Re: Topband: Morning (W6 time) opening to European Russian today at ~1300Z during ARRL contest
Hi, Amazing experience over the past weekend. Mostly SWLing because I'm a bit late this season and my 27m Vertical is still not ready to xmit (no radials...), but managed to put some Beverage's before the weekend, including 330deg NW direction. So yesterday, VE6WZ was readable here already at 12:50 UTC, almost 2 hrs before my sunset... But what was the most interesting: the signal peaked abt 1 hour later, and than Steve got weaker while other VE6 stations came trough: VE6BBP and VE6WQ, who was the strongest at the end of the contest. I don't know how much distance is between all these 3 stations, but propagation was never the same for them and each station had best signal at different time. Here are some recordings from Sunday afternoon: VE6WZ: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kIpRMjBAAx6cQ994sf-utgEiPJ514djj/view?usp=sharing VE6BBP: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KDct-kh9X1ipFzqP8hkEOBTXdNPCYp3q/view?usp=sharing KL7SB: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TlczTE8DG941bzb8aEvN5Z1wOvA0SFTO/view?usp=sharing I've finally managed to work only KL7SB, who was able to hear my high angle INV V signal... The vertical should be ready within few days, CU on the band! 73's Mac SP2XF / SN2M -Oryginalna wiadomość- From: Peter Sundberg Sent: Monday, December 09, 2019 9:29 AM To: Richard (Rick) Karlquist Cc: topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: Morning (W6 time) opening to European Russian today at ~1300Z during ARRL contest You were a very good signal here Rick all the time you were in darkness. Unfortunately you never heard me and I know there were other callers as well from northern Europe :-) Super signals from all over NA this past weekend. The band never died as long as there was darkness over the entire, or some part of the, continent. Interesting to note, after sunrise here at 65.4N stations from the east coast, who still were in complete darkness, got noticeable weaker while the mid west and west coast stations got stronger. This follows the trend I've seen befor. The band was packed with NA signals, all the way up and above 1850 kHz. Two types of QSB were predominant. The usual very slow QSB with nulls and peaks that last for more than a minute, and the very rapid QSB which takes signals in and out of the noise in 10 seconds or so. This was especially noticeable on KH6/KU1CW - in the morning hours my time very short but strong peaks, come noon and afternoon more or less solid copy all the way until sunrise in KH6. It is always interesting to hear west coast NA working Asia while I am hearing both sides equally strong. The problem for me is that you guys in NA are predominantly (of course) listening with antennas pointing to Asia, so it is not easy to get a QSO with you at that time of day. Despite very good signals at this end.. but a bunch of us up north were indeed trying hard to get your attention.. :-) Too many calls to mention who stood outover time. But looking at the most difficult path straight over the pole K7CW, N7ZG, N7DD, N2IC, W6AYC, N6RK, KH6/KU1CW, KL7FB plus the amazing signals all day from the potent VE6 crowd - VE6WZ, VE6WQ, VE6BBP. And K0RF, like a beacon at all times. As I've said these are just a few calls picked out from all the stations heard over the weekend. I worked 55 of you, so not bad considering I was only on from early morning and I did not burn the any end of the candle in the middle of the night. This weekend is pretty much on par with the way the band was in 2011. That's the year that I made it to 49 states worked, only missing MS. This Sunday morning I heard N4OGW in MS working mainly NA stations before he suddenly disappeared, ouch..! :-) Let's hope these lovely band conditions continue well past The Stew and the CQ 160M CW ! 73 Peter SM2CEW At 02:35 2019-12-09, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote: 11 or so years ago, I worked UA3AGW at 1500Z during the ARRL contest using only 100 watts then. That was of course at a sunspot minimum. We are now at the next SS minimum and this morning in the 1300Z hour, I again worked UA3AGW who called me during the contest. I also worked RK4FF, UD4F, RM4F, RA4LW, and RW3PZ plus LY7M and UW2M. I would like to thank all the callers for sticking with me till I got your call, although some were armchair copy. I was using 1,500 watts today. I hope to see this opening again in the upcoming Stew Perry where it will worth a lot more than 5 points. Rick N6RK _ 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
