I hope tonights Pre-Stew provides some good participation.
I am experimenting with a receiving BOG and so far havent heard very
much on 160.
I cant tell if the BOG is not doing very well or just lack of sigs. I
know the condx arent
optimum yet which is most of the problem (I hope) Hopefully tonight
will tell the tale.................
Bob
K6UJ
On 10/22/16 5:09 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
Some of us are looking at the contest calendar for next 7 consecutive
weekends (CQWWSSB; ARRLSSCW; WAERTTY; ARRLSSSSB; CQWWCW; ARRL160M; ARRL10M)
and spending some quality time with our families in advance! I will be on
full-bore for the Pre-Stew but that's only one night so no big deal.
I haven't been at home during the day, but conditions seem to have been
surprisingly good on the high bands, and locals that are home during the
day are reporting working exotic locations all around the world on 12M.
I thought 40M and 80M were really sucky in WAG last weekend - weak signals
and flutter on everything from Germany yet all the southern Europeans were
pounding in loud and clear. That same weekend 20M was dang good.
I did have a few nights of spectacularly good 160M conditions to EU in
September. Sept 15 I worked a bunch of loud Europeans at my local midnight
and Sept 16 was superb to Scandinavia at my sunset.
Tim N3QE
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 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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