QSL Kenny. Of course I can only speak of action in ZF this weekend but I was hearing EU 1 to 1.5 hours before SS. It was, obviously, the big gun stations but good copy.
Regarding TK0C I obviously have no data to support any conclusion. Your signal was continuously very strong in ZF regardless of the time I “tuned by”. 73 Joel ZF2ZN > On Dec 1, 2025, at 1:32 PM, Kenny Silverman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Joel, nice 160 results! The Caribbean had much better EU conditions than > up here in Virginia. > > Getting back to my original post: TK sunrise is about 0630z, but I was > getting TK0C-5 spots almost 2 hours after their sunrise. That just seemed > weird unless they were repeating spots from other skimmers in EU? > > <image.png> > > > Regards , Kenny K2KW > >> On Dec 1, 2025, at 1:13 PM, Joel Harrison <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Nick, >> >> I was the 160 meter op at ZF5T. Thanks for the Q and glad to put you in our >> log. >> >> Condx from ZF Friday evening to EU were very gud but around 0330z to 0400z >> the band went pretty much dead to EU. There was no EU SR peak. >> >> Saturday around 0130z we had horrible QRN from a storm somewhere in the >> Caribbean that made copy on 160 and 80 near impossible. It calmed down >> around 0300z but condx were very bad to EU and sigs weak. >> >> To the west our furthest contact was with KH6J and one other station on >> Hawaii but that was it. No JA’s or anything else. We had JA’s spotted on the >> cluster but they were being picked up by a JA skimmer. >> >> Overall it was a good weekend but could have been great with some better >> condx and no QRN during the Saturday evening session. We finished with 810 >> Q’s, 18 Zones, and 75 countries on 160 from ZF for the weekend. >> >> 73 Joel W5ZN / ZF2ZN >> >>>> On Nov 30, 2025, at 8:02 AM, uy0zg via Topband <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello >>> >>> >>> From Saturday to Sunday (23:31 - 00:09 UTC) I managed to find a window to >>> the USA and Canada. >>> >>> WKD 12 stations (10 QSOs on CQ). >>> >>> --- >>> Nick, UY0ZG >>> http://www.topband.in.ua >>> >>> Kenny Silverman писал(а) 2025-11-29 17:08: >>>> I (and others) were getting spotted hours after sunrise in TK. Were they >>>> forwarding spots from other skimmers in western EU? >>>> Let’s hope conditions are better tonight! It was amazing to hear EU very >>>> well all night , but even the USA big guns weren’t being heard in EU. >>>> Regards , Kenny K2KW >>>> _________________ >>>> Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector >>> >>> _________________ >>> Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
