Greetings All,
From Northern Arizona 160m is open most days to the greater Pacific.
George AA7JV has been very active testing for early August Jarvis Island
N5J operations. His testing has been mostly oriented towards eastern US
in time frame but very workable at their current American Samoa location
K8R. Kudos to George for keeping band active.
Whilst conditions are not great, some good long haul DX has been active
and very workable. Of note JA5DQH, VK6LW and JA1LZR have been active at
times. Unlike Winter ops the optimum time is SR gray zone propagation
with some great peaks. I must note the left coast has a great window to
the Pacific in the pre-sunrise period as the thunderstorm QRN prevalent
dips down giving us boys out west a very good signal to noise ratio.
South America Propagation is good but most are only FT8 now
Most people have been taking advantage of the high solar numbers and
spending time on H. For the new guys on 160 this a a great opportunity
to pick up some new ones.
73
keeping band alive de W7RH
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