Phil,
Well the DX and contest season is here even if the bands don't care. We
should see more and more unusual DX come out of the woodwork as CQWW
gets closer.
Here is a link to a very short article from ARRL on the Oct. 10 changes
in PJ land.
http://www.arrl.org/news/pj-pandemonium-opening-october-10-on-an-hf-band-near-you
73, Steve KW3A
On 10/14/2010 11:42 AM, Phil Scovell wrote:
> Steve,
>
> I didn't google the call signs but I kind of figured that must be partly why
> the pile ups were so large and spread out. Heard a big pile up a few nights
> ago on 40 meter CW and a 5V7TT was pretty loud and that got a lot of
> attention, too, being on 40 meters and all.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Forst"<[log in to unmask]>
> To:<[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 6:52 AM
> Subject: Re: Band Conditions
>
>
>>
>> Phil,
>>
>> Those "common" caribiean stations you were hearing were in fact new DXCC
>> countries. While I haven't followed this very closely, this past
>> weekend the Dutch possessions in the carribien were redone into new
>> entities.
>>
>> Sunday afternoon they were all over 20 meters giving me fits as I tried
>> to work some contacts in the PA QSO party.
>>
>> 73, Steve KW3A
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/14/2010 12:27 AM, Phil Scovell wrote:
>>> For awhile, these last few nights, I was beginning to think I was going =
>>> to have to see if my G5RV had fallen down off the tower due to the =
>>> horribly weak and poor 75 meter band conditions. Then tonight, =
>>> conditions have been slightly better and I heard various guys =
>>> complaining about how poor 75 meters has been of late. I also noticed =
>>> in the last couple of days, huge CW pile ups on 20 and 30 and 40 meters.
>>> =
>>> The quote rare DX station unquote was down 1 or 2 KHz from the huge, I
>>> =
>>> mean very big, pile ups so naturally, after ringing up 312 countries =
>>> worked over the years, I figured it had to be something really worth the
>>> =
>>> trouble to work. Tuning down below the pile, I would find common old =
>>> every day Caribbean stations that had generated pile ups so big, they =
>>> had to run split frequency to get everybody off their transmit =
>>> frequency. I honestly don't think the bands have been as bad as they =
>>> sound. People just aren't on the air as much because they are thinking =
>>> the bands are dead when they tune through an individual band. At any =
>>> rate, 75 meters, for sure, has been weak the last few nights and it =
>>> isn't my antenna fortunately. Even the Texas boys on certain round =
>>> table frequencies I check and listen to have been down in the mud when =
>>> normally they run 20 and 30 over nine.
>>>
>>> Phil.
>>> K0NX
>>
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