Topband: Solar Activity Topband

2012-01-28 Thread Eddy Swynar
Hi Guys, I'm hearing of all kinds of disruptions negative effects that the recent outbreak on ol' Sol's visage has been having upon the higher bands... Yet, conditions for transcontinental QSOs here during this weekend's ongoing running of the CQ 160 WW test have been very good...so far,

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2012-01-28 Thread Guy Olinger K2AV
Well, maybe they have been good at your QTH. Here, the conditions to Europe have been the worst in recent memory. Just fleeting peeps of Europe barely working through. Only honestly R5 signals were from Portugal. One G was R4, and the rest, what few of them there were, were R3. 73, Guy (Apex,

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2012-01-28 Thread Shoppa, Tim
Well, maybe they have been good at your QTH. Here, the conditions to Europe have been the worst in recent memory. Just fleeting peeps of Europe barely working through. Only honestly R5 signals were from Portugal. One G was R4, and the rest, what few of them there were, were R3. 73, Guy

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2012-01-28 Thread Guy Olinger K2AV
I'd say the conditions seemed good from East of Mississippi to East of Mississippi. They were especially good from NC to MN and IA, go figure :). But conditions from NC to the west coast were AWFUL. From PAC the usual 569, 579 KH6CC was R2 at best, and was only up to that elevated level for a

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2012-01-28 Thread George Taft
DITTO, Guy at W8RT (Southern MI) Ed, so you worked several NW stns (OR/WA) with good sigs?? Not here. Reason for lack of VE5, VE6, VE7 and KL7 QRV. Bum condx. 73 George W8UVZ (op at W8RT) Well, maybe they have been good at your QTH. Here, the conditions to Europe have been the worst

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2012-01-28 Thread Don Kirk
--- Guy Said : Yet, conditions for transcontinental QSOs here during this weekend's ongoing running of the CQ 160 WW test have been very good...so far, anyway. I too observed very good state side conditions last night from the Indianapolis area

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2012-01-28 Thread Gary and Kathleen Pearse
Pretty quiet up here in KL7 last eve…only sigs were between the Auroral zones, not across. Mainly 40M. Will try 160 test again tonight. Poor propagation culprit: http://helios.swpc.noaa.gov/ovation/# 73, Gary NL7Y '591 ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB

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2012-01-28 Thread Jim Brown
On 1/28/2012 3:32 PM, Don Kirk wrote: California was decent, but very little going up the West Coast into Oregon, Washington, That's because this is an east coast contest. Thanks to scoring rules, it's not much fun from west of the Rockies. I was on for a couple of hours early evening my

Re: Topband: Solar Activity Topband

2012-01-28 Thread jh-...@sbcglobal.net
: Topband: Solar Activity Topband To: topband@contesting.com Date: Saturday, January 28, 2012, 5:34 PM On 1/28/2012 3:32 PM, Don Kirk wrote:     California was decent, but very little going up the West Coast into Oregon, Washington, That's because this is an east coast contest. Thanks

Re: Topband: Solar Activity Topband

2012-01-28 Thread Ron vk3io
I have been reading this thread of comments with interest and here are some of my observations. From down under, in VK3. during this contest so far, I have been very surprised at the good signals heard when compared to the recent pre contest days. That is to say, not great, but good to NA in