Been a long winter of very very few openings to VK, nothing much to
the Far Pacific, and a smattering of JA/HL/UA0's. Europe has been
pretty consistent post sunset, esp around 0300z and again at Euro SR.
But no new countries. However there sure is a reliable group of ops
that show up many nights and most contests. The propagation has been
very telescope-like at any point in time. So if you QRT for 15 minutes
you can come back to a couple different countries each quarter hour.
Most mornings here in central Ohio have shown no DX or very weak sigs
floating in the noise.
BUT on March 5, VK3HJ, VK3IO, and VK2WF were banging in here between
559 and 579! Beautiful copy. Rumor has it that Luke's new antenna was
spotted by the Endeavor cameras! I copied Luke 20 minutes after my sun
had risen.
What a pleasant change. As we struggle to get into our Spring, the VKs
are entering their Fall, and we are benefiting.
Maybe we can get a few more trips to the Pacific Islands this year.
I worked a couple of VK6's, one of whom was joining a vacation-mode
dxpedition to one of the VK islands in a couple weeks. So maybe I will
get lucky and work a new one.
Bob
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Well DX Propagation still seems pretty average (OK, but certainly not
good)
. . .
But I came on 160m last night for an hour to see if I could work any
NA
stations in the Contest.
Was pleased that I managed 18 QSOs . . . might pop on again tonight
to see
if I can work any more.
The good thing about this contest is that the band isn't full of
Europeans .
. . so you can hear weak signals without all the strong splatter !
Roger G3YRO
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Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2021 11:16:46 -0500
From: Kenneth Grimm
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Roger,
I hasten to disagree with you. Conditions, as far as I'm concerned,
were
quite good last evening on top band. In only a brief period of time I
managed over 20 QSOs with Europeans, some with honest S9 signals.
While
the "spotlight" seemed to not be terribly important, power was. 500
and
1000 watt stations were easily S5 to S9. Hundred watt stations were a
little more difficult, but easy copy for the most part. In fact, I
seemed
to have more trouble copying some of the Carribean stations than I
did the
European ones! Stations were spread out from 1.810 to 1.900 and easy
pickings!
I hope conditions will persist and tonight will be a repeat!
73,
--
Ken - K4XL
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