There's the band, and then there's folks using the band. Both have to line up!
Important thing is that it is winter in VK :-). So more likely for VK's to be on topband than for EU's. I don't do JT-65 but below I share some of my experience with CW this summer on 160M: Just in the past week I have been able to hear intermittent EU 160M CW activity as I clean up my K9AY loop. In the Summer Stew, I worked one EU, which is kinda the best case I had hoped for. I was surprised when I went back this morning to look at the reversebeacon reports for the summer stew... for a bit I was getting spotted on 160M on several places in Europe. I notice that NO3M who was also very active in Summer Stew was getting spotted too but not at exact same times: > grep N3QE 20140622.csv | grep 160m | grep EU DR1A,DL,EU,1823.3,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,10,2014-06-22 01:40:23,21,CW GW8IZR,GW,EU,1823.3,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,6,2014-06-22 01:40:36,21,CW GW8IZR,GW,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,7,2014-06-22 01:45:19,22,CW GW8IZR,GW,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,9,2014-06-22 01:57:52,21,CW DR1A,DL,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,23,2014-06-22 02:02:35,24,CW DL1EMY,DL,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,26,2014-06-22 02:03:20,24,CW DR1A,DL,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,14,2014-06-22 02:12:56,23,CW DL1EMY,DL,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,17,2014-06-22 02:13:10,23,CW GW8IZR,GW,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,6,2014-06-22 02:16:48,24,CW GW8IZR,GW,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,7,2014-06-22 02:23:54,24,CW DR1A,DL,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,4,2014-06-22 02:25:52,24,CW GW8IZR,GW,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,7,2014-06-22 02:34:00,24,CW DL1EMY,DL,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,3,2014-06-22 02:34:17,24,CW DR1A,DL,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,8,2014-06-22 02:36:48,20,CW GW8IZR,GW,EU,1823.4,160m,N3QE,K,NA,CQ,6,2014-06-22 02:44:11,22,CW > grep NO3M 20140622.csv | grep 160m | grep EU GW8IZR,GW,EU,1819.4,160m,NO3M,K,NA,CQ,10,2014-06-22 03:33:30,29,CW EI6IZ,EI,EU,1819.4,160m,NO3M,K,NA,CQ,10,2014-06-22 03:33:43,29,CW GW8IZR,GW,EU,1819.4,160m,NO3M,K,NA,CQ,25,2014-06-22 03:45:06,29,CW EI6IZ,EI,EU,1819.4,160m,NO3M,K,NA,CQ,21,2014-06-22 03:48:16,28,CW Tim N3QE On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Dan Edward Dba East edwards < dan.n.edwa...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > greetings > > to pass the time through the summer doldrums, I've been playing with weak > signal digi-modes. Near sunrise, am having fair luck to VK, w jt-65... > VK3XQ comes through almost every day.. > > but, at Eu sunrise, my cq's go un-answered, even with kw power. Is the > band > really THAT bad to Eu, still? > > from a noisy suburban location, WSJT-x seems to help... > > 73, W5XZ, Dan > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband