Topband: Trans-polar EU condx

[Steve Harrison]

Heard VE6WZ working Euros one after another last night, but heard W0FLS 
having trouble copying most of the same Euros plus repeating info and 
only giving them 559s. Here in the southwest US desert paradise of DM24, 
I saw all the Euros spotted on RBN but couldn't hear any of them. I know 
that at sometime before around DL sunrise, W8KA over in AZ managed to 
work F5NTL and signals were good enough that they exchanged names. He 
may have worked a couple before I started listening to him. Shortly 
after that, I thought I might have heard LY2M on one peak when he hit 
539 but I never heard him again; it could have been an east coaster 
signing from a QSO. The only other Euro I've copied this week was SM5EDX 
and I haven't even seen him spotted for 3-4 days. Yes, the KL7s (both KY 
and SB) were hearing, spotting and calling Europe for awhile, at least 
an hour before DL sunrise. BTW, note that KL2A, who occasionally signs 
portable 7 (KL2A/7) while CQing, is somewhere in W7-land, not KL7; the 
RBN spots him all the time but still places him in Alaska even when he 
signs KL2A/7. I read somewhere he's only running 100W to a sloping wire??

I was overcast with occasional rain all day (writing this right at 
sunset), so did not get a full battery recharge after sitting waiting 
for DU7ET this morning, whom I don't think ever came on although 9M2AX 
was in there weakly for awhile (nobody worked him); thus, I won't be 
running my amp much tonight, if at all, since I'm supposed to get even 
more rain tomorrow so the batts will drain even further 8-( If the band 
sounds GOOD, I'll maybe turn it on to try working someone or two (or 
three?? hope springs eternal... 8-).

Steve, K0XP

DM24


On 1/20/2024 3:54 PM, Roger Kennedy wrote:
> Well I was pleasantly surprised to see a KL7 spot me on the DX Cluster and
> give me 559 last night . . . sadly if he tried calling me, I didn't hear
> him.
>
> There were quire a few Europeans on 160 on CW last night . . . although I
> didn't hear any having QSOs with North American stations.
>
> I shall be on at various times again tonight.
>
> 73 Roger G3YRO
>
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