Some excitement this morning on Topband when 9M6/DJ2EH showed up. He was first spotted by JA7GYP at 1315Z, but I heard nothing. Later, at 1333Z, K7ZV began calling but apparently no answer. At 1342Z, VK6GX spotted him, but still nothing here. Then at 1356Z, W7RH, not far from me, began calling but again, apparently no answer. Finally, however, I could tell he was in there on my screen. At 1405Z, he came up out of my noise, hit 559, and at 1410Z, N9RV worked him easily while calling off freq a couple hundred Hz. He continued to CQ with W7RH, K7ZV and myself calling variously both on and off-freq, but I didn't hear him reply to any of us. Last time I heard him was about five minutes after both W7RH and K7ZV had stopped calling by about 1420Z. I don't find any info on him so don't have any idea how long he will be there, nor what he's running. I ran across him last night on two other bands but both times, he seemed to abruptly stop CQing after working a couple JAs.
Earlier this morning, I heard JH1HDT CQing with a modest 559, not as strong as he's been on recent days, and a very weak JA7 calling CQ in the weekly AWT contest. One day last week, there were over a dozen JAs CQing AWT, some as strong as 559, and HL5IVL hitting S9+10. Steve, K0XP _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
