Last night was the best I've experienced on 160. Well, okay,
I haven't been on the band in any kind of seriousness until
recently, but still...
Gosh, when I tuned the band I almost immediately came
across OH0Z! Hearing Europe on CW is very rare for me.
Jim, W7FI, keeps watch on solar activity and alerted me
to the possibility of good propagation. Good thing I
listened.
I worked 20 stations during the opening, the farthest was
in UA3... and I got him on CW! I worked eight new ones
last night.
Need more of that. Wish I had a better receive antenna. I
was told that I had a lot of callers on FT8 that my system
didn't decode.
73,
Paul, K7CW
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On Fri, 10/19/18, VE6WZ_Steve <ve6wz@shaw.ca> wrote:
Subject: Topband: 160m Activity
To: "160 reflector" <topband@contesting.com>
Date: Friday, October 19, 2018, 8:46 AM
As Tree said in his post, last night Topband
was very alive!
Last night 54 EU made it into the VE6WZ
log on TB. Just exceptional condx.
20 min before my SS at 00:24z LA1MFA
was the first in the log, and the band was jumping until I
QRT at 0:600z.
There were many "first time in my
log” calls which was nice. I guess everyone is not
on FT-8!
I am now TX on my new 2 el Parasitic
array and it seems to be preforming well. I think the
extra 4 dB gain to EU is helping.
I was RX diversity with the 1000’ EU
Beverage and 9 circle RX array. The band was dead
quiet…..I could almost "hear a pin drop”!
Lets hope condx hold for a great winter
season.
73, de steve ve6wz.
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