Topband: 160m CW Activity

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We typically have storm static from September till April, but winter thunderstorms are possible as well. In addition, there is always Tropical noise that may propagate in, when there are otherwise no thunderstorms apparent across all of Australia.
I’m still working a handful of European stations most mornings, but this morning, the Polish DX Contest was on, so that made working any DX impossible.
Most of our interesting DX is worked during our summer time, so we just have to put up with the noise. Very little happens over winter, when it is nice and quiet.
73, Luke VK3HJ

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From: Roger Kennedy
Sent: Sunday, 4 April 2021 4:16 AM
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Topband: 160m CW Activity


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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