Topband: Wednesday Night Activity

[Carl Braun]

Hello Roger and Topbanders

I heard G3YRO last night at 0024. You were good copy at S4 with heavy qsb. I threw every watt I had (120w) toward G3 but didn’t make it. You did send me a ? but no contact.

Hang in there. I’ll have the amp cooking on 160 soon and we’ll get a contact in the log soon.

73 from Wisconsin where it is -18c now.

Carl W9LF

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Well conditions had been pretty good all week up to Wednesday . . . I had
plenty of QSOs right across the US, and was getting NA RBN S/N reports
between +30 to 40dB, which is as good as it gets.

However on Wednesday night I came on the band around 0000Z, but saw that my
RBN reports were way down - I figured this was likely to be due to QRN
rather than propagation. So I didn't stay on very long. I tried again around
0300, but it was much the same.

Incidentally, as I have mentioned previously, there always used to be a big
peak on 160m signals around our Sunrise . . . but I find the reverse is true
these days. Best reports from across North America are around 00.30 for me .
. . signals drop off at least 10dB as you get near our Sunrise. (and I've
noticed the same on receive, listening to lots of stations during the
contests). So I rarely bother coming back on at Sunrise.

Anyway, hopefully there will be lots of activity next Wednesday night.

Happy New Year to everyone !

73 Roger G3YRO

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