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Re: Topband: Topband Digest, Vol 158, Issue 20

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Subject: Re: Topband: Topband Digest, Vol 158, Issue 20
From: Bob Harmon <k6uj@pacbell.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:57:09 -0800
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Dave, 
Thanks for sharing about the grayline stuff. Very interesting 

Bob
K6UJ

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> On Feb 24, 2016, at 10:47 AM, Dave Olean <k1whs@metrocast.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello Les,
> I worked A35T on Tuesday morning after VY2ZM, then K8PO, then K1CP.  I live 
> in Maine, as do K8PO, K1UO, and K1CP, who are all in a line northeast of me. 
> K1UO was listening and heard them FB and did not call, but the peak was 
> rolling across the state so that when they were working A35T, I did not hear 
> the DX. Only when it faded for K1UO, did A35T pop out of the noise here and 
> was Q5 for about 10 or 15 minutes. They faded three minutes after my sunrise. 
>  I know that K4SV and NO3M worked them that morning also. NO3M said the 
> Sunrise bump was slight at 339 for just a couple minutes.
>   This morning (Wednesday) I listened and heard A35T for about 4 minutes just 
> before my sunrise at maybe 339. That was it! K1UO heard them as well. Many 
> others in the Northeast got skunked, hearing nothing. Nobody called. I doubt 
> that I could have worked them this morning. Copy was up and down. It would 
> have been a lucky contact for sure.
>   I did note a second peak on Tuesday, about an hour before my sunrise. A35T 
> peaked up out of the noise around the 10:15 UT time frame for about 30 
> minutes, with weak copy, but I did get the full call sign along with many CQs 
> and "UP" "UP", so I know it was definitely them. They were too weak for me to 
> call with confidence that I would hear what they would send back! They faded 
> down about 10:40 UT and re appeared at about 11:20 UT when they were Q5.
>   Good Luck to all!
> 
> Dave K1WHS
> 
>> Message: 11
>> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:27:05 -0500
>> From: Les Kalmus <w2lk@bk-lk.com>
>> To: topband@contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: Topband: A35T QRG change
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>> I couldn't hear a peep yesterday from about 1015Z and today from about
>> 1045Z until our sunrise at 1140Z.
>> I did hear VY2ZM and K8PO and another K1 in MA work them yesterday.
>> Today, not one call to them.
>> 
>> 73, Les W2LK
> 
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