I just made pass thru 20 meters, and made a few notes of signal strengths. Obviously not scientific! Rig ICOM 756 PRO3, AGC set slow. No preamp on, 2.4 filter Ant Cushcraft A3 tribander at 25' 1330 Z
Almost every one of the stations you mentioned are big guns with lots of power and great antenna systems. They are, in no way, indicative of band conditions. The little pistols, like you and me, are
Condx were miserable. This is the first contest I can remember where I just S&P'd and never called CQ. 10 was useless. 15 was almost useless - big guns were workable, little guns weren't there. 20 wa
Well, Barry, you beat me because I didn't even S&P. This is one CQWW in which I did not participate. I've missed a few others in the last bunch of years because I was not able to operate but this yea
This contest was one blast here in Saskatchewan on 160m. Never in my life have I seen 160m emulate 20m especially the first day ... DX everywhere and I wasn't competing in this contest. Doug "Those I
I agree. I spent a few hours operating from another ham's station in a multi-single effort using our club call K9CU. Conditions were about as bad as I ever heard them. 73, Zack W9SZ _________________
I dunno. I recall at least one year on the mid 90's, that I NEVER even heard EU on 20... 73- Chuck In a message dated 10/26/2008 9:53:47 P.M. Central Daylight Time, w9sz@prairienet.org writes: Condit
160 was weird here in the black hole of mid Michigan... I could copy the DX calling - they could not hear me... I threw in the towel at 11pm Saturday night... denny / k8do _________________________
I heard you calling. I believe the local EU QRM was unbelievably strong. If the EU station did not have directional receiving antennas, it would be difficult for them to hear NA. A lot of east coast
I don't think this one is much different than the last couple of sunspot minimums. I can remember long periods of "dead conditions" on 10 and 15 being "unpleasant". We had our normal over the pole ac
I'm somewhat surprised at the comments about poor conditions during CQWW/SSB. On the higher bands, sure, but what can one expect. But I thought 40M was extremely good. Europe pounded in of course, bu
From the east coast with wire antennas, I was impressed with working Alaska, Hawaii, and Japan on voice. Must be much more common for other folks. There were close to 100 J stations on the cluster Sa
I think some of those loud EU stations need to work on their receive antennas. I was DXing on 40 meters where I run 600 watts to a decent wire antenna. I lost count of all the 20db + EU stations who
Move about 16 degrees farther North and then see what 40 meters sounds like :) I thought the bands sounded horrible. The fishing last weekend, however, was excellent. Sounds like you worked a bunch o
Just because that you can hear them, doesn't mean they were listening to the NorthWest for USA. Asia is still very open to the East of Europe when the path to the USA begins to open, and they'll be g
Hi Guys It might be a case of location, location, location. With no sunspots the HF bands are down but this years CQWW was quite exciting over here. I just cherry pick admittedly and don't call CQ so