LF: Topband Stations and Prop

[Andy Talbot <andy.g4jnt@gmail.com>]

Perhaps too high a freq for this group, but whatever ...  Topband used to be called "LF" 

As some discussions here a few months ago suggested, propagation to VK on 160m may be good at this time of year (I'm only quoting what someone posted, dunno these propagation things myself :-)   So I've been WSPRIng the last couple of days.

The Antarctica station DP0GVN turned out to be a doddle; copied me many times at a distance of 13Mm - in fact on most transmissions for several hours.

But was delighted to see last night, that my WSPR signal made it to VK3JJ - just the once.    The only other  station from Eu that was copied being G3ZJG the day before.

These are the best Dx uniques .  There's an extraordinary gap between 8000km and  13000km.   

2018-03-17 20:00	G4JNT	1.838084	-27	0	IO90iv	20	VK7JJ	QE38lr	17369	79
2018-03-17 23:04	G4JNT	1.838083	-13	0	IO90iv	20	DP0GVN	IB59uh	13531	183
2018-03-13 23:52	G4JNT	1.838082	-27	0	IO90iv	20	VU3KAZ	MK82tu	8127	90
2018-03-14 03:42	G4JNT	1.838083	-28	0	IO90iv	20	KD6RF	EM22	7511	294
2018-03-17 05:48	G4JNT	1.838083	-23	0	IO90iv	20	K9YWO	EL96ck	7114	281
2018-03-17 03:40	G4JNT	1.838083	-28	0	IO90iv	20	N1FXP	EL86xq	7111	281
2018-03-14 05:06	G4JNT	1.838090	-29	0	IO90iv	20	W3PM	EM64or	6798	291
2018-03-14 02:28	G4JNT	1.838080	-27	0	IO90iv	20	WA0JYF	EN42eb	6545	300
2018-03-14 03:14	G4JNT	1.838083	-25	0	IO90iv	20	K9AN	EN50wc	6475	296