The persistence of easily more than half a year of loud QRN in the
evenings
on 160, perhaps 3/4 of the year, has generated the *expectation* that no
one is on. The expectation of activity is what generates activity. The
band is clearly open to some degree at various times any night, even in
July.
From here, it's quite possible to work JA's and almost everywhere where
there is overlapping darkness during Summer. Even daylight paths sometimes
appear with skews.
That's why the "first WAC of the season" thing always puzzled me, because
there really is not a specific season. It's just when people get on.
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