On six meters here at FK77 it was hot to SA with over 200 PY, LU, CX,
ZP, and CE contacts a few days ago. Many stations were well over S-9
On 10/22/2016 9:21 AM, Art Snapper wrote:
Conditions here in Michigan on 80/160 were poor last night. The signals
were weak and band noise was high. I managed to work Mali on 40, and
Hungary on 80, but it was a battle. South America was extremely poor on 80
for some reason.
Art NK8X
On Oct 22, 2016 2:03 AM, "Donald Chester" <k4kyv@hotmail.com> wrote:
Here it is Friday night, with relatively little QRN, but only a couple of
signals are audible across the entire 160m band. 80/75m has a few more
signals than that, but it's sparsely occupied as well. Usually by this
late in the season one will hear plenty of activity in the evening,
especially on weekends. I have noticed this dearth of activity for several
weeks now; it's as if this year's radio season hasn't got off the ground
yet, despite the fact that we are almost midway through autumn and the
summer QRN has substantially subsided.
Is this a trend, and is this becoming the new normal? They keep telling
us we now have a record number of hams in the FCC data base, over 700,000.
Those hams certainly aren't on the air, at least not on 160, 80 or 40m. I
can remember not that many years ago when at this stage in the season on a
quiet weekend night one had to scout around to find a clear spot to call
CQ. So far this year, the bands have all had vast swathes of unused
frequencies, but the signals that are heard appear to be at normal
strength, so the bands apparently aren't dead.
Don k4kyv
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