On 12/1/2018 6:07 PM, K9MA wrote:
If any of you are wondering why we in the central US seem particularly
deaf this weekend, it's because of the terrific QRN from a huge storm
system.
And also because everyone is listening on their RX antennas directed to
EU. As soon as the EU path closed, a whole new group of east coast
stations started calling be who couldn't me a half hour earlier.
It's a big part of why I consider ARRL 160 and CW 160 a bad joke from
W6. Condx were especially lousy this weekend -- in a one nite effort, I
missed GA and FL except NFL, running legal limit to full size verticals
with decent radial systems, full wavelength beverages, and even a few dB
TX directivity to the east, west, and south. I never heard EU. It's not
only that they didn't hear me -- I didn't hear them! Best DX was OA, PP,
and JA.
73, Jim K9YC
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