I felt results to EU were average to above average. I was very surprised and pleased when two EU's were among the first replies to my CQ's.
I was very surprised in other direction, in initial hours how few midwesterners were calling in. Usually I rack up several W9's with my first CQ's although it is well before their sundown. Pretty soon I figured out it must be thunderstorm activity in midwest. In initial hours I was not hearing much thunderstorm noise myself, but for a while around 0300-0400Z there were a couple times I ripped my headphones off and threw them on the ground myself, the lightning noise was so bad, even though I was far away from the bad weather. Other than that hour I did not feel hindered by thunderstorm noise myself, but I'm sure a lot of folks were scared to even plug in their antenna. I worked a couple loud and easy W6's and W7's but not many at all. I think this may have been a very rare year where I worked a lot more EU than W6's and W7's. I just looked at my reversebeacon reports and I feel I did very well to EU, much better than expected given my few reversebeacon spots in EU. Last night (night after Stew), SM5EDX had huge signal on 160M and I worked him easy with 100W. Tim N3QE On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Art Snapper <[email protected]> wrote: > I was a little disappointed with conditions here in Michigan last night. > It seemed more like the Summer Stew with the lightning static from the > storms in Texas and the Upper Mississippi Valley. > > I'll refrain from any comments on manmade climate change. > > 73 > Art NK8X > > ᐧ > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
