Last night was the best I've experienced on 160. Well, okay, I haven't been on the band in any kind of seriousness until recently, but still...
Gosh, when I tuned the band I almost immediately came across OH0Z! Hearing Europe on CW is very rare for me. Jim, W7FI, keeps watch on solar activity and alerted me to the possibility of good propagation. Good thing I listened. I worked 20 stations during the opening, the farthest was in UA3... and I got him on CW! I worked eight new ones last night. Need more of that. Wish I had a better receive antenna. I was told that I had a lot of callers on FT8 that my system didn't decode. 73, Paul, K7CW -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 10/19/18, VE6WZ_Steve <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Topband: 160m Activity To: "160 reflector" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, October 19, 2018, 8:46 AM As Tree said in his post, last night Topband was very alive! Last night 54 EU made it into the VE6WZ log on TB. Just exceptional condx. 20 min before my SS at 00:24z LA1MFA was the first in the log, and the band was jumping until I QRT at 0:600z. There were many "first time in my log” calls which was nice. I guess everyone is not on FT-8! I am now TX on my new 2 el Parasitic array and it seems to be preforming well. I think the extra 4 dB gain to EU is helping. I was RX diversity with the 1000’ EU Beverage and 9 circle RX array. The band was dead quiet…..I could almost "hear a pin drop”! Lets hope condx hold for a great winter season. 73, de steve ve6wz. _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
