Hello Tim I am a "Johnny Novice" on Top Band; my best was 25 EU DX contacts the night before last night. That was the first time I was able to call CQ and have EU stations answer me! Last night I worked a few EU, but was playing with my EWE antenna.
TB is indeed fun, and very challenging (at least for me!) 73 Mark K3MSB On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Tim Shoppa <[email protected]> wrote: > There was a huge NA-EU 160M opening last night and I was surprised to work > 50 Europeans on one night, outside a contest. I'm sure that 160M veterans > can tell me of working 1000 on a good night, but this was great for me. I'm > surprised there were that many Europeans awake before their dawn! Including > Russians and Ukranians too. > > It was a little different than the "Belgium-specific" opening I found a few > months ago, this one seems to have been all across Europe. There was a good > hour when the DL's, ON's, OK's were loud like regional stations on 80M and > there were a couple loud Ukranians too. > > Reversebeacon screenshot: http://www.trailing-edge.com/DEC31-opening.png > > Tim N3QE > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
