HL5IVL was on this morning as a matter of fact, calling CQ until about 1300z on 1826 or thereabouts. He was unable to copy me, unfortunately. But SM4CAN came booming in last night and we had a good QSO.
Could be better, but the band isn't dead. -Jeff Cedar Rapids, IA >________________________________ > From: Barry N1EU <[email protected]> >To: topBand List <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 6:16 PM >Subject: Re: Topband: Topband Conditions---MEH! > >On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Eddy Swynar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The current state of affairs sure does remind me a lot of the post-Christmas >> drought on 1.8-MHz last year...only this year the Grinch came early! >> >> John (ON4UN) asserts in his newest edition of LOW-BAND DX'ING that the >> overall best season for DX on the band probably occurred in the winter of >> 2008-2009...and I'm inclined to agree with him 101%... >> > > >Sure condx are generally down. But then there's a morning like Dec >14. I never heard HL in all of 2008-2009. > >73, >Barry N1EU >_______________________________________________ >UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
