It occured after I sent my mesage to Mike that this might be of interest
to the propagation-studying folk on the list as a whole.
I heard no DX at all, although I thought I heard a very weak signal
responding to one CQ at around 0515. No further sign.
73,
Jeff Maass (jmaass@freenet.columbus.oh.us) Amateur Radio K8ND
USPSA/IPSC # L-1192 NROI/CRO NW of Columbus Ohio
25000 Members in 2000!
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Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 09:50:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jeffrey Maass <jmaass@freenet.columbus.oh.us>
To: Mike Sloan <gu3whn@guernsey.net>
Subject: Re: TopBand: AM 4th October
On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Mike Sloan wrote:
> Came on this morning between 1830 and 1834 from 0515z to 0630z. Sunrise
> this morning was at 0615z. No North American stations heard at all.
>
> Thought I heard a weak K1 but it could easily have been a DK1......
>
> G, DJ, S51, SM, OH, I, LX F and EA6 all in evidence with EI joining in
> around 0540z.
>
> SSB section also very poor. Heard later that 80m was open to NA.
>
Mike: I was calling CQ non-stop from 0430Z through 0620 on 1831.0 for the
first hour, then on 1832.0. I was running 1500 watts to an inverted-L, was
listening with a Beverage, and have worked 15-20 Europeans since August 15.
I suspect we can conclude that the and was _dead_ last night, at least on
the EU/NA path!
I worked KH6CC at 0430Z (I'm in Ohio), and he was a true 579 over an S5
noise level here!
Go figure...
73,
Jeff Maass (jmaass@freenet.columbus.oh.us) Amateur Radio K8ND
USPSA/IPSC # L-1192 NROI/CRO NW of Columbus Ohio
25000 Members in 2000!
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