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- Subject: Re: [IRCA] 1566 Benin into Michigan
- From: Mark Connelly <markwa1ion@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 04:55:48 +0000 (UTC)
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I read the 160-m Topband list postings and have noted recent chatter about contacts between Europe and the NW US / western Canada along with the more typically reliable propagation to the East Coast and Great Lakes areas.
Most of these polar-path contacts have been from hams in Germany, Poland, and the Scandinavian countries.
Should there be great TA medium-wave going on in OR, WA, and BC?
Theoretically yes .. BUT .. the most likely stations that would propagate would be northerly ones that could skip within the "auroral doughnut hole."
Where are the big gun northern Europe stations? Other than the UK, largely gone.
We all remember the screamers of yesteryear: Norway 1314, Sweden 1179, Finland 963, Denmark 1062, Holland 747, Germany 756/1269/1422/1593, Poland 1503, Austria 1476, Switzerland 765/1566.
Gone .. the whole lot.
The Lithuanian on 1386 is about the last fire-breather in its neck of the woods.
So the hams really have the advantage in working those rare juicy transpolar openings since northern Europe is still loaded up with active stations. MW, not so much.
Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA
<<A so-so carrier here in Alberta, but like Walt mentions, pretty dead forÂTAs compared to a few days ago.
73,
Nigel PimblettDunmore, Alberta>>
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