Hi Dave
Well for the 50 years that I've been DX-ing on Top Band, Saturday night
(Sunday morning over here) has always been the main time to come on the band
to work DX.
However . . . there are a lot of people who are busy with their families
over the weekend . . . so they just come on looking for DX at random times
during the week.
All I have tried to do is focus activity onto ONE Weekday night . . .
Wednesday seemed best, as it's in the middle of the week.
In terms of people going to work the next day . . . well to work EU
stations, the band is open from your Sunset, so it's not like you have to
stay up late. (it's us Europeans that have to stay up late or get up early
to work across the pond !)
By the way, I meant to apologise in my previous post . . . I heard several
weak stations calling me last night . . . but heavy rain was giving me a
high noise level from the 400kV Power lines a couple of miles away.
73 Roger G3YRO
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Roger
I am curious, why Wednesday night ( when many have to get up and go to work
the next morning?) instead of Friday or Saturday?
Was on.. on and off the only station on CW early in the evening was
OX/OZ1AHJ.. and then a "G????" a bit later but was who ever it was in and
out of the QSB couldn't pull it out. It is still early here in the season.
We are about as far south as you can get in the USA (FL) so we don't get the
propagation like the fellows up in New England do.
JA's were in strong this morning at sunrise
We are an equal opportunity operator and there were a couple of Russians on
FT8 not much else heard here on that mode either
Dave
NR1DX
On 10/15/2020 7:05 AM, Roger Kennedy wrote:
> Great to work so many NA stations last night . . . and good to hear so
> many other EU stations on the band.
>
> Conditions were pretty good too . . . always nice to receive some S9
> reports !
>
> Look forward to working many of you on Saturday in The Stew Perry Contest.
>
> 73 Roger G3YRO
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