Topband: 160m propagation from left coast

[Bob Kile]

Greetings All,

 From Northern Arizona 160m is open most days to the greater Pacific. 
George AA7JV has been very active testing for early August Jarvis Island 
N5J operations. His testing has been mostly oriented towards eastern US 
in time frame but very workable at their current American Samoa location 
K8R. Kudos to George for keeping band active.

Whilst conditions are not great, some good long haul DX has been active 
and very workable. Of note JA5DQH, VK6LW and JA1LZR have been active at 
times. Unlike Winter ops the optimum time is SR gray zone propagation 
with some great peaks. I must note the left coast has a great window to 
the Pacific in the pre-sunrise period as the thunderstorm QRN prevalent 
dips down giving us boys out west a very good signal to noise ratio.

South America Propagation is good but most are only FT8 now

Most people have been taking advantage of the high solar numbers and 
spending time on H. For the new guys on 160 this a a great opportunity 
to pick up some new ones.

73

keeping band alive de W7RH