: Saturday Night I too came on for a
couple of hours on 160m during the CQ WW . . .Top Band wasn't at all noisy here
in Europe, although conditions weren'tnearly as good as during the week - most
signals were about 15dB down.I worked everyone I could hear (about 20 NA
stations, and a couple ofCaribbeans
I too came on for a couple of hours on 160m during the CQ WW . . .
Top Band wasn't at all noisy here in Europe, although conditions weren't
nearly as good as during the week - most signals were about 15dB down.
I worked everyone I could hear (about 20 NA stations, and a couple of
Caribbeans) .
Same situation here on S.Europe, back home when contest start and hear
only EU and Jeff VY2ZM loud i suppose band is on good shape but after
all dropping down , wake up on the middle of the night no signal at all
from NA or Caribean like the day before contest, very sad, i prefered go
on the
: Topband: Saturday night
Hi Top BandersI was dabbling in the CQ WW contest last night (Nov 24 UT) and
noted a few things that seemed quite different to me here in NE USA. The normal
situation at my sunset occurred. I could hear many many EU stations but almost
none of them could hear me. I am
David,
I was the 160 m operator at C6AGU Saturday night. During the week, ahead of
the contest, I was on 160 a few nights and worked 100-s of EU-s under good
conditions. But conditions here towards EU on Saturday night were poor: most
stations were weak, and the normally strong ones were just
Dave et all
Friday night was better to be sure than Saturday night. Here in the
deep south we got no sunset or sunrise bump. In fact early in the
evening there were almost no EU to be heard, a few Caribs which were
quickly worked through. I gave up around 0200 and set an alarm for 0500.
Dave
I’ll give you some more disappointment. At about 7 PM Saturday night (00Z) an
incredible noise came on and wiped out all of bands. Something local and from
the SW. Pointed my 10 m Yagi to the source. Killed my interest at that point
and went to bed.
Got going again at 1130z and the
I don’t go in for contests but I did spend some time on top band this morning.
From about 0600 to 0830 UTC. I was hearing a lot of E Coast at very good
strengths plus several in the Caribbean. Unfortunately because of the universal
use of 599 reports to everybody in contests (a practice that I
> On Nov 24, 2019, at 10:47 AM, David Olean wrote:
>
> . until my sunrise arpund 1200, I did a fair amount of
> listening but heard very little in the way of Pacific DX. I was
> operating un assisted so do not know who was QRV, but tuning across the
> band produced only two HI stations
Hi Top Banders
I was dabbling in the CQ WW contest last night (Nov 24 UT) and noted a
few things that seemed quite different to me here in NE USA. The normal
situation at my sunset occurred. I could hear many many EU stations but
almost none of them could hear me. I am used to that. I quit
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