As a followup to my previous post about great band conditions early Monday morning, the band this morning (Tuesday) was back to its typical self if not a little worse from here in the Midwest USA. European stations peaking 25 dB above my noise floor early Monday morning were lucky to be peaking 5 dB above my noise floor this morning (which is much more the norm). I would call what we experienced Sunday night / Monday morning one of those rare special days (magic days). I sometimes notice a day each side of the magic days where propagation is a little better than normal, but this morning was not one of them here in the Midwest. What Sunday night / Monday morning shows is that you must check the band everyday or you have a great chance of missing one of those very special moments where the band is red hot.
Just FYI, Don (wd8dsb) On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 6:20 PM Don Kirk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dave and Gang, > > This morning I was on from 0600 to around 0730 UTC and the band was in > great condition into Europe from the Midwest (but lots of QSB), and at the > same time I heard KH6 really pounding in strong. I typically call > conditions like this morning as one of those special days that occurs only > a handful of times a year on 160 meters. Stations like DL5AXX and SM5EDX > were at times peaking 25 to 30 dB above my noise floor, but there were lots > of smaller stations easily workable which is an indicator of very good > conditions. > > Here is a link to a recording of DL5AXX that I made this morning: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEqLKMjG7L8 > > 73, > Don (wd8dsb) > > > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
