Hi Phil
>Patrick F6IRF said that conditions were not good. Hhhmmm! Not sure I agree -
>at least as far as the CW was concerned, as 10m was WIDE open to EU and
>occasionally to the US.
Yes you are right - 10m has been open most of the time via E's - with a few
transatlantic multi-hops E's openings (July is statisticaly the best month for
transatlantic E's). I've tried CQ'ing several times on 10, hearing the activity
in the CW segment... no way, but just because everybody was stacked between
14080 and 90, and that "everybody" was a limited number of stations.
But still think that 20m and 15 condx were below average DXwise; probably also
due to the E's; JA7IC and K9MUG for example, were far below their usual level
on 20m - and I did not log a single W on 15m...
The 20m was also almost dead when I woke-up just before sunrise, which was not
the case the weeks before.
The problem of E's, is that you have to be at the right place both ends, and
100kms is often enough to make the QSO possible or not...
Anyway fully agree with you about "There seemed to be a distinct lack of
anything promoting this contest"... and I think that it's clear that this
contest has to find another place in the calendar and do better promotion, or
it will disapear.
Patrick
PS:As you can see only 1 hop E's QSO's on 10/15 (the only exceptions being 4X -
at least 2 E-hops - and a few JA's all worked just above the noise)
Band/Mode: 15
=============
4X Israel 4X6UU
9A Croatia 9A2DI
DL Fed. Rep. of Germany DC3HB DG2OBL
DJ3IW
EA Spain EA1AKS EC1DQN
EU Belarus EU1MM
F France F8BNN
G England G4OGB G3UHU
G8VOI
GM Scotland MM3KDZ
I Italy IK0YUO IK3ASM
IK7AFM
JA Japan JA1IRH JA2KCY
JH2BTM
OE Austria OE2KWN
OH Finland OH5VG OH4LRP
OH9GIT
OK Czech Republic OK2BXW OK1FRG
PA Netherlands PA7HPH
S5 Slovenia S53S S57MYY
S57MYY
SM Sweden SM7BHM
SV Greece SX3A
UA European Russia R3/DL2GH RW4WZ
UA4FX
UR Ukraine UR5SEH
YL Latvia YL3FW YL2BR
YO Romania YO2RR
Confirmed = 0, Worked = 21, Outstanding = 0
Band/Mode: 10
=============
9A Croatia 9A2DI
DL Fed. Rep. of Germany DG2OBL
EI Ireland EI4AL
EU Belarus EU1MM
G England G8VOI G3UHU
I Italy IK7AFM
OK Czech Republic OK2BXW
UA European Russia UA6ADC UA4FX
UA2 Kaliningrad RU2FL
YL Latvia YL3FW
YO Romania YO2RR
Confirmed = 0, Worked = 11, Outstanding = 0
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