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No problem today at 01:00 UTC. New Zealand on 17675 and Australia on
17795 and 17715 all the usual strong signal levels.

Not for long. This time of year (at least up here) 15 and 17 MHz get very
sensitive to the space weather and often go away not long after sunset.
Friday, at 05:00 or thereabouts, there wasn't anything from the south
Pacific but RNZI at 11820 and RA's Grandstand on 9660. The 15 MHz
signals were fine on Wednesday. What a difference a couple days can make.

17795 is supposed to be toward North America and 17715 is to Asia but it
always comes in better than 17795 for me. Do other people in North
America experience that?

What time? At 00:00, 17795 has been about S3, (even with a new
antenna wire and treating my R-1000's antenna attenuator switch with
Stabilant/Tweek contact enhancer) and 17715 was (under S1) in the mud.

Mark Zenier Washington State resident