Re: Topband: Top Band: Stew Perry Contest
The Stew was a nice evening here in Oregon - although, yes conditions were poor. During the evening on the first night, I believe the K index was up - and it felt like I was running QRP. Signals were not very good at all to the East coast and I noticed that I didn't hear any stations from Minnesota. Decided to go get some sleep and got up again for the East Coast sunrise. Conditions seemed to improve - but the signals from the Southeast were much stronger from those in the Northern part of the country. No chance for Europe and only one JA made it into my log. I did hear CX6VM and perhaps got a "?" out of him, but no QSO. ZF2VE seemed very easy to work. Missed hearing any of the NP2 stations. Tree N6TR / K7RAT On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 12:59 PM VE6WZ_Steve wrote: > A VE6WZ 160m log extract and excel pivot table shows a remarkable > correlation with solar activity and trans-polar DX. > > This season for the 3 months from August to now I have had 3 CW QSOs with > EU. (OZ4MM, OK1CF and OM2XW) > Last year, 2021 for the same 3 months I had 273 EU QSOs, > In 2020 for the same 3 months I had 412 EU QSOs > and in 2019 for the same 3 months I logged 122 EU QSOs > > I am very active on TB, and even when not CQ, I will be watching the RBN > spots and/or looking at the 160m waterfall to see if there is a band > opening to Europe (even using my iPhone when watching TV). > These statistics are not related to my personal level of activity. If the > band is open to EU, I will know it. I have my “eye on the band" pretty much > every night during the winter. > The trans-polar path to EU has simply shut down this year. > Entirely as expected. > To be clear, this does NOT mean 160m DX is done, and in fact SA, Japan and > VK-ZL-OC remains very workable on a regular basis. Even through the summer. > These are mostly non-polar paths. Just like east coast NA working EU. > From VE6 the EU path is directly through the AU doughnut, so any > significant increase in the geo-mag heat will shut things down….in a hurry. > > I was only QRV for the SP contest last night for about 30min in the > evening and listened a bit this morning. > Indeed conditions were poor. Even the east coast NA was weak. > > 73, de steve ve6wz > > > > > > On 10/23/2022 10:47 AM, Patrick Parmentier wrote: > >> Yes, the conditions remain below last year's level . > > > > As we continue upward on the solar cycle, HF gets better, MF continues > to gets worse. > > > > 73, Jim K9YC > > > > _ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Top Band: Stew Perry Contest
On 10/23/2022 12:57 PM, VE6WZ_Steve wrote: A VE6WZ 160m log extract and excel pivot table shows a remarkable correlation with solar activity and trans-polar DX. Thanks for your analysis, Steve. Very telling, especially from your great station. 73, Jim K9YC _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Top Band: Stew Perry Contest
A VE6WZ 160m log extract and excel pivot table shows a remarkable correlation with solar activity and trans-polar DX. This season for the 3 months from August to now I have had 3 CW QSOs with EU. (OZ4MM, OK1CF and OM2XW) Last year, 2021 for the same 3 months I had 273 EU QSOs, In 2020 for the same 3 months I had 412 EU QSOs and in 2019 for the same 3 months I logged 122 EU QSOs I am very active on TB, and even when not CQ, I will be watching the RBN spots and/or looking at the 160m waterfall to see if there is a band opening to Europe (even using my iPhone when watching TV). These statistics are not related to my personal level of activity. If the band is open to EU, I will know it. I have my “eye on the band" pretty much every night during the winter. The trans-polar path to EU has simply shut down this year. Entirely as expected. To be clear, this does NOT mean 160m DX is done, and in fact SA, Japan and VK-ZL-OC remains very workable on a regular basis. Even through the summer. These are mostly non-polar paths. Just like east coast NA working EU. From VE6 the EU path is directly through the AU doughnut, so any significant increase in the geo-mag heat will shut things down….in a hurry. I was only QRV for the SP contest last night for about 30min in the evening and listened a bit this morning. Indeed conditions were poor. Even the east coast NA was weak. 73, de steve ve6wz > > On 10/23/2022 10:47 AM, Patrick Parmentier wrote: >> Yes, the conditions remain below last year's level . > > As we continue upward on the solar cycle, HF gets better, MF continues to > gets worse. > > 73, Jim K9YC > _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Top Band: Stew Perry Contest
> I spent a couple of hours in the evening working EU and best DX was > working VK6GX who called me. > > Went on later after midnight but NA signals were pretty much non existent. > > Regards > > Paul MM0ZBH > > > > On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 at 19:20, Jim Brown wrote: > >> On 10/23/2022 10:47 AM, Patrick Parmentier wrote: >> > Yes, the conditions remain below last year's level . >> >> As we continue upward on the solar cycle, HF gets better, MF continues >> to gets worse. >> >> 73, Jim K9YC >> >> >> _ >> Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband >> Reflector >> > _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Top Band: Stew Perry Contest
On 10/23/2022 10:47 AM, Patrick Parmentier wrote: Yes, the conditions remain below last year's level . As we continue upward on the solar cycle, HF gets better, MF continues to gets worse. 73, Jim K9YC _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Top Band: Stew Perry Contest
Yes, the conditions remain below last year's level . Just before mu sunrise I only worked K1KI , K0DI and K1ZZ but they were much weaker than usual ... Pat ON7PQ . -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces+on7pq=telenet...@contesting.com] Namens Roger Kennedy Verzonden: zondag 23 oktober 2022 19:25 Aan: topband@contesting.com Onderwerp: Topband: Top Band: Stew Perry Contest Well the poor DX conditions on 160m seem to be persisting . . . I had a listen on the band several times during last night . . . but didn't hear a single DX station (although I did have quite a high noise level). But I also didn't hear any of the few Europeans on the band working any DX either. Roger G3YRO _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Top Band: Stew Perry Contest
I worked two JA's this morning near the end of the contest. However, their signals were not very strong. One of them, big gun JA5DQH, I had easily worked on phone last year. But I would say that the main problem with the fall edition of the contest is simply limited activity. By early in the evening, I found that I couldn't get any response to my CQ's and I could not find any S opportunities. 73 Rick N6RK On 10/23/2022 10:24 AM, Roger Kennedy wrote: Well the poor DX conditions on 160m seem to be persisting . . . I had a listen on the band several times during last night . . . but didn't hear a single DX station (although I did have quite a high noise level). But I also didn't hear any of the few Europeans on the band working any DX either. Roger G3YRO _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: Top Band: Stew Perry Contest
Well the poor DX conditions on 160m seem to be persisting . . . I had a listen on the band several times during last night . . . but didn't hear a single DX station (although I did have quite a high noise level). But I also didn't hear any of the few Europeans on the band working any DX either. Roger G3YRO _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
