Topband: BOG antenna 160 meters.
In the period of Nov. 23 to Nov 25 had extreme QRN from storms. (May have been those in upstate New York). Listening for the Galapagos Island stations was very tough with my above ground Beverages Tried my 200 foot two wire, two direction BOG and they were good easy copy. There were not many on the band, very few calling made for easy contacts. Found in late summer that my BOG does have a weak point. Did not stand up well to my gasoline powered lawn mower, having strayed to the edge of the field too much...( ; ])) Ran new wire before the Galapagos contