Topband: Poor 160m DX Propagation

[Rich Dailey]

Yes, Rotten QRN. Yes, Rotten Lightning bursts. Yes, Solar conditions.
But many of us are lured away from 160 to 15, 10 and 6. Some of our ears
are somewhere else other than 160 when the SF goes up.
I love the band, but sometimes it's hard to resist the stronger DX, and
smaller gain antennae. :-)

Rich, N8UX



----- Original Message -----
From: "David Raymond" <daraymond at iowatelecom.net>
To: "topband" <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 1:31:44 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: Poor 160m DX Propagation

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:
> https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/solar-cycle.html
>
>
> 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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