Topband: FT5ZM from South Dakota
All I can say is to not give up. I have heard ZERO from FT5ZM on 160 meters up until tonight and have been there every morning and night since they got there. Tonight I heard them for 28 minutes and for about 14 minutes about S-5-6 with a K3. I would say a couple of S-units above the noise. That reading was with the pre-amp off on the K3. They have been good on 80 meters which made it so frustrating I can not hear anything on 160M. Tonight I could hear them best on my 190 foot high drooping dipole, next on my NE beverage and last on the vertical but of course the vertical had more QRN. I worked them using the vertical and listening on the NE beverage because at that time I had not figured out I could hear him the best on the high dipole. Obviously I was very excited and started calling as soon as I could copy calls. Anyway I won't go into the details of working him but just wanted to encourage people to hang in there. He has been coming in from the north according to others and tonight my NE beverage was the best beverage of the 4 I have so they were coming from the north. The difference for me appears to be the polar absorption on the path from here. Ed W0SD _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Re: Topband: FT5ZM from South Dakota
Congratulations, sounds like another case of high angle N-S propagation Carl KM1H - Original Message - From: Ed Gray W0SD w...@triotel.net To: topband@contesting.com Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2014 8:00 PM Subject: Topband: FT5ZM from South Dakota All I can say is to not give up. I have heard ZERO from FT5ZM on 160 meters up until tonight and have been there every morning and night since they got there. Tonight I heard them for 28 minutes and for about 14 minutes about S-5-6 with a K3. I would say a couple of S-units above the noise. That reading was with the pre-amp off on the K3. They have been good on 80 meters which made it so frustrating I can not hear anything on 160M. Tonight I could hear them best on my 190 foot high drooping dipole, next on my NE beverage and last on the vertical but of course the vertical had more QRN. I worked them using the vertical and listening on the NE beverage because at that time I had not figured out I could hear him the best on the high dipole. Obviously I was very excited and started calling as soon as I could copy calls. Anyway I won't go into the details of working him but just wanted to encourage people to hang in there. He has been coming in from the north according to others and tonight my NE beverage was the best beverage of the 4 I have so they were coming from the north. The difference for me appears to be the polar absorption on the path from here. Ed W0SD _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4259 / Virus Database: 3684/7058 - Release Date: 02/03/14 _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Re: Topband: FT5ZM from South Dakota
I had a similar experience to Ed, W0SD. Having had absolutely zero copy on FT5ZM on 160 prior to today on my half-sloper, I had given up hope of hearing them on 160, let alone actually work them. Then, to my surprise, this morning they were perfect copy here in Western Washington for almost 2 hours. They were in the log at 1454z, and actually peaked at an honest s-9 about 15 minutes later. You just never know what the propagation gods will bring you on Top Band. 73, Jim W1YY -Original Message- From: Carl Sent: Tuesday, February 4, 2014 8:13 AM To: Ed Gray W0SD ; topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: FT5ZM from South Dakota Congratulations, sounds like another case of high angle N-S propagation Carl KM1H - Original Message - From: Ed Gray W0SD w...@triotel.net To: topband@contesting.com Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2014 8:00 PM Subject: Topband: FT5ZM from South Dakota All I can say is to not give up. I have heard ZERO from FT5ZM on 160 meters up until tonight and have been there every morning and night since they got there. Tonight I heard them for 28 minutes and for about 14 minutes about S-5-6 with a K3. I would say a couple of S-units above the noise. That reading was with the pre-amp off on the K3. They have been good on 80 meters which made it so frustrating I can not hear anything on 160M. Tonight I could hear them best on my 190 foot high drooping dipole, next on my NE beverage and last on the vertical but of course the vertical had more QRN. I worked them using the vertical and listening on the NE beverage because at that time I had not figured out I could hear him the best on the high dipole. Obviously I was very excited and started calling as soon as I could copy calls. Anyway I won't go into the details of working him but just wanted to encourage people to hang in there. He has been coming in from the north according to others and tonight my NE beverage was the best beverage of the 4 I have so they were coming from the north. The difference for me appears to be the polar absorption on the path from here. Ed W0SD _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4259 / Virus Database: 3684/7058 - Release Date: 02/03/14 _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
