Topband: Wednesday CW DX Activity Night

[Roger Kennedy]

> So, when you say 0030Z, you mean 0030Z on Thursday, correct?

> 73 de Lee, AA4GA

Yes . . technically (because that's still part of Wednesday night over here
. . . and it's certainly Wednesday night over there!)

Roger G3YRO


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Topband: TB conditions at VE6WZ 2021 season

[VE6WZ_Steve]

With the discussion about declining condx on TB, I decided to do a log extract 
to compare the last few years here at VE6WZ.
I am fairly QRV on 160m CW, often calling CQ most nights and checking the spots 
for EU.

Its very easy to do a log extract based on a time period and using a pivot 
table in Excel I can sort by continent and band.
I filter for Europe QSOs only, since working Japan and VK-ZL is less 
challenging and influenced by geo-magnetic conditions here in VE6.
The trans-polar path to EU is strongly effected by even the slightest elevation 
in solar wind and AU activity.

Indeed, 2021 has been noticeably muted compared to 2020 and 2019.

This season 5 months since August:
484 EU CW QSOs, with 144 unique callsigns

Last year (2020) 5 months same period:
1,185 EU CW QSOs, with 318 unique callsigns

2 years ago (2019) 5 months same period:
1,445 EU CW QSOs, with 492 unique callsigns

This season (2021) there have been very few direct north polar openings into 
Russia, and even the N. EU path has been muted.
Noticeably absent has been our early morning trans-polar EU openings this year.
The last few weeks, even with an elevated solar wind, there have been a few EU 
openings.
However, most signals have been strongly skewed southward with the east 
Beverage being much better than the direct 21 or 45 deg broadside pairs. 
(almost a 90 deg path skew!)
These skewed signals have also been extremely weak, somewhat distorted and 
un-stable making it very difficult to pull out the calls.  Also, when using the 
east RX, more of the US mid-west and gulf coast T-storms will increase the QRN 
and make copy more difficult.

Certainly the declining trans-polar condx are not surprising as we move up into 
the next solar cycle, but there is still a fair bit of activity and DX to 
worked on 160m CW.
Here is my annual list of the most worked EU stations.  I really think is a 
list of the most active TB operators in EU.
Sure, there are likely many other EU ops that are lurking on 160m, but the guys 
at the top of this list are almost always heard calling CQ and trying to keep 
the band alive.
“If no one calls CQ, then no one is going to work anyone”

The “Top 38 EU logged at VE6WZ” list for 2021:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RiodAQYiuzDshoA-7i-_Ck7j0EJ8QtVb/view?usp=sharing
 


73, de steve ve6wz
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Re: Topband: Wednesday CW DX Activity Night

[Lee Hiers]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 3:11 PM Roger Kennedy 
wrote:


> Several people have messaged me direct, asking me to clarify what I mean by
> "Wednesday Night".
>
> I mean Wednesday evening and all night, ie through to Thursday morning.
>
> I personally find propagation is best to NA from around 0030Z, so that's
> when I tend to come on the band (rather than around our Sunrise on Thursday
> morning . . . but that is still what I call Wednesday night)


So, when you say 0030Z, you mean 0030Z on Thursday, correct?

73 de Lee, AA4GA
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Topband: Wednesday CW DX Activity Night

[Roger Kennedy]

Several people have messaged me direct, asking me to clarify what I mean by
"Wednesday Night".

I mean Wednesday evening and all night, ie through to Thursday morning.

I personally find propagation is best to NA from around 0030Z, so that's
when I tend to come on the band (rather than around our Sunrise on Thursday
morning . . . but that is still what I call Wednesday night)

73 Roger G3YRO


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Re: Topband: Wednesday CW DX Activity Night

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

http://beta.reversebeacon.net/main.php

73, Pete N4ZR
Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network
web server at.
For spots, please use your favorite
"retail" DX cluster.

On 1/4/2022 1:58 PM, Artek Manuals wrote:

Roger

I am not exactly sure which BETA RBN sight you are referring to. Could 
you post a link?


Generally speaking here in the deep south of NA I can clearly see the 
affects of the up swing in the sunspot cycle. The prior two years on 
most evenings I could copy some EU at my sunset. The sunset openings 
to EU this season have been VERY rare in Florida. Sunrise openings on 
the Europe end of the path are far more numerous and reliable in 
occurrence. For many years I worked the EU/NA path with ease when I 
lived "up north ( in NH) . That all changed when I retired to the 
south and it is quite noticeable.


Dave

NR1DX

On 1/4/2022 1:25 PM, Roger Kennedy wrote:

Just another reminder . . .

Hope to see lots of stations on 160m tomorrow night.

(conditions were really good last night, with mine and other EU 
stations'

RBN reports from NA peaking over 40dB S/N ! But very little activity)

Oh and the new Beta RBN site is really good - previously I had RBN 
set to
show all English stations' signals in the US . . . but now it can 
display

ALL EU signals from any NA site.

73 Roger G3YRO



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Re: Topband: Wednesday CW DX Activity Night

[Artek Manuals]

Roger

I am not exactly sure which BETA RBN sight you are referring to. Could 
you post a link?


Generally speaking here in the deep south of NA I can clearly see the 
affects of the up swing in the sunspot cycle. The prior two years on 
most evenings I could copy some EU at my sunset. The sunset openings to 
EU this season have been VERY rare in Florida. Sunrise openings on the 
Europe end of the path are far more numerous and reliable in occurrence. 
For many years I worked the EU/NA path with ease when I lived "up north 
( in NH) . That all changed when I retired to the south and it is quite 
noticeable.


Dave

NR1DX

On 1/4/2022 1:25 PM, Roger Kennedy wrote:

Just another reminder . . .

Hope to see lots of stations on 160m tomorrow night.

(conditions were really good last night, with mine and other EU stations'
RBN reports from NA peaking over 40dB S/N ! But very little activity)

Oh and the new Beta RBN site is really good - previously I had RBN set to
show all English stations' signals in the US . . . but now it can display
ALL EU signals from any NA site.

73 Roger G3YRO



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Topband: Wednesday CW DX Activity Night

[Roger Kennedy]

Just another reminder . . .

Hope to see lots of stations on 160m tomorrow night.

(conditions were really good last night, with mine and other EU stations'
RBN reports from NA peaking over 40dB S/N ! But very little activity)

Oh and the new Beta RBN site is really good - previously I had RBN set to
show all English stations' signals in the US . . . but now it can display
ALL EU signals from any NA site.

73 Roger G3YRO



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