Topband: Poor 160m DX Propagation

[David Raymond]

As we've said before, many of us in NA are fighting not just QRN but 
significant attacks from lightning.  There a lot of us that are 
essentially shut down for the season, my self included  (four square 
elements are now grounded and the 8 circle is decommissioned).  I'm 
still QRV somewhat with a 1/4 wave sloping vertical with elevated 
radials but deaf as a post much of the time.

73. . . Dave, W0FLS

On 4/20/2022 11:11 AM, Henk Remijn PA5KT via Topband wrote:
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> Op 20-4-2022 om 11:51 schreef Roger Kennedy:
>> Propagation on 160m between this part of Europe and North America 
>> seems to
>> have been really
>> poor for several weeks now . . .
>>
>> RBN reports from across the pond are typically 20dB down on normal 
>> most of
>> the time . . . and hear very few NA stations on the band.
>>
>> Not sure why that is . . .
>>
>> Roger G3YRO
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