Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m CW Activity Night

2023-02-21 Thread uy0zg via Topband
Hi Read the impressions: https://www.3830scores.com/showrumor.php?arg=2DalzKyaiymc0 " Not a single NA signal moved my S-meter. It felt like working EME on 144 MHz in old days. We moved our BEVs on a slightly different location(TNX S57AL, S53CC, S53BB and S55OO) but it was much noisier as

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m CW Activity Night

2023-02-08 Thread David Olean
I was on for EU Sunrise on Monday night/Tuesday morning, and found condx excellent.  I got home from a long 12 hour road trip at 05:30 UT and found signals were great. I even worked SM4IVE who was one of my 144 MHz EME contacts back in the 1980's. It was great to work Lars on 160 meters. You

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m CW Activity Night

2022-12-27 Thread kq2m
Dave, I feel your pain. I have had similar situations in Western, CT in 2011, 2012 and then again in 2014. During CQWWSSB in 2011 we got a freak snowstorm starting with temps at 34F and then falling to 19F overnight - heavy wet snow at 4" - 5" per our took out thousands of trees in full

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m CW Activity Night

2022-12-27 Thread David Olean
I am starting to feel "shell- shocked".   I had two storms come through here in rapid succession. Storm #1 produced incredibly heavy wet snow. It caused many trees to suffer with large broken limbs. The snow depth was 13.5 inches. It really stuck to the trees. All of my eight beverage antennas