Re: Topband: Question about KH1 to EU QSO possibilities with respect to auroral oval

2018-07-15 Thread W0MU Mike Fatchett
IARU was going on and lots of people are on 6m for E skip season.  I have been leaving my rcv on 6m not 160 lately. W0MU On 7/14/2018 7:50 PM, Grant Saviers wrote: Agree. At my QTH 47.6 N (Seattle) the oval is almost always in the way to EU so long path on 80 is more reliable winter months

Re: Topband: Question about KH1 to EU QSO possibilities with respect to auroral oval

2018-07-14 Thread Grant Saviers
Agree. At my QTH 47.6 N (Seattle) the oval is almost always in the way to EU so long path on 80 is more reliable winter months if the EU's hang around for the west coast sunrise. So far EU on 160 has been very difficult. Not complaining since I was one of the lucky 120 that worked KH1 on

Re: Topband: Question about KH1 to EU QSO possibilities with respect to auroral oval

2018-07-14 Thread Clive GM3POI
Rick, I live at about 59 deg North and also have operated from T2 and T32 of which T32 must be similar to KH1. At T32 my guess on propagation is that we could expect in a 4 week on air trip, four EU openings of one sort or another. On that basis the KH1 trip may get one or none, on a short

Topband: Question about KH1 to EU QSO possibilities with respect to auroral oval

2018-07-14 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
There was a lot of discussion about the Baker Is. Dxpedition implying that the main impediment as to where they could work was mutual darkness. Here in W6, we have many hours of mutual darkness with EU, yet we rarely hear EU on 160 or even 80 meters. (Except 80 meter long path during our