Re: Topband: Morning (W6 time) opening to European Russian today at ~1300Z during ARRL contest
Certainly the skip has favored Northern paths for the last several days. We worked three Alaska stations since Friday - NL7S and KL7J on FT8 and KL7SB on CW in the contest. With only one CW QSO in KL7KY in 2013 it was an amazing adventure. KL7 was a new one for Helen! Hawaii was not that easy but managed to get KH6/KU1CW in contest and K9FD on FT8, well done Merv! Tried to get the remaining States during the contest weekend, succeeded with Wyoming but had not enough RF to get W0SD and K5HK. Anyway the beginning of this season is quite promising. 73/88 from us US5WE and Helen UR5WA >Понедельник, 9 декабря 2019, 8:36 UTC от Peter Sundberg : > > > >... Super signals from all over NA this past weekend. The band never died >as long as there was darkness over the entire, or some part of the, >continent. Interesting to note, after sunrise here at 65.4N stations >from the east coast, who still were in complete darkness, got >noticeable weaker while the mid west and west coast stations got >stronger. This follows the trend I've seen befor. > >Let's hope these lovely band conditions continue well past The Stew >and the CQ 160M CW ! > >73 >Peter SM2CEW > > > >At 02:35 2019-12-09, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote: >>11 or so years ago, I worked UA3AGW at 1500Z during the ARRL contest >>using only 100 watts then. That was of course at a sunspot minimum. >> >>We are now at the next SS minimum and this morning in the 1300Z hour, >>I again worked UA3AGW who called me during the contest. >>I also worked RK4FF, UD4F, RM4F, RA4LW, and RW3PZ plus LY7M and UW2M. >>I would like to thank all the callers for sticking with me till >>I got your call, although some were armchair copy. >>I was using 1,500 watts today. >> >>I hope to see this opening again in the upcoming Stew Perry >>where it will worth a lot more than 5 points. >> >>Rick N6RK >>_ >>Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector > > >_ >Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector -- 73, Victor Goncharsky US5WE/K1WE (UW5W in VHF contests, ex UB5WE), P.E. UARL Technical and VHF Committies DXCC Honor Roll #1 (Mixed, Phone), 10BDXCC, 8BWAS DXCC card checker (160 meters). _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Morning (W6 time) opening to European Russian today at ~1300Z during ARRL contest
Hi Nick When we worked, your signal was weaker than normal times. But still good to get you in the log! Regards, Mark, K1RX > On Dec 9, 2019, at 2:09 AM, uy0zg wrote: > > Hi > > The north and east of Ukraine really worked in the evening W6 / W7 and VE6 + > KH6 + KL7. > > > Really did it - UW2M, UR5AS, UX1UA. > UW5ZO succeeded in QSO with KL7SB. > > There are no others who from Ukraine could hear WC in this ARRL 160 ! > --- > It was much worse in my south. > > I have 69 qso and only at night or in the morning. > > More than 40 stations from the USA did not hear me - > > K5NA, W9RE, K3UA, K9CT,N4OGW, W2FU ,NR1DX... and further, further... > > But there were very good QSOs 3-4 zone - > K7RL, VE6WZ, N0NI, KV0Q,N0FW, NA8V, N8OO, WB9Z, K9NW, > AG4W, K4WI, W5MX, K4RO. > > Thanks > > Nick, UY0ZG > http://www.topband.in.ua > > Richard (Rick) Karlquist писал 2019-12-09 04:35: >> 11 or so years ago, I worked UA3AGW at 1500Z during the ARRL contest >> using only 100 watts then. That was of course at a sunspot minimum. >> We are now at the next SS minimum and this morning in the 1300Z hour, >> I again worked UA3AGW who called me during the contest. >> I also worked RK4FF, UD4F, RM4F, RA4LW, and RW3PZ plus LY7M and UW2M. >> I would like to thank all the callers for sticking with me till >> I got your call, although some were armchair copy. >> I was using 1,500 watts today. >> I hope to see this opening again in the upcoming Stew Perry >> where it will worth a lot more than 5 points. >> Rick N6RK >> _ >> 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
Re: Topband: Morning (W6 time) opening to European Russian today at ~1300Z during ARRL contest
