GM So far this Winter season, we have had some very interesting long path conditions around 1100z each morning (to things like BU2AQ, XU7ACY, 9M2AX, DU1/JJ5GMJ, HL5IVL)) - and in the afternoons/early evenings 9M2AX, YC0LOW, XU7ACY, and quite a few JA's including JA8ISU/7J4AAL/JA5AQC have been able to be worked around JA sunrise (2120-2215z) on the SE path. This latter stuff is primarily a Northeast/New England event limited by a very narrow windiw of overlapping darkness in the Northern Hemisphere with Japan that occurs each year from about Dec 10 - Jan 10th only..
Over the pole activity has been down but T88OW and H44KJ were good copy on better days - which have kept up some real interest in the band. Webmaster WW2DX recently added some new audio clips of some of this stuff to my website at http://www.VY2ZM.com and you can listen in if interested to the newer stuff at the audio clips/sound bites tab on the website. Let's hope for continued good condx on Topband as even though we are at or vy near a solar maxima, DX'ing has been remarkably good on Topband. With 3C0 soon to come on the air there has been alot to go after. Good Dx to all - CU on the band. 73 JEFF VY2ZM [email protected] _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
