Re: Topband: OT - KZ5 Help

If you know any of their names, or if someone who has a card from one of them can give you the name on the card, you can do a name search on qrz.com. Maybe by doing that you can come up with a current callsign and address. Good luck in your search. 73, Tim - N3XX - Original Message -

Re: Topband: 160M CONTEST SCORING

Heard you CQing 5 x 5 here in Oregon last night, Herb. I didn't have time to get into the test this weekend so I was just having a quick listen to see what was up. Can't fathom why you didn't get any answers. 73, Carl WS7L > -Original Message- > Gentlemen, I have been calling CQ tonight f

Topband: OT - KZ5 Help

Greetings, Please respond off list as I do not want to cause any unnecessary BW. I'm finally sorting out almost 50 years of confirmations and I am missing a QSL from KZ5. Does anyone know how to obtain a card from any of the following stations that were QRV from The Canal Zone: KZ5GV, KZ5FR,

Re: Topband: 160M CONTEST SCORING

Gentlemen, I have been calling CQ tonight for two hours and never received a single reply.This is with a 1/4 wave vertical, and Alpha 87A and 12 Beverages in every directions. Some nights on 160 the propagation is just not there. As Kenny Rodgers used to sing"you gotta know when to

Re: Topband: 160M CONTEST SCORING

I'm with you, Bill - as a Top Band QRP operator with a limited (make LIMITED) antenna, in terms of efficiency - I'd sure like to see more SP activity as that's one contest where us QRPers can sorta enjoy it all...knowing that our weak signals might, just might, piqué the curiosity of other oper

Re: Topband: Propagation last evening

On 2/25/2012 1:07 PM, chacuff wrote: > Anyone care to comment on last evenings propagation for the CQ SSB contest? > > > From the deep south there just was no DX going on. Spots were very slim as > well... > > I'd be curious what others experienced... > > Cecil > K5DL It was poor at best. never h

Re: Topband: Propagation last evening

Don, it's that 'one way thingy' that happens on 160m for as long as I have operated on this band. You cannot determine your signal strength as his QTH based on his signal strength at your QTH. Doug/VA5DX >-Original Message- >From: topband-boun...@contesting.com [mailto:topband- >It neve

Re: Topband: Propagation last evening

Well, I might agree with you Jim, if all the states and provinces weren't multipliers. And that the strategy of winners for 160 contests is to WORK ANYTHING THAT MOVES. If you hear it, work it. Doesn't matter if it's east coast or west coast or DX. Personally my limiting factor is being able to

Re: Topband: Propagation last evening

Hey Sam, It was the poorest first night that I can remember going back 20 years to the first part of the '90's. For a LNG timethe only station we heard and worked out here in southwest NM was one TX superstation. And that is with HP and lots of radiating metal. This is the NI5T multi-op.

Re: Topband: Propagation last evening

>From my landlocked 4 square in somewhat frozen and snowy Alberta, Friday was mostly what I'd call a normal evening, i.e. not very good. The bigger stations on the east coast are workable (VY2ZM and N4PN were consistently loud), Europe is a dream (and yes, we consider VO1/2 to be part of Europe

Re: Topband: Propagation last evening

* Gee, a lot of anger out there about this contest. In my opinion.running a KW or more on 160 is just required. It's the nature of the band, has been since Marconi. I'm a long time "SSB" op (56 years) and I listen so far down into the weeds my ears hurt. I also use separate rcv antennas,

Topband: 160M CONTEST SCORING

Hey you guys-while you come down hard on the east coasters for looking east instead of west in the CQWW, don't forget to slam us Canookies-we get DX points for working all you fine fellas just across the border. Talk about skewed scoring! I'd love to see a lot more activity in the only level-pl

Re: Topband: Propagation last evening

On 2/25/2012 12:03 PM, Sam Morgan wrote: > I will not be wasting my time in any 160m SSB contests > either you can't be heard unless you run a kw > or ssb ops aren't listening for anything down in the weeds > that isn't received on a beverage pointed away from the US > or doesn't have an exotic cal

Re: Topband: Propagation last evening

I started about dark_30 here in West Texas all I could hear was 4 other TX stations calling CQ First I tried them with 5w, I wanted to work the contest QRP no responses so I went up to 100w, still nothing so I watched some TV until about 10pm lots of (stateside) stations all over the band by now a

Topband: cq ssb contest last night

I been calling and calling with no luck just 2 or 3 stations from the us i work. the band was full of us stations and i could hear them ok here but they cant hear me. iam just running 100 watts into an inverted L. will be around tonight and see how it works. good luck to all. kp2bh /jimmy ___

Re: Topband: Propagation last evening

I only got on for a very short time in the mid evening (8-10pm local ). Prop must have been kinda weird. Some EU's were over S9 yet I only made a couple of QSOs. I worked W9RE who was actually weak-ish (weird, in and of itself) on the QRG of OL7M who was over S9. I made a comment to W9RE that t

Re: Topband: Propagation last evening

We've had three contests in a row where Friday night 160 was really stinky. Will we have three in a row where Saturday night was a whole new deal? At least that long line of thunderstorms off shore that stretched from GA to New Brunswick will be gone with the front. In North Carolina the band sou

Re: Topband: Propagation last evening

My first contest on 160, and really my first heavy activity session. The only DX I worked was a dozen or so Carribean, Mexico, and Canadian provinces 1,2,3,4,6 Also 43 states, no west coast though. I saw lots of DX spots, but heard almost none of it. I used YCCC dx cluster, but have no idea

Re: Topband: Propagation last evening

The only thing I heard last night was KH7Y and N4PN calling CQ...I couldn't get Paul's attention 73, Steve KH6/AA4V Sent from my iPhone On Feb 25, 2012, at 9:07 AM, "chacuff" wrote: > Anyone care to comment on last evenings propagation for the CQ SSB contest? > >> From the deep south there j

Topband: Propagation last evening

Anyone care to comment on last evenings propagation for the CQ SSB contest? >From the deep south there just was no DX going on. Spots were very slim as well... I'd be curious what others experienced... Cecil K5DL ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB -

Re: Topband: 3C6A

I started that thread without a real thought of its applicability to 3C6A. Just pointing out the facts, ma'am as Jack might say. In fact 3C6A ops seem to be doing very well sticking with a call til its accurately logged. My own experience with them on 30M is instructive. I worked them twice (in

Topband: 3C6A/3C0E

For those who haven't seen this, there is a delay until Friday, 3/2/12 until they arrive on Annobon Island. >From their website: http://www.gdgdxc.net/3c0e/ "The two operators are now in Equatorial Guinea (3C6A) and they are having problems in their journey to the i

Re: Topband: 3C6A

Really nothing you can do if someone decides to go that way. But agree with me, if I hear some callsigns making kind of mess on the bands, i.e. W4ZV, K3LR, W5UN, DF2PY, (and many more to mention some of them), I definitly DO NO TRUST they are the real ones..!! Our reputation is preceeded by resp

Re: Topband: 3C6A

Several months ago, Eddy, in more of an act of frustration than anything, I cited several hams, by call sign, on another reflector for blatant adherance to the "non-DX code of conduct." These two stations were heard in several pileups simply blasting away, never...NEVER listening, it appeared.

Re: Topband: 3C6A

On 2012-02-25, at 8:19 AM, Roger D Johnson wrote: > The problem is that there is nothing to prevent someone from using YOUR > call, making a complete ass of himself on the air and thus trashing your > reputation. > Hi Roger, Quite true. I agree. I guess that wouldn't say too much about the h

Re: Topband: 3C6A

The problem is that there is nothing to prevent someone from using YOUR call, making a complete ass of himself on the air and thus trashing your reputation. 73, Roger On 2/25/2012 8:06 AM, Eddy Swynar wrote: > Hi Guys, > > A look back through my late 1920's issues of QST magazine reveals a monthl

Re: Topband: 3C6A

On 2012-02-24, at 4:47 PM, k6xt wrote: > There's two sides to the DX Code of Conduct pictured on the site. One of them > is our side, the callers. The other is the DX side. Referring especially to > sticking with a partial call until its correct in the log, no matter the > jamming level. Often