Hi Dave, And here in the midwest (Indiana) it was really dead early this morning an hour or two before EU sunrise. I spotted DL5AXX who was peaking 6 dB above my noise floor at most at 0623 UTC, and no other EU stations heard as I recall, it was just dead.
Don (wd8dsb) On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 10:56 AM Artek Manuals <[email protected]> wrote: > Here in Florida in the evenings we get a fairly consistent opening to > Europe it begins about 1 hour BEFORE local Sunset (2215Z) , Peaks about > 1/2 hour before Sunset and then all but dies out on most nights by 15min > after official sunset. Later around 0200Z things slowly build back up > till around local sunrise Europe. Last night during this opening I > actually was seeing more EU' stations as I was NA? > > Our sunrise opening is more traditional sunrise +/- 15 minutes to Asia > and the Pacific Islands > > Cant say what it was before since the last tme I was on 160 from Florida > before 2019/2020 season was back in 1985-1990 time frame > > Dave NR1DX > > On 12/16/2020 7:16 AM, Kees Nijdam wrote: > > Nothing wrong with conditions. Yesterday afternoon I worked K9FD in > > Hawaii and this morning the west coast and WL7SJ. > > Good propagation to Japan also. > > > > Kees, PE5T > > > > Verzonden vanuit Mail voor Windows 10 > > > > Van: Roger Kennedy > > Verzonden: woensdag 16 december 2020 13:12 > > Aan: [email protected] > > Onderwerp: Topband: 160m Band opening phenomena > > > > > > Well Bob my own experience these days when working NA stations is that > the > > peak occurs at least 3 hours after Sunset and at least 3 hours before > > Sunrise. (and that is obviously not a Tropical path) > > > > Years ago there was definitely a peak both at their Sunset and our > > Sunrise, > > typically around 10dB . . . but I don't think I have noticed that for > > around > > a decade. As mentioned previously, signals seem to actually drop off > > around > > Sunrise (both ways) > > > > I obviously have no idea what has brought about this change . . . just > one > > of the many mysteries of 160m Propagation ! > > > > Roger G3YRO > > > > > > _________________ > > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > > Reflector > > > > _________________ > > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > > Reflector > > -- > Dave [email protected] www.ArtekManuals.com > > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
