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Re: Topband: 160 Conditions

To: Tom Boucher <tom@telemetry.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Topband: 160 Conditions
From: "Joe Giacobello, K2XX" <k2xx@swva.net>
Reply-to: k2xx@swva.net
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:32:27 -0500
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  Yes, last night (~0500Z) conditions were about as good as I've heard 
them here this season.  As many have commented, conditions on 80 and 
160M have been unusually poor this season.  But 80M seemed to have 
awakened a week or so ago and 160M now seems to be following suit.

73, Joe
K2XX

On 12/28/2011 6:28 AM, Tom Boucher wrote:
> Who says top-band conditions are in the doldrums? 160 was really singing this 
> morning and signals from the mid-west and west were like I've never heard 
> them. In under an hour at 0500Z, 30 US stations and 17 states worked. Jim 
> N7JW (UT) was knocking the calibrated S meter of my K3 up to 20 over and 
> Randy W6OAR (CA) was over the 9 when we worked.
>
> The evening of 6th December was also something else with 26 JAs worked and 
> many more heard in the pile up.
>
> Let's hope these conditions continue!
>
> 73&  HNY
> Tom G3OLB
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