Re: Topband: KH8 Demand on TB

Wow - I joined this group to help me with top band dxing, not to see personal insults and attacks being thrown around. I can see that every day in the news... I will be unsubscribing. W3TA On Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 05:02:54 AM EDT, uy0zg via Topband wrote: Sam What don't

Re: Topband: KH8 Demand on TB

Hi George,  I'm always looking for new ones on 160. Currently sitting at 102.  TomW3TA On Tuesday, October 31, 2023 at 04:54:22 AM EDT, GEORGE WALLNER wrote: Hello TobBanders, I am in American Samoa (KH8) and will be in the Manua Islands, AH54 (OC-77), later this week. I may have a

Re: Topband: 10/28 morning conditions

I also heard W0FLS working JA8EKM. At my location the JA was nothing but a whisper in the noise. I could tell some other stations were in there but with my noise level around S5 (quiet morning for me) I couldn't pull anything out before I had to head to work. Maybe I need to get up a little

Re: Topband: Antenna thoughts

I changed my home built Battle Creek Special over to a "tee" for 160 last fall and I feel it performs much better on 160 then the "L" of the BCS did. Due to yard restrictions the ends of my tee's slope down a bit, one more then the other. Overall height is approx 52' with the tee wires

Topband: Alaska QSO Party

Do any Alaska stations plan on operating during the QSO party? I could use AK to finish WAS on 160m Thanks, TomW3TA _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector

Re: Topband: Wednesday CW DX Activity Night

QSB cycle, which then immediately dove into the noise not to be heard again in the 30 minutes before I had to go downstairs. 8’s and 9’s appeared to be hearing him. Go figure. 73, Guy K2AV On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 10:44 AM Thomas Hoyer via Topband < topband@contesting.com> wrote: >

Re: Topband: Wednesday CW DX Activity Night

Observation from my little gun station in eastern PA is that propagation seems to have moved more to the west of me, western PA, Ohio and further. Whereas for the last two weeks or so I was hearing EU fairly well given my S5 noise level which is quite for me. Worked the KP2 and YL stations last

Re: Topband: VK3HJ in NNJ this morning

Heard you work him - congrats! Couldn't hear Luke though... TomW3TA -Original Message- From: Paul Dulaff To: 160 Sent: Wed, Sep 16, 2020 7:44 am Subject: Topband: VK3HJ in NNJ this morning Worked Luke VK3HJ here in NNJ at 1824.500 at 6:50 AM this morning.  Signal 55N both

Re: Topband: CW Activity

I don't know where those RBN's are but here in southeastern PA at my station I have only heard two EU stations both during the SP contest. I'm on every evening from about to 0200. TomW3TA -Original Message- From: Roger Kennedy To: topband Sent: Tue, Apr 7, 2020 7:30 am Subject:

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX CW Activity Night

S9 noise here last night - More then the usual S5-S7. Heard Roger in there and called a couple times but QSB and noise kept me from hearing him well enough to make a contact. Tried a couple CQ's but nothing - band seemed dead at my QTH (noisy) in eastern PA. TomW3TA PS: this is why it has taken

Re: Topband: No NA Activity

Roger,  I heard you in there but QSB and noise were pretty bad at my location last night. If I didn't know it was you I would have had a hard time making out the call TomW3TA -Original Message- From: Roger Kennedy To: topband Sent: Thu, Mar 5, 2020 7:56 am Subject:

Re: Topband: TI9A

.  Take a nap earlier in the day and stay up and wait? W0MU On 2/5/2020 10:56 AM, Thomas Hoyer via Topband wrote: > They were really good copy here in eastern PA last night. I'm happy for all > of the EU stations that made it into the log but was a bit disappointed that > they were onl

Topband: TI9A

They were really good copy here in eastern PA last night. I'm happy for all of the EU stations that made it into the log but was a bit disappointed that they were only working EU - while I was listening anyway, I just hope they are just as strong when they call for NA - maybe tonight I just

Re: Topband: 160 is alive!

Figures Only need a couple more countries for DXCC and my TB antenna is down for the next couple months due to a construction project going on in the yard. The contractor didn't want to "work around" the guy lines on the vertical - which really were in his way - so I took the vertical

Topband: ARRL DX Contest - Small Gun

Typically I deal with S7+ noise at my station and have been stuck at 90 countries for a few years now. This weekend I found the band to be a lot less noisy then usual (S3 to S5) and I was able to add three new countries. I heard two other new ones HQ and KL7, but I suppose they couldn't hear me

Re: Topband: The band works!!

Dave,  Was listening to you last night work those stations. Sadly I didn't / couldn't hear any of them - but you were nice and strong in EPA! Just out of curiosity, what is the noise level at your station? Regards, TomW3TA -Original Message- From: daraymond To: Tree ; 160 Sent: Fri,

Re: Topband: Why no NA 160m Activity?

In my case I have been listening every night the last few weeks between 2300 and 0200 and find it hard to pick out anything due to the S7 to S9 noise levels at my QTH. Not even worth calling CQ if I can't hear anything. I may experiment with a receive antenna this year but I don't live

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 <k...@k3lr.com> To: 'Thomas Hoyer' <thoy...@ve

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