You were a very good signal here Rick all the time you were in darkness. Unfortunately you never heard me and I know there were other callers as well from northern Europe :-) Super signals from all over NA this past weekend. The band never died as long as there was darkness over the entire, or some part of the, continent. Interesting to note, after sunrise here at 65.4N stations from the east coast, who still were in complete darkness, got noticeable weaker while the mid west and west coast stations got stronger. This follows the trend I've seen befor. The band was packed with NA signals, all the way up and above 1850 kHz. Two types of QSB were predominant. The usual very slow QSB with nulls and peaks that last for more than a minute, and the very rapid QSB which takes signals in and out of the noise in 10 seconds or so. This was especially noticeable on KH6/KU1CW - in the morning hours my time very short but strong peaks, come noon and afternoon more or less solid copy all the way until sunrise in KH6. It is always interesting to hear west coast NA working Asia while I am hearing both sides equally strong. The problem for me is that you guys in NA are predominantly (of course) listening with antennas pointing to Asia, so it is not easy to get a QSO with you at that time of day. Despite very good signals at this end.. but a bunch of us up north were indeed trying hard to get your attention.. :-) Too many calls to mention who stood outover time. But looking at the most difficult path straight over the pole K7CW, N7ZG, N7DD, N2IC, W6AYC, N6RK, KH6/KU1CW, KL7FB plus the amazing signals all day from the potent VE6 crowd - VE6WZ, VE6WQ, VE6BBP. And K0RF, like a beacon at all times. As I've said these are just a few calls picked out from all the stations heard over the weekend. I worked 55 of you, so not bad considering I was only on from early morning and I did not burn the any end of the candle in the middle of the night. This weekend is pretty much on par with the way the band was in 2011. That's the year that I made it to 49 states worked, only missing MS. This Sunday morning I heard N4OGW in MS working mainly NA stations before he suddenly disappeared, ouch..! :-) Let's hope these lovely band conditions continue well past The Stew and the CQ 160M CW ! 73 Peter SM2CEW At 02:35 2019-12-09, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote: 11 or so years ago, I worked UA3AGW at 1500Z during the ARRL contest using only 100 watts then. That was of course at a sunspot minimum. We are now at the next SS minimum and this morning in the 1300Z hour, I again worked UA3AGW who called me during the contest. I also worked RK4FF, UD4F, RM4F, RA4LW, and RW3PZ plus LY7M and UW2M. I would like to thank all the callers for sticking with me till I got your call, although some were armchair copy. I was using 1,500 watts today. I hope to see this opening again in the upcoming Stew Perry where it will worth a lot more than 5 points. Rick N6RK _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Morning (W6 time) opening to European Russian today at ~1300Z during ARRL contest
Hi The north and east of Ukraine really worked in the evening W6 / W7 and VE6 + KH6 + KL7. Really did it - UW2M, UR5AS, UX1UA. UW5ZO succeeded in QSO with KL7SB. There are no others who from Ukraine could hear WC in this ARRL 160 ! --- It was much worse in my south. I have 69 qso and only at night or in the morning. More than 40 stations from the USA did not hear me - K5NA, W9RE, K3UA, K9CT,N4OGW, W2FU ,NR1DX... and further, further... But there were very good QSOs 3-4 zone - K7RL, VE6WZ, N0NI, KV0Q,N0FW, NA8V, N8OO, WB9Z, K9NW, AG4W, K4WI, W5MX, K4RO. Thanks Nick, UY0ZG http://www.topband.in.ua Richard (Rick) Karlquist писал 2019-12-09 04:35: 11 or so years ago, I worked UA3AGW at 1500Z during the ARRL contest using only 100 watts then. That was of course at a sunspot minimum. We are now at the next SS minimum and this morning in the 1300Z hour, I again worked UA3AGW who called me during the contest. I also worked RK4FF, UD4F, RM4F, RA4LW, and RW3PZ plus LY7M and UW2M. I would like to thank all the callers for sticking with me till I got your call, although some were armchair copy. I was using 1,500 watts today. I hope to see this opening again in the upcoming Stew Perry where it will worth a lot more than 5 points. Rick N6RK _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
