Topband: Wednesday 160m DX CW Activity Night

[David Olean]

I seem to have missed you last night, Roger. I was QRV, but took time 
out to work on an old boat anchor receiver. It has a very obtuse problem 
and it took awhile to figure out. I was on early, around 0000 UT and 
then later on the two hours before your sun rise. All signals were down 
from what I would call "good". Still there were stations to work.  I 
worked a few Gs, SM, F, and others.  Early in the evening there were a 
few UA stations on and they were calling KK1CWO on Cape Cod.   The 
signals were generally weak last night. QSB would take some stations 
down into the noise.  Stations that might go over S9 on a good night, 
were running S6 or S7 at best. The good news was that I found a pesky 
problem in the receiver. It was a bad silver mica capacitor in one of 
the rf coil sections.

Dave K1WHS

On 1/16/2020 4:00 PM, Roger Kennedy wrote:
> Well sadly conditions seemed very poor last night . . .
>
> My own signals were 20 to 30dB down on what I would normally see on NA RBN
> sites
>
> I managed just 4 NA QSOs . . . but heard several other people calling me
> that were way down in the noise.
>
> Not sure how many stations were on across the pond, but heard lots of other
> EU stations calling CQ, but getting few replies.
>
> Thanks to all those that made the effort to come on the band . . . let's
> hope conditions are better next Wednesday !
>
> 73 Roger G3YRO
>
>
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