Topband: Stew Perry Topband Challenge

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

That was a really attenuated contest.

VE3MGY was weak all night. Except VE3MGY is *never *weak here unless the
sun hasn't gone down. Best proof of a weird, attenuated night. I only
worked 5 VE's, none of them loud, and normally work 20+, even in summer at
least in high teens. Not this year....

Never managed to copy a European, much less work one. I did a couple of
times hear a station calling me that had "5K" in the call sign. So far in
Tree's listing PA5KT and EI5KF are the only call signs with a "5K" in
them. Probably was Gerald. Path to him would have least amount of sunlight,
farthest west.

Worked ONE USA west coast, K7RAT, also my longest QSO. Struggle to work
anything west of Mississippi.

About half my QSO's needed repeats. Sorry about that.

QSB was deep and fast, seemingly on everything past 500 miles or so. QRN
was awful and coming from every direction.

Definitely weird. Wonder if this will be the way of summer Topband until
the sunspots go down again.

73, Guy K2AV





On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 7:22 AM Henk Remijn PA5KT via Topband <
topband at contesting.com> wrote:

> I was cq-ing between 0100Z and sunrise. Did not work any NA. Was spotted
> 6 times by W1NT-6.
>
> Was also active in the evening, but 6m did win over 160m, so spent most
> time on 6m.
>
> Worked 23 stations, only EU.
>
> I did hear some NA stations, but impossible to copy callsigns.
>
> 73 Henk PA5KT
>
> Op 19-6-2023 om 11:14 schreef Roger Kennedy:
> > Well I don't know how others got on . . .
> >
> > But I didn't hear one single North American station on Saturday night !
> >
> > Roger G3YRO
> >
> >
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