Topband: Equinox EU DX season report at VE6WZ

[Jim Brown]

Makes perfect sense, Bill!

I can work AF far more easily than Europe from my QTH near San 
Francisco. When I moved out here from Chicago, Garry, NI6T, taught me a 
lot about propagation on Topband, observing that the path from AZ and 
SoCal was a few dB better because it goes through a bit less of the AU 
zone.

Sadly, Garry has been QRT for nearly a decade, deep into Parkinson's.

73, Jim K9YC

On 3/24/2026 4:09 PM, Bill Tippett via Topband wrote:
>   I
> especially noticed some conditions when stations above the auroral rings
> (e.g. UA1OT in FJL) were much stronger than they "should" have been
> compared with more southerly EU areas.  One simple explanation was that my
> signal only needed to traverse one short part of the Au zone for my signal
> path whereas other EU areas would need to go through the zone for greater
> distances (or maybe even twice) implying higher absorption.  This could
> also explain the differences to JA that W7RH noted versus you.