I'd say the conditions seemed good from East of Mississippi to East of Mississippi. They were especially good from NC to MN and IA, go figure :>). But conditions from NC to the west coast were AWFUL. From PAC the usual 569, 579 KH6CC was R2 at best, and was only up to that elevated level for a few minutes, and disappeared.
So much for 160 contests on X class solar flare weekends? See if things improve tonight. 73, Guy. On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Shoppa, Tim <tsho...@wmata.com> wrote: > > Well, maybe they have been good at your QTH. Here, the conditions to > > Europe have been the worst in recent memory. Just fleeting peeps of > Europe > > barely working through. Only honestly R5 signals were from Portugal. > One G > > was R4, and the rest, what few of them there were, were R3. 73, Guy > (Apex, > > NC) > > I'm far from a propagation expert but my observation: 160 inside NA was > working real good in the NAQCC QRP 160M sprint and last night too. (Side > note on the NAQCC 160: I had never thought of 160 as a QRP band before but > the best ops really shone through that night.) > > HK0NA has been coming in just fine here on the east coast on 160M many > evenings the past week. A neighbor told me he got Pitcairn on 160M (I > missed them somehow) > > None of the above require polar paths. > > But last night the only euro DX I worked was southern Europe (like Guy > mentioned), and I only barely heard the peeps of the northern euro > powerhouse stations, stations that when conditions are good I could > probably receive just fine using just a few feet of wire hanging out the > back of the radio or maybe just my tooth fillings Gilligan-style. > > My guess (ready to stand corrected, and learn as a result!): Solar > activity has disrupted the 160M polar paths but not so much others. > > Tim N3QE > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK