I thought I was hearing you, but your signal is usually pretty weak here on
20, and with the extra absorption and QRM it was really not possible to copy
you.  I didn't check 10 meters, but you probably had a combination of F2
propagation to Pennsylvania and sporadic E to Texas.  Or maybe the east
coast was double-hop E sub s.  DX conditions have been very good on 20 in
the evenings, and 15 was still open to the Guam area after 11 PM last night.
But higher ionization brings more absorption on low frequencies, so this
mostly makes sense.  We will never all hear each other on the 20-meter net,
but sometimes we come closer to that goal than others.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John J. Jacques [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 12:10 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: 20-Meter Net, May 6
> 
> Hi Lloyd, that was me, that you thought you heard after WA8YUZ, I could
> hardly hear anyone from here.  It is interesting the way the lower bands
> act when 10 meters is wide open!  GRIN!  We had several Pensylvania and
> South Carolina stations check into our 10-10 net this evening wich is at
> 1800 local time, or 01:00 Z.  At the same time, we were hearing stations
> in Texas and Oklahoma.
> 
> 73:
> J.
> John Jacques
> Amateur Radio Station: KD8PC
> "Where Cat Is,  Is Civilization!"
> 
> 
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