Re: Topband: Band Open - But No Sunrise Peak

I started a thread about this very subject back in July at: ham.stackexchange.com/questions/8940/what-is-the-cause-of-this-unusually-long-period-of-terrible-hf-band-conditions Let us know your opinions. Several (except one) have posted references there that this solar minimum is not *any* lower

Re: Topband: Band Open - But No Sunrise Peak

Thanks for the clarification Dave. When did you last see consistent SR peaks at your location? I suspect that http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression shows the source of our difficulties. The highest level of geomagnetic activity in the present cycle started in late

Topband: Sunrise openning to Europe vs. west coast propagation

Talking about poor propagation, FWIW I have been concentrating on 40 and 80 meters SSB for quite sometime now. Staying up till 0:800 or 09:00 Zulu on 80 meters listening to K2RR and others work the two regular groups around 3.799 KHz and 3.795 KHz or so. The southern California guys also do

Re: Topband: My beverage only hears static?

Yup. I get emails all the time from people doing just that (I wish they would ask their Beverage antenna questions here! :-) Think of a rotatable 20m beam, on a tower and with a rotor. *You have to point that towards the DX. And the same is true of a Beverage*, phased vertical arrays, K9AY loop,

Re: Topband: My beverage only hears static?

Hi Mike and the group, Oh, the reason the antenna is going to the north is that it's the most convinenant direction to run my first beverage. I also tried some RG-11 (also scrap from some CATV company I think) as a BOG. It's about 170 feet (that's what I had) and I used it to just check and

Re: Topband: Band Open - But No Sunrise Peak

I worked 10 new ones, mostly in the in the Carribbean, in Nov/Dec and got all excited about the coming season. To date, in spite of following all the cluster spots, I have heard NO European stations since 2009! No RX antennas up yet, but plans underway. VE7XF _ Topband

Re: Topband: Band Open - But No Sunrise Peak

When I refer to a SR peak in my earlier post, I'm referring to an increase in actual signal levels (with corresponding increase in S/N). 73. . . Dave, W0FLS -Original Message- From: Nick Hall-Patch Sent: Friday, January 12, 2018 11:23 AM To: Petr Ourednik ; topband@contesting.com

Re: Topband: My beverage only hears static?

Hi Terry, Is there a reason why you're pointing north? That's the wrong direction for Aruba, especially with the very narrow beamwidth it has on 20m! :-) On my Beverage antenna page at www.w0btu.com/Beverage_antennas.html near the bottom, is an explanation of where we should point our Beverages.

Topband: My beverage only hears static?

Hi folks, I put up my first beverage recently. It's about 550-600 feet of 17 gauge electric fence wire running to the north about 6-7 feet high. Not terminated right now but using a beverage transformer I purchased on qth.com and have not put on the termination yet. Using a 5' galvanized

Re: Topband: Band Open - But No Sunrise Peak

Although my first ever top-band QSO was in 1959 and was a DX station (VE7) it's only been in the last year or so that I've been semi-seriously working the band.  The impetus being a 9th band DXCC.  At the moment, I have 82 entities worked, 52 of them in the last 12 months.  I'm clearly not an

Re: Topband: Band Open - But No Sunrise Peak

W3TA Tom search,Log antenna on ground.Simple and only 15 ft on a side.It just might work for you Jim W3TO > On January 12, 2018 at 12:51 PM Thomas Hoyer wrote: > > > I'm using a Battle Creek Special. I had plans to make some form of compact RX > antenna - no room for long

Re: Topband: Band Open - But No Sunrise Peak

I'm using a Battle Creek Special. I had plans to make some form of compact RX antenna - no room for long wire antennas here - this fall, but other things got in the way Tom W3TA -Original Message- From: Tim Duffy To: 'Thomas Hoyer' ;

Re: Topband: (no subject)

2018-01-12 16:41 GMT+01:00 Hans Hjelmström : > Hallo Calle > > They are all on computer to computer FT8 mode ..Signals not being heard by > operator. > Ham radio is ,,,no more only computer doing the job,and all can > do something else,while computer get log filled. >

Topband: (no subject)

Agree Hasse! I have not seen many real dx-ers spotted on FT-8 though. I think they´re just watching their computers. This morning, the only station I heard was VE6WZ who called cq. He was heard for 2 hours peaking 599 so there is nothing wrong with the condx! Gott Nytt År! Calle -SM6CPY

Re: Topband: Band Open - But No Sunrise Peak

Wasn't some of the apparent peaking of signals at sunrise due to improved signal to noise levels as noise levels drop at sunrise? 20 years ago for many of us, noise levels did actually drop at sunrise. For many DXers now, (man-made) noise levels stay the same after sunrise, so, no apparent

Re: Topband: Band Open - But No Sunrise Peak

I also noticed the lack of SR peaks. On those mornings the peak seemed to be about an hour before SR. 73, Glenn KD0Q On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 9:36 AM, wrote: > There have been many mornings (in fact, most mornings) here in the Midwest > where there has been little or

Re: Topband: (no subject)

Hallo Calle They are all on computer to computer FT8 mode ..Signals not being heard by operator. Ham radio is ,,,no more only computer doing the job,and all can do something else,while computer get log filled. Sorry but same indications as on 50 mc last summer. Have fun Calle and hope

Re: Topband: Band Open - But No Sunrise Peak

There have been many mornings (in fact, most mornings) here in the Midwest where there has been little or no sunrise peak. If there is one at all, it is weak. This seems to be consistent with the current pattern of overall poor conditions. During periods of better conditions it seems we see

Topband: (no subject)

If everyone is checking rbn and dx spots and not calling cq, there is no activity. 73 Carl SM6CPY _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband

Re: Topband: Band Open - But No Sunrise Peak

Hi all, the original question was about the signals level peak during the SR/SS phenomenon time... did someone noticed the same "No Sunrise peak" behavior please? 73 - Petr, OK1RP On Fri, Jan 12, 2018, at 3:40 PM, Ken Boasi wrote: > High noise levels must be driving people off the band.

Re: Topband: Band Open - But No Sunrise Peak

High noise levels must be driving people off the band. Conditions have been generally good in the last week, but activity has been light. Have heard several UA9 stations on both 80/160 and worked a few on 80. Europe has also been in very good on both bands. I heard you working the US last

Re: Topband: Band Open - But No Sunrise Peak

Hello Tom: I am curious what your topband RX antenna is? 73 Tim K3LR -Original Message- From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Hoyer Sent: Friday, January 12, 2018 7:35 AM To: ro...@wessexproductions.co.uk; topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband:

Re: Topband: Band Open - But No Sunrise Peak

Some EU stations were S7 in Miami last night, Unfortunately, noise on my TX antenna was also S7. George AA7JV On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 07:34:58 -0500 Thomas Hoyer wrote: I must be in a black hole as I have listened every night this week and heard no EU. Probably doesn't

Re: Topband: Band Open - But No Sunrise Peak

Hi Tom and Roger, I decided to add my 2c as I noticed the same behavior with no GL peak for last weeks over here... I remember the great peaks during the Grey line phenomenon condx window years ago but not now. I tried to observing the condx during the GL window for last few weeks on TB

Re: Topband: Band Open - But No Sunrise Peak

I must be in a black hole as I have listened every night this week and heard no EU. Probably doesn't help I have an S7 to S9 noise level though Tom W3TA -Original Message- From: Roger Kennedy To: topband

Topband: Band Open - But No Sunrise Peak

The band has been open for DX from Europe almost every night this week . . . so let's hear some more activity from you North American guys! (I'm usually on from around 23.30 Z) However . . . I'm still amazed that there seems to be no peak in signals around our Sunrise (in the old days, when