Re: [IRCA] a tale of two conditions?

[Mike Irizarry <michael.irizarry29@xxxxxxxxx>]

>From the chicago suburbs, I worked about 100 QSOs on and off during the
contest. My condx are T top loaded 40 foot vertical TX was running between
500 and 1KW. RX antennas various: 4 square, k9ay, a couple of beverages.
For some reason I cant figure out, my reversible DHDL antenna set not
working properly. Anyway, I worked every NA station I could hear with no
problems. I worked several mexican stations, several VI stations, and
several caribean stations with no problem. I heard no european stations. I
will say, for me, those stations usually come thru later in the evening and
into the morning and this year, I was asleep by 10 :). From my half hearted
observations, there wasnt anything spectacular about condx from here in the
midwest.

Mike

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 11:23 PM Mark Connelly via IRCA <
irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> From: Mark Connelly <markwa1ion@xxxxxxx>
> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, CapeDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 05:23:22 +0000 (UTC)
> Subject: a tale of two conditions?
> I wasn't active but I'm very curious as to what everyone else noted over
> the weekend based on the reports below.
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> Mark Connelly, WA1ION
> South Yarmouth, MA
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> Exhibit A
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> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 16:03:56 +0000 (UTC)
> From: N7DF <n7df@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: TopBand List <topband@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Topband: really good conditions
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> Unbelievable signals in CQ160 this weekend..many stations 40 over on my
> FT1000 and several TX and AZ signals pegged the meter at 60 over
> PJ2T was 35 over most of the time
> lost my receiving antennas to storms in December and had to use cage only
> still have right wrist in cast so have to hunt and pounce only QLF but had
> fun
> 73 Larry
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> Exhibit B
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> From: Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>
> To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
>     <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [IRCA] TP  27 Jan Victoria version.
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> This morning might take the title for the season's worst...
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> pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at
> least briefly):
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> not by any means
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> Reasonable audio at  times during the period (much of it understandable by
> a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise):
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> the above passing through
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> not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise
> could be understood by a native speaker:
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> not in the slightest
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