[CW] Absorption?

[Ken, KA0W]

Joe,

During the past few months I haven't been listening on 40m during prime EU time, my sundown local time. 

Later in the evening on my K1 bedside rig there has been evenings where there are excellent signals from across the pond on 40m, not much in the past couple of weeks however. 

Tonite at about 0000z K4EWG in GA was near 50dB over on 7014 running a homebrew KW rig and a Vee Beam chatting with PY4MVR. Gave me some hope, but that needs to occur more than during enhanced sundown times. Nothing more exciting than a band full of whopping CW signals running at healthy speeds. 

Hope to catch you on the band!

Ken, KA0W


        


--- On Fri, 4/25/08, Werner 'Joe' Jochem DK7VW <joe at dk7vw.de> wrote:

> From: Werner 'Joe' Jochem DK7VW <joe at dk7vw.de>
> Subject: Re: [CW] Absorption?
> To: cw at ka0w.com, "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Friday, April 25, 2008, 7:57 PM
> Ken, KA0W wrote:
> 
> > Anyone else experiencing the overall lousy 40m
> conditions the past
> > few days (weeks)?
> > 
> > There are very few signals moving the s-meter over S9
> during the day
> > and afternoons. A few weeks aqo 40m was filled with S9
> and plus
> > signals at my QTH, not just from QRO monster stations.
> 
> My QRO monster station is an Omni 6+ plus 700W amp into a
> R7 vertical.
> 
> This is my logbook excerpt of last week (only 40 mtrs, CW -
> what else?):
> 
> ADIF-Export generated with ARcomm HAM Office (4 Rel.2.1b) 
> http://www.hamoffice.de
> <EOH>
> <QSO_DATE:8>20080422 <CALL:4>AK4Z
> <TIME_ON:4>0108 <EOR>
> <QSO_DATE:8>20080424 <CALL:8>FJ/DJ2VO
> <TIME_ON:4>0021 <EOR>
> <QSO_DATE:8>20080422 <CALL:6>EX8MLE
> <TIME_ON:4>0050 <EOR>
> <QSO_DATE:8>20080421 <CALL:5>F5MTO
> <TIME_ON:4>0736 <EOR>
> <QSO_DATE:8>20080422 <CALL:5>K4LTA
> <TIME_ON:4>2352 <EOR>
> <QSO_DATE:8>20080421 <CALL:5>LZ2HK
> <TIME_ON:4>0732 <EOR>
> <QSO_DATE:8>20080422 <CALL:5>W9CPV
> <TIME_ON:4>0057 <EOR>
> <QSO_DATE:8>20080422 <CALL:4>ZV5R
> <TIME_ON:4>2340 <EOR>
> 
> Not too bad for such 'lousy' conditions, isn't
> it?
> 
> Be aware we are approaching summer propagation conditions
> with strong 
> attenuation of signals in the daylight period.
> 
> 73 Joe
> 
> -- 
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