Topband: Topband INactivity

2011-03-01 Thread Diane and Edward Swynar
Good Day All, Is it just my singular imagination here, or has general activity on 160-meters declined significantly in the past few weeks...? With the exception of contests, the number of CW stations seems to be hit miss, at best, on the band anymore...even my plaintive general CQ calls in the

Re: Topband: Topband INactivity

2011-03-01 Thread Greg - ZL3IX
Hi Eddy, I would say that activity has been fairly normal, but propagation has been above average, especially over the CQ 160 SSB test. My log book has far more entries in it than for any other year since being in ZL (we arrived 10 years ago) Last weekend, John G3XRJ and I even managed an

Topband: Propagation for the SSB test?

2011-03-01 Thread Cecil Acuff
I know the list is mostly CW enthusiasts but how did propagation seem to you guys for the SSB test. A group of us operated Field Day style... generators and the works. Had a brief opening to EU in the evening and worked one VK early in the morning of the first day. Things didn't seem as good

Re: Topband: Topband Digest, Vol 99, Issue 1

2011-03-01 Thread Allan Greening
hi all ,being a new kid on the block, I think 160m is better than wot I was told!! in 9 months 96 dxcc/72 confirmed, es 34 WAZ WAZ cert #372 30 confirmed _ From: topband-boun...@contesting.com [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of topband-requ...@contesting.com Sent: