From AZ working to the west on 160 is best at our sunrise. Propagation, hence
noise, to the east is gone and we observe an often spectacular peak. I made a
marginal KH1 QSO on 8/27 @ 1134. A few minutes later they were very Q5 and hung
in there for a good 20 minutes past my sunrise.
I was surprised to hear and work them, for a "no-question-about-it" contact,
last night @0618Z, which is their sunrise. I had solid S8 noise, but they were
S9 + a little.
I now have them on 9 slots, but I'll trade them all for one Mt. Athos, who has
been Q4 here exactly once in my 60 years of hamming.
Wes N7WS
On 6/28/2018 1:40 PM, ab2tc wrote:
Hi Andy and all,
Good for you, congratulations on nailing them on 160m. It looks like even on
20m they are at their best between midnight and 4am EDT. I have resigned
myself to some sleepless nights in order to nail them. For me it's an ATNO.
The propagation forecast site linked to on their web site correctly
predicted this, but I couldn't quite believe it until I saw the evidence on
the spotting cluster this morning. I have worked many of the nearby South
Pacific islands in the past but never in the middle of the night.
AB2TC - Knut
Elecraft mailing list wrote
For one data point, when I got up for other reasons this morning at 2:20
a.m., I turned on the radio, as I need KH1 on 160. They were very solid
copy on 1822.5, and easy to work, using my K3 and KPA500, with only an
inverted vee for TX and RX. I was surprised that they were solid copy, as
that's not usually my experience on 160.
73, andy ae6y
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