Topband: Wednesday CW DX Activity Night

[Jim Brown]

On 3/4/2021 1:53 PM, Roger Kennedy wrote:
> Mainly because there's usually more stations to work . . . but also because
> there rarely seems to be a Sunrise Peak these days

Virtually all of the good DX I've worked on 160, 80, and 40 has been in 
the daylight side of the terminator at one end or the other of the QSO. 
Typically 30-45 minutes for 160, an hour or so for 80, two hours for 
40M. I find it frustrating that DX stations I want to work turn off 
their rigs or move to another band at the first sign of daylight, just 
when prop is peaking. Here on the west coast, the Stew starts at 7 am, 
which is around our dawn in Dec. We're all on the air then, and in good 
years, work 30-40 JAs in 30-45 minutes. I'm still working of finishing 
QRP WAS on 160; I'm missing VT and SC, and all of my hard ones 
(bordering the Atlantic) occurred on the daylight side of their sunrise 
or my sunset.

73, Jim K9YC