Topband: 160 last nite and this morning

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Last night's conditions on the band were quite good. It was quiet this 
end and I could hear many (US) stations calling the contest stations 
here, and I worked a few myself. Unfortunately, I couldn't stick at it 
as I have a very hard couple of days work. Hopefully conditions 
continue, although I am expecting noise to increase as we head towards 
summer. Last week I had a blast, working 42 DX one evening, mostly NA, 
with a number of East Asian stations. Some of the NA stations were not 
QRO and were still good copy here.

73 Luke VK3HJ

On 10/10/2020 11:15 pm, Ron Spencer via Topband wrote:
> Last nite (Oct 9th) seemed excellent condx to EU. Worked several stations and even a couple with just 100W. this morning the OC contest was going so more activity than usual. Worked 8 VK and 1 KH6. More in one morning than any other time. In fact, more in one morning than in many years!
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> Since building a W8JI/ W5ZN 8 antenna circle array I've played on 160 through our summer (really helps if you can hear stuff!!) and its been very fun. In our mornings quite common to hear a couple VK and even ZL. On a couple mornings have even worked JA. Now that its getting later in the year I'm seeing/ hearing a few more US stations on both in our mornings and evenings so I'd expect activity to continue to increase.
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