According to the latest Clublog DX Report, 20-meters is still the money band;
34% of all reported contacts made during the last 7 days were on 20. Of those,
41% were DX contacts. Second was 40-meters. Thirty meters was actually fourth,
behind 6-meters.
Wes N7WS
On 6/15/2018 11:02 AM, Bryon Paul Veal NØAH wrote:
I have no doubt they will be successful on the lowbands with what should
hopefully be an ambient free RF zone- Despite the short windows, and my guess
30M will be their best band, if you want to call that a lowband. I do- The
greyline characteristics in crap conditions are well proven. I only say this
because I am comparing my experience on Lord Howe in April of 1998 VK9LZ one
man DX’pedition. Condx sucked- With K=8, A up to 70+, and SF never broke 70. I
worked 30M across every greyline I had during my darkness- 40 was ok, 80 was
poor, and I didn’t have a topband antenna. I only had daytime propagation on 17
and 20 meters North to JA, and a number of PAC islands, except one day 17M
opened briefly to stateside. 30M was over 50% of my 2,432 QSO’s made in a week
operating around 18-20 hours a day/night in a hut. Used a Cushcraft AP8A and no
amp. I am always surprised what 30m can do and I hope we see some fast rates
on CW excluding the FT8 mess. Won’t be an ATNO for me, but will be interesting
to see the topband results- It will certainly contribute to the better
understanding TopBand propagation. I get FT-8, I really do- but just another
means of taking away time from the pure essence of CW from 160M.
73 Paul N0AH
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