Topband: 160m CW Activity

[GEORGE WALLNER]

Last Wednesday night QRN on my TX antenna was fluctuating between -100 dBm 
and -80 dBm (as shown on the Flex 6700 + Maestro waterfall) and S9 to 
S9+10dB on the S meter. I was on the band and could copy only a few signals, 
and only when the noise dropped to -100 dBm. OK1CF was the only solid DX 
copy here, S9+10 dB, stood out like a beacon. Location: Near Eleuthera 
Island, Cape Eleuthera, 24 47 N, 76 25 W. It is probably much quieter at 
higher latitudes.
73,
George,
C6AGU/MM

On Sat, 3 Apr 2021 19:16:12 +0100
  "Roger Kennedy" <roger at wessexproductions.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I know a lot of you guys in North America are complaining that you are
> already getting a lot of QRN on the band, so aren't coming on . . . 
>
> I guess we're pretty lucky here in Britain, as we only usually get
> thunderstorms in August . . . and even then, only for a handful of nights,
> so we don't get too many problems with static.
>
> But I just wanted to let you know that there are still quite a lot of us
> Europeans on 160m CW every night, looking for DX contacts . . . but most of
> us are calling CQ DX for ages, and lucky if we have more than 2 or 3 QSOs.
>
> However, propagation is still pretty good (I managed an S7 report from Texas
> last night), so if your noise level isn't too bad, hope a few more stations
> might make it on the band !
>
> 73 Roger G3YRO
>
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