On thursday night conditions here in w1 land were outstanding! J28MD (cw) and 5V7RU (ft8) got in the log and I heard HS0ZOY (ft8) at his SR at -5 for about 5 minutes. first HS I have ever heard.
hope i get a chance with T88. > On Nov 5, 2022, at 12:00 PM, David Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings Topbanders. . . > > I've spent a considerable amount of time on watch this past week for J28MD on > Topband (CW). While they've spent a fair amount of time on TB I haven't yet > had success yet in spite of my ongoing efforts. I believe it was this past > Tuesday night when Joel, W5ZN, said they appeared briefly out of the noise > (about 10 minutes or so and did have success with his BSEF-8 and Hi-Z 8 > arrays in diversity) then disappeared the rest of the evening. Wednesday > night's opening to NA was much longer starting on the East coast and slowly > sweeping westward with quite a few NA making it in the log (EC + 5's, 8's, & > 9s', VE). Unfortunately the prop just never quite made it this far west. > They barely peaked out of the noise here in Iowa Wednesday evening (NA time) > just enough to get me excited and dump my call a few times hoping for even a > marginal QSO. . . but no cigar. It's a little frustrating to see that they > always QRT about 30 minutes or so prior to their SR but they get credit for > being on faithfully on CW and FT8 as well. I know they're getting close to > wrapping up but hopefully they'll be on (CW) again this evening. > > It's been good to have some DX operations QRV and bring some much needed life > to TB (which sure hasn't had much). . .TY0, 5V, and now J28, A3, and T88. > The prop has been very poor. CQing here in the evening brings no DX > responses and only a handful of EU EBN hits so far this season. Thankfully > mornings have activity from our very stalwart VK friends (VK3HJ, VK2WF, > VK6GX, VK6IR, VK6LW, others) but only a handful of JA QSOs so far this season > (8 to be exact). JA1LZR gets kudos for being QRV almost every morning (NA > time), but without much prop, I think only limited success. I have yet to > hit the VK4CT RBN CQing here in the mornings. I don't think this is totally > attributable to the increased SFI. . . prop from here was only marginally > better two seasons ago when the SFI was very low. > > All that said, I encourage everyone to get on and make some noise. > > 73. . . Dave, W0FLS (in Iowa) > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
