Hey Sam, It was the poorest first night that I can remember going back 20 years to the first part of the '90's.
For a LOOOONG timethe only station we heard and worked out here in southwest NM was one TX superstation. And that is with HP and lots of radiating metal. This is the NI5T multi-op. It too us nearly 5 hours to get to 100 Q's. Only 330 or so for the entire night when normally the count in around 600 for the first night. Best DX was Al, K7CA in Chile and RC0F on Sakalin (sp) peninsula in eastern Russia. I like others am looking for the band to flip-flop tonight and give us a reasonably good shot. 73, and get on for a while after the 10 PM news. Milt, N5IA, one of the ops at NI5T -----Original Message----- From: Sam Morgan Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 1:03 PM To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: Propagation last evening I started about dark_30 here in West Texas all I could hear was 4 other TX stations calling CQ First I tried them with 5w, I wanted to work the contest QRP no responses so I went up to 100w, still nothing so I watched some TV until about 10pm lots of (stateside) stations all over the band by now again no responses to my attempts to answer their CQ's, again with 100w. all the stations I heard were in states I had worked b4 when running QRP in the previous CW contests conclusion reached I will not be wasting my time in any 160m SSB contests either you can't be heard unless you run a kw or ssb ops aren't listening for anything down in the weeds that isn't received on a beverage pointed away from the US or doesn't have an exotic call sign tisk tisk, their loss, but not to worry its the 1st weekend of the NASCAR season c all you cw ops again for the mid year Stew Perry -- GB & 73 K5OAI Sam Morgan On 2/25/2012 1:07 PM, chacuff wrote: > Anyone care to comment on last evenings propagation for the CQ SSB > contest? > >> From the deep south there just was no DX going on. Spots were very slim >> as > well... > > I'd be curious what others experienced... > > Cecil > K5DL _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2114/4831 - Release Date: 02/25/12 _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK