Topband: Topband Digest, Vol 246, Issue 9

[Richard McLachlan]

Absolutely nothing here except a few EU.

73

Richard G3OQT

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>   1. Re: Stew Perry Topband Challenge (Guy Olinger K2AV)
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> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2023 02:34:34 -0400
> From: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy at gmail.com>
> To: Henk Remijn PA5KT <pa5kt at remijn.net>
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> Subject: Re: Topband: Stew Perry Topband Challenge
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> That was a really attenuated contest.
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> 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.
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> Worked ONE USA west coast, K7RAT, also my longest QSO. Struggle to work
> anything west of Mississippi.
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> 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
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>> On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 7:22 AM Henk Remijn PA5KT via Topband <
>> topband at contesting.com> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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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