Bill and all, as a newcomer you can find on my website a lot of graphs showing the season behaviour of 160 meters.
For example give a look at these pages http://www.iv3prk.it/north-america.htm and http://www.iv3prk.it/peaking-times.htm and you see that Topband season never ends: In the last 20 years I been active on 160m. almost every day and antennas are always the same, winter and summer: 4 elevated radials for transmitting and NO Beverages for receiving, so no problems for gardening and grass mowing! 73 Luis IV3PRK www.iv3prk.it ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Cromwell" <wrcromw...@gmail.com> To: <topband@contesting.com> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 1:06 PM Subject: Re: Topband: TB season > Hi, > > I sent a private email to one of the first hams to post about this. > Apparently there is a lot of interest on the list about this. I am new > to 160 meters and struggling to get my radios and antennas up to par. I > was dismayed to see that there is a "season". I surely expect > propagation to change but I expected to be more or less able to find > some QSOs most of the time. I was pleased to see hams respond favorably > about staying on the air. I do participate in some of the contests but I > am more interested in rag chewing. As I make improvements in my station > equipment I hope I'll be working more and more Top Band hams. > > 73, > > Bill KU8H > > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK