I always have a tough time with Topband but this year has been pretty
dry so far. I haven't been able to hear the VK9 or any "rare" DX from
this location. Hoping that will change. The street light in front of
the house makes a lot of QRM and so far the power company hasn't seen
fit to replace it. That'll probably help some but still, I'm not
hearing what I did on TB a couple years ago or even last year.
Haven't worked a new one on 160 in about a year now.
Yeah, it's slow.
73,
Gary KA1J
> Is this a slow year or is it just me.. have been listening on and off
> for a month at sunrise and its very few and far between signals,
> Caught VK9, E51, C21 etc, no new ones but at least some activity.
>
> Have seen some interesting conditions a couple times, there are
> some "beacons" down at 1800 and at least twice now I have seen
> these pop out of the noise and good copy, but only for at most
> 5 mins time.
> This morning they popped up again about 1520Z and were from
> 1797 up the band to maybe 1810, heard at least 15 of them. I
> think in years gone by someone stated they were Russian beacons
> but my memory does not remember the location.
> In any case its interesting to see them come out of nowhere for a
> few mins and fade away into nothing again, coorelates with the
> band being "open" an hour before sunrise ..
>
> For the Stew its worth taking a good look around, may be a path
> open for a few mins to some good mults.
> At the same time there were a few JA signals on but they were
> very weak compared to normal.
>
> I have been hanging out down on 475KHZ for a few weeks, just
> receiving so far, working on an amplifier and tuner for the antenna,
> and will be transmitting soon I hope, so far have copied east to
> PA, daily into TX, KL7, of course west coast, quite amazing what
> a couple watts does at that freq.
> 73 Merv K9FD/KH6 WH2XCR
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