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> From: owner-topband@contesting.com
> To: Robert g. Flory <RobnPam@compuserve.com>; topband
<topband@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: TopBand: Season
To: <topband@contesting.com>
> Date: Tuesday, April 01, 1997 5:06 AM
>
> Ragnar Otterstad
> email : otterstad@mec.dk
>
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> > From: Robert g. Flory <RobnPam@compuserve.com>
> > To: topband <topband@contesting.com>
> > Subject: TopBand: Season
To: <topband@contesting.com>
> > Date: 22. marts 1997 16:48
> >
> > Dear Topbanders,
> >
> > The season never ends. All those Southern Hemisphere stations(ZS8,
> > VK0,etc.) we worked this winter were in their summer. There is good
> stuff
> > to work all year long, but the mix changes a bit, and there is less
> > nighttime for us Northerners.
> >
> > Rob K2WI
>
> It depends on where you are !
>
> I have just spent a week on Svalbard using my Norwegian call JW5HE
> and 160 was DEAD ! Too much daylight by now .
> Even 80 was open just my first day there. The length of daylight
increases
> dramatically day by day at this time of the year.
>
FROM: Mike Michon michon@eatel.net
>From a more practical standpoint. I am going to Grand Isle NA168 with a
group of hams on April 11, 12, 13 to work Grand Isle for IOTA folks. There
will be 2-3 complete stations. I was going to bring the helium vertical
and assorted paraphenalia to get on 160. It is a considerable amount of
work. Think it is worth the effort on those dates, or am I just going to
hear the s9 + 20 crashes and a dead band.
I know noone has a crystal ball, but I have only been listening about 2
years and never really paid to much attention to when condx get poor in
early spring. Band has been dead last couple of days here.
Thanks in advance,
Mike MIchon
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