Hi Roger,
Topband propagation to Europe was about as good as it gets this weekend, except Sunday night when it was significantly depressed. I compared your signal to the three other UK stations who were calling CQ at the end of the contest The strongest were GM5X and GW5R, both consistently about one S-unit stronger than you and G5W who was consistently just a few dB stronger. Your signals was about 569 during the entire time, good easy copy on clear frequencies. 73 Frank W3LPL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Kennedy" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 17, 2020 1:15:32 AM Subject: Topband: ARRL CW Contest I had forgotten it was a multiband contest, so I now appreciate that's why less NA stations are on calling CQ. Well I came on for a total of about 4 hours over the weekend . . . managed to work a total of 128 NA stations, so was pretty pleased with that. Apologies to any of you I couldn't copy . . . but bear in mind that - like many British stations - I only live in an ordinary street in a City, with a normal size garden (yard), with many houses within one wavelength. So I have a high noise level, and no room for Beverages or anything (just my homebrew Receiving Loop in the loft.) 73 Roger G3YRO _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
