Dietmar,
Like many others in the eastern part of the USA I have been trying to
work you on 160m CW before and after my sunrise (1238Z now). Today
(24Nov) was the first time your signal was actually Q5 for me, but you
could not hear the large pileup calling you. I expect a QSO will be
GM topbanders
started at 10:00 not to miss KP4AA again but no luck. ZL and JA skimmer with
low values and not reported from US.
After 13:00 band opened a little to the southern US with one TX and 2x CA.
Nothing from the north. WA7LNW showed good
signal strength at his sunrise but no QSOs. We
Hi Dietmar
Was able to make a CW contact with ZL1AZ at his SS, 0715 UTC Thursday.
I am in Northern New Jersey so an 8900 mile 2 way QSO to New Zealand.
The propagation is there. Just need to get thru the noise (basically). I
have a strong bias toward CW and only resort to FT8 when the DX
Interestingly, conditions on the west coast seemed pretty good this
morning around our sunrise. I was able to decode HS5NMF between -8 and
-5 and 9M6NA got as high as +1. I suspect both could have been heard
reasonably well on CW. OTOH, the QRN level on their end might have
precluded 2-way
On 11/22/2023 1:43 PM, Dietmar Kasper wrote:
As soon as I was away the station was hijacked by the FT-lovers to play their
computer games.
It is long past time for us to grow past prejudices and learn to use new
techniques. This all reminds me of the fighting against the adoption of
that
GM topbanders
propagation was not good. No US on CW but terrible crashes from thunderstorms
between Singapore and Tarawa.
The complete north was a thunderstorm, just see
https://www.accuweather.com/en/tl/national/weather-radar
Took my free time what actually was adicted to sleep to improve US
