Topband: Stew Perry from K7RAT

[Tree]

Wow!!  This was a lot of fun.

Always nice to see the band scope filled up with CW signals from 1810 to
1839.  I didn't see anyone up above the FT8 signals, but there might have
been some.

The band seemed very quiet - and I could hear really well, although signals
were not really strong.  LY7M was good copy 90 minutes before sunset -
which is something I would expect in December.  Managed about 12 QSOs with
Europe - mostly Northern.  RX3APM was maybe the strongest although SM5EDX
was a consistent signal for at least an hour.  The big surprise from Europe
came this morning - where I worked UA4HBW and RA4LW about an hour before
sunrise.  This is another thing that you typically don't see until December
and only during low sunspot years.  Their signals were coming in from the
North.

Had a good sunrise peak to VK6 and worked two of them.  Nothing else from
South of the equator.  Nice to add about a dozen JAs.

Tree N6TR / K7RAT
Manning, OR