. . . and the openings have not just been trans-polar. After getting my
antennas back in service on Monday, Tuesday morning of this week I worked
VK2WF amidst QRN. Prior to my SR he was peaking an honest S5-S6. In spite
of the QRN I decided to get brave and called CQ. I had a weak caller I
could not identify. It turned out to be Phil, VK6GX (Inv V @ 27m). Last
night I called CQ toward EU and had a 16 db RBN reading from TF4M but no EU
takers other than Rino, IK7JTF (mentioned below). I would say things are
looking up. We could certainly use some CW activity. 73. . . Dave,
W0FLS
-----Original Message-----
From: VE6WZ_Steve
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2019 1:11 PM
To: topband
Subject: Topband: Trans-polar is open!
Last night DF2PY was making it across the pole to VE6.
Wolf could not hear me so we did not make a QSO, but Dave W0FLS worked him
and he also worked Rino IK7JTF who was only running 100w.
I was very surprised to hear the band open in spit of the solar wind still
kicking up around 500 km/s or so.
Lets hope this is a proxy for the winter DX season to come :-)
Here is a link to a sound clip of DF2PY’s CQ I recorded last night. RX is
direct polar path (not skewed). Diversity RX with 9 circle, and broadside
phased Beverage pair.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TjAp-yq_0KcE-292X5zQMZFPvsEplbQn/view?usp=sharing
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TjAp-yq_0KcE-292X5zQMZFPvsEplbQn/view?usp=sharing>
73, es cu on TB !! de steve ve6wz
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