I‘m about 160 miles NE of Jim WS6X and was on last night at the same time as he was.
Like Jim, I had no problems working R3LA or LZ1PM. LZ1PM Was holding court for a long time last night! I barely had a QSO with Roger G3YRO, and I was just about to give up when he got my call right. Usually I have no problem working him. F6ARC Was nothing more than a whisper at my place, and after a few times I moved on down the dial. I heard one or two other stations from England but was unable to work them. I concur with Jim’s comment that propagation into eastern EU wasn’t bad but not as good into western EU. Running a KW into my INV-L, and my RX antenna is a HI-Z 3. I noted 3V8 was on the air last night….. unfortunately, I noticed it this morning…… maybe tonight! 73 Mark K3MSB On Wed, Nov 14, 2018, 10:45 AM Jim - WS6X <ws6x....@gmail.com wrote: > This morning from 0000 - 0230 (Tuesday evening, local) conditions were > interesting here in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. Early on I copied > numerous Western EU working NP2J, and F6ARC was his usual beacon strength. > > Around 0200 I heard R3LA with a big signal and immediately turned on the > linear. I got impatient with the 3 minute warm-up, so tossed my 85 Watt > signal into the pile. Much to my surprise, he came back to me and gave me a > 559. Twenty minutes later LZ1PM was booming in, and I easily worked him > with > a kW. > > Oddly though, Roger, G3YRO was a steady S4-5 throughout the evening, but I, > and numerous others, could not work him. (I was using the full legal > limit.) > > So from my end, conditions to EU seemed spotty. Pretty good to Eastern EU, > not so hot to Western EU. From this QTH so far, this season has been a > mixed > bag. Many days of very poor condx, and several when Western EU was easy to > work, but Eastern EU was missing. Zero days of wide open to EU condx. > > Keeping my fingers crossed... > > Jim, WS6X > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector