That’s what the Delete key is for... Cecil K5DL
Sent using recycled electrons. > On Sep 13, 2018, at 6:28 PM, Bryon Paul Veal NØAH <bryonv...@msn.com> wrote: > > What do I have to say to get booted off this thread? 10 meters rules??? > > Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> > > ________________________________ > From: Topband <topband-boun...@contesting.com> on behalf of W7RH > <midnigh...@cox.net> > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 2:39:59 PM > To: Topband > Subject: Re: Topband: Propagation. > > The not so Boring Report. Sorry Tree. Boring is actual a suburb of the > greater Portland, Gresham area on US 26 on the way to Mt Hood and Bend > Oregon. Know it well as the area was stomping ground in my youth. I'm > now an old fart who has been in the desert for over 30 years. > > Here is my Propagation perspective from the West: > > Except for rare Greyline at sunset propagation it takes several hours > for the F1 and F2 layers to settle. This early in the season out west > and you stay up to midnight you might get lucky but usually hear > nothing. The exception is those to far south and those to far north. > > No propagation? 160m is always open somewhere. Sunrise here in the west > has seen many openings to VK and ZL with Asiatic Russia thrown in. All > summer there were good openings to South America, Central America and > occasional African. > > While the Midwest guys are enjoying getting into EU, West of the Rockies > only a few openings occur this early. Guys in the northern western tier > states and Canada with good RX capabilities can bust through the Auroral > zone and work into EU. The rest of us will have to be satisfied with > Mediterranean and North Africa. Thus far I've heard peeps from Wolf > DF2PY and Len SM7BIC. ON the other hand out of the blue 4U1GSC (Italy) > had a great signal at their sunrise two nights ago. Unfortunately I was > dealing with a line of thunderstorms on that path. > > In other comments I tend to agree with Merv and Paul on recent comments. > I get kinda of sensitive once in a while regarding regarding remote > operations because I'm in a group of a half dozen or so who primary > station is remote and solely for my use taking years to build and > optimize not to mention maintain. I don't like being lumped into the > dialup group. > > Not being an avid DX'er card carrying member I'll take my poke. The real > proof of the pudding is in competitions because your "$10,000 radio" is > not going to work UN5J on FT8 with a 50cent antenna regardless of how > much power you run. To satisfy the argument my primary station is a > lowly TS480. My wife on the other hand would like to think I didn't > spend as much as I did on land and infrastructure. LOL > > The ultimate award is competing on fair grounds with your peers and > getting nominated to Contesting Hall of Fame. This half deaf old timer > will never achieve that but still enjoys the competition in Zone 3! > > With that in mind. Put on your headphones work them whatever way you > want because in the end it just doesn't matter to anyone except oneself. > > 73, Bob > > W7RH > > > -- > W7RH DM35OS > > > It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our > humanity. > > Albert Einstein > > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband