Hi Dave Funnily enough, I am still finding that our Sunrise is very poor . . . rather than signals peaking, they seem to drop off compared to the general night-time signals (that never used to be the case - our Sunrise was always best for me)
The peak seems to be somewhat after your Sunset . . . around 23.30 for East Coast, and as the night spreads across the US, I work stations further west. Hope to work you again soon! 73 Roger G3YRO -----Original Message----- From: David Olean [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 02 November 2018 15:04 To: Roger Kennedy; [email protected] Subject: Re: Topband: Conditions and Activity I missed you last night, Roger I did try listening on the band 2 hours before my sunset and was surprised to hear a DL1 station at S7 or S8. It was an amazing signal at 19:42 UT. I just happened to be in the 160 shack working on some shelves for a test equipment bench. At my sunset, I heard VK6VZ on long path with a great real 559 signal. He was in for a tad over 15 minutes, but too much EU QRM to get through. That was my first long path signal heard on 160. I have also heard JA stations at my sunrise three days in a row. That is a normally impossible path! I promise to be more active in hopes of working plenty of rare DX as well as talk to the many friends I am making on 160! What a great band! In a weak moment, I even tried some FT8 but had a miserable time as the software seemed all screwed up. I could not send RR to answering stations, and it took me a few minutes to realize that the FOX/HOUND push buttons had been activated! What a dope I am at times. The FT-8 adventure was short lived and back on CW I found a station in Andorra for a new country! I am up to 193 now. I will try to get on for EU sunrise in the coming days too. I am so happy that 160 condx are getting so FB. I hope to make the most of them. Thanks for all of your efforts. Dave K1WHS On 11/2/2018 1:10 PM, Roger Kennedy wrote: > Good to hear the band open most nights this week, and a reasonable number of > NA stations coming on CW! Worked my old friend Dave, AA0RS for the first > time in ages. > > And I had a great chat on SSB with Jeff VY2ZM last night . . . he's > always such a great signal over here, and was peaking S9 +20dB ! > (shame there weren't any other NA stations calling in) > > Hope there will be a lot more NA stations on 160m on CW and SSB over > the weekend. > > Roger G3YRO > > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
