[FARC] Propagation for ARRL DX CW

[K3SKE Dan Szymanski]

Here is a propagation posting from a local, K3ZO.
So much for the naysayers...

Dan K3SKE


----- Original Message ----- 
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 13:59
Subject: [PVRC] Propagation for ARRL DX CW


>I made a substantial effort in the PACC Contest this weekend.  I guess
> everyone else was in the RTTY Contest as I had virtually no
> competition from within the USA.  The usual suspects for this type of
> contest (AA3B, K3WW, N4AF/NY4A) were not heard in the PACC.
> 
> This gave me the opportunity to observe conditions to Europe which may
> be useful for predicting the coming weekend's conditions.
> 
> 10 and 15 meters:  No PACC activity heard.  I made only a couple of
> passes across 15 meters.  Some RTTY activity heard from the South,
> that's all.
> 
> 20 meters:  Opened to Europe about 1200 UTC, wide open from 1230
> onward to at least 1900.
> 
> 40 meters:  Opened as early as 1900, wide open by 2200.  There was NO
> mid-evening "dropout" to Europe at all.  Loud signals from Dutch
> stations continued all through the evening hours.  There was no
> particular European sunrise peak.  From about 0600 signals began to
> decrease and by 0800 it was difficult to penetrate the European QRM
> curtain to work what few stations I could hear that I still needed.
> 
> 80 meters:  Opened as early as 2100, conditions to Netherlands were
> quite good up until 0700 or so.
> 
> 160 meters:  I was not here at our sunset, but from about 2300 onwards
> conditions to Europe were OK.  By 0300 they were very good.  Some of
> the European signals calling K5D were pretty hard to believe how
> strong they were.  Band dropped out to Holland by 0700.
> 
> For observations about conditions to the rest of the world we will
> need input from those who worked the RTTY contest.
> 
> 73, Fred, K3ZO
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