Topband: VP6D EU Run 10-24-2018

[W7RH]

Here is an audio file as heard from W7RH last night of the EU pileup for 
VP6D.


All I can say is wow!  More than 45 years on 160 and never heard 
anything like it in 7 land.


http://w7rh.net/audio_files/VP6DPILE.mp3 






73,

Bob W7RH

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Re: Topband: Topband Digest, Vol 190, Issue 26

[Steve Sacco NN4X]

Concur WRT VP6D on Top Band last evening!

They were putting in a very FB signal into Florida at 03:00Z, and I was 
able to work them without too much effort with 200 watts.


73,

Steve

NN4X

EL98jh




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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:05:46 +
From: John Crovelli 
To: "topband@contesting.com" 
Subject: Topband: VP6D Monday Night @ P40W
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The VP6D ops were really terrific last night.  Listened to them for two hours.  
They cleaned the table to EU.


Worked them from P40W with 100w and 55 foot tall vertical dipole.  A definite 
thrill!


RX was better on NE beverage here too as someone else mentioned ... perhaps 
because that is the direction with with least noise or perhaps my 800' beverage 
doesn't have much front to back.  They peaked as high as an honest S-9 on my 
K3S at times but averaged S-7 for long periods.  Whatever they've managed to 
put up for a TX antenna is very effective - I know they've been fighting wind 
and rain.


Love Top Band!


John W2GD a.k.a. P40W this week








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Re: Topband: VP6D

[Tom]

Hover the cursor over the checkmark in the matrix of bands/modes in the
log page, and often the operator will be identified


On Tue, 2018-10-23 at 07:26 +0200, Jean-Paul Albert via Topband wrote:

> ZL3CW, aka F2CW was, maybe,the operator. 
> congrat’s for ur QSO. 
> F6FYA
> 
> Envoyé de mon iPad
> 
> > Le 22 oct. 2018 à 19:55, David Olean  a écrit :
> > 
> > I am not an expert on DX peditions, coming late to HF and 160 meters in my 
> > life, but I could not get over the operator at VP6D this morning on 1.826.  
> > Whoever it was, he was flying and getting the call correct the first time 
> > every time.  I was amazed at how well they were doing racking up the Qs.  
> > There was plenty of QSB here in Maine with the signal going from S 0.2 to 
> > about S6  on the S meter. At minimum, they were barely copyable.  At best, 
> > they were loud. I used my Europe beverage and found that it was a tad 
> > better than my SW beverage. I am not sure what was going on there. The 
> > Europe wires is a pair of 1150 ft bevs, and the SW wire is shorter at about 
> > 800 ft. After making a contact, I experimented with diversity on the K3 and 
> > had the SW wire in my right ear and the 45 degree wire in my left ear.  
> > Copy was better with diversity, but I think I need to check my beverage 
> > terminations!! Maybe it was an arrival angle situation that favored the 
> > longer wire's pattern.  I learn something every day.
> > 
> > Dave K1WHS
> > 
> > 
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Topband: Pre Stew - radio recordings

[Peter Sundberg]

I made some recordings during the PreStew last weekend.

Conditions on Sunday morning - after sunrise(!) - were the best I've 
seen up here at 65.4N since the previous solar minimum in 2009-2011.


All recordings were made well after sunrise on 21 October 2018.

http://www.sm2cew.com/wavefiles_tb.html

73
Peter SM2CEW


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Re: Topband: VP6D

[Jean-Paul Albert via Topband]

ZL3CW, aka F2CW was, maybe,the operator. 
congrat’s for ur QSO. 
F6FYA

Envoyé de mon iPad

> Le 22 oct. 2018 à 19:55, David Olean  a écrit :
> 
> I am not an expert on DX peditions, coming late to HF and 160 meters in my 
> life, but I could not get over the operator at VP6D this morning on 1.826.  
> Whoever it was, he was flying and getting the call correct the first time 
> every time.  I was amazed at how well they were doing racking up the Qs.  
> There was plenty of QSB here in Maine with the signal going from S 0.2 to 
> about S6  on the S meter. At minimum, they were barely copyable.  At best, 
> they were loud. I used my Europe beverage and found that it was a tad better 
> than my SW beverage. I am not sure what was going on there. The Europe wires 
> is a pair of 1150 ft bevs, and the SW wire is shorter at about 800 ft. After 
> making a contact, I experimented with diversity on the K3 and had the SW wire 
> in my right ear and the 45 degree wire in my left ear.  Copy was better with 
> diversity, but I think I need to check my beverage terminations!! Maybe it 
> was an arrival angle situation that favored the longer wire's pattern.  I 
> learn something every day.
> 
> Dave K1WHS
> 
> 
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