I considered Conditions pretty good last night from Midwest US into Europe
(definitely above normal) and was amazed how easy it was for me running my
typical CW with 100 watts. Unfortunately I fell asleep at 0200 UTC so only
took a little advantage of the good conditions prior to that time.
Don
I was able to copy OE3DIA last night. Any time
W6 can copy EU, conditions are at least "good". He
had a huge pileup going and I didn't work him,
although I only called for a few minutes.
(If I had worked him, then I would say "great"
conditions, HI.)
BTW, I was copying on the TX vertical. No
It was the best opening I have heard since getting on FT8. I have
missed plenty of nights though.
Here is a map of what was decoded. That would be calls I decoded and
stations that decoded my call.
It is interesting to see the opening in this manner. I did not stay up
long enough to
I forgot the link to the map
https://i.imgur.com/EnylEMd.png
On 12/1/2017 3:39 AM, Roger Kennedy wrote:
Well I came on 160 when I got in from a gig last night, around 23.30Z . . .
And ended up working 35 NA stations! Including across to Texas and several
Midwest states . . . brilliant!
Hi Roger
I would suspect activity.
This weened during the CQ WW CW contest our club worked 86 countries on
15M. We were running 100W into a 3 element beam. Nice openings to Africa
and a delightful long path opening to the Pacific around 2100Z Saturday.
The sun spot number was 0.
I
I was happy to work two “new to me” European callsigns on 160M last night and
heard many of the EU topband regulars warming up for this weekends contest.
Seemed decent enough conditions to me.
80M seemed particularly good last night to Asiatic Russia.
Tim N3QE
> On Dec 1, 2017, at 5:39 AM,
Well I came on 160 when I got in from a gig last night, around 23.30Z . . .
And ended up working 35 NA stations! Including across to Texas and several
Midwest states . . . brilliant!
However . . . was it good conditions? Or just the fact that a lot of
stations were active?
I note that my
