conditions, little NA Activity

[w5zn at w5zn.org]

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 ?
> 
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> 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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