Re: Topband: JAs on TopBand

[K9FD <merv.k9fd@gmail.com>]

JA here at sunrise were 599,  but by that time not many around,  heard 
some weak
UA4,  RA9 etc,  but not much activity,    Saw strong signal up in the 
FT-8 band and
did not bother to tune up there,  30 mins after sunrise it was still 
there so out of
curiosity I turned on FT-8 and there was A41ZZ calling cq.   we 
exchanged rerports
he peaked -0 almost 40 mins after sunrise.   The band is open,  no one 
there on
any mode it appeared.
Worked VU2 on a few days ago, he peaked at sunrise, but I could copy him 
for another
45 minutes as well.
I was here in 2008 time frame and looks like we are returning to those 
good days again
soon.
73  Merv  K9FD   Molokai Island Hawaii.


> I worked three (3) JA's here in Atlanta this morning.. It was actually 
> better after sunrise... I received a 579 from JH2FXK at 1257 Z..
> They were rolling in from the NW on the Hi-Z 8....
>
> 73,
>
> John, W4NU
>
> On 12/22/2018 11:57 AM, Mark K3MSB wrote:
> > This morning was surreal.....
> >
> > I couldn't sleep so I got up around 0900Z, had a cup of coffee, read 
> > for a
> > while, then went down to the shack.  I worked 3D2AG on 80M CW and was
> > listening to him put in a very nice signal to the east coast while I did
> > some email correspondence.  I QSY'd to 160M around 1145Z.
> >
> > I worked JH1HDT, JA7BXS, and JA0MVW between 1202Z and 1216Z. 3 JA's!!!
> > Wow!!!
> >
> > My SR is around 0723Z.  I figured what the heck, parked on 1823 and 
> > called
> > CQ DX.  This is where it gets surreal.....  I worked JH7PFD, JO1WXO,
> > JH2FXK, and JA2ZL between 1222 and 1234Z -- They called me!  I had to 
> > dig
> > to get some of them, but we made it.
> >
> > I was going to shut down and noticed BG2AUE was spotted on 80M. I 
> > went to
> > 80M.... and oh my God.... I'm hearing him.   Coffee flying,  I quickly
> > changed feedlines and turned the linear so the knobs would match my red
> > electrical tape marks.  Squirted some RF....  He was 20 KHz down from 
> > where
> > I had worked 3D2AG and the SWR was higher than I'd like..... but 
> > 3500Z are
> > forgiving so more RF was squirted.    He came back to me!  Well, I'm 
> > pretty
> > sure he did as he was weak as water,  when I worked him at 1259Z, 
> > which is
> > my SR + 35 minutes or so.  I have an email out to him and I am checking
> > LoTW periodically.... well,  more than periodically......
> >
> > I'm waiting for Rod Serling to walk around the corner...... "Here we 
> > have
> > one Mark K3MSB, an unknowing visitor to the Twilight Zone......."
> >
> > Days like this are what make all the days upon days of crappy 
> > propagation
> > worth it!   As my TopBand Elmer Glenn K3SWZ always tells me -- "you 
> > have to
> > put in the seat time and be there when "it" happens..... "
> >
> > 73 Mark K3MSB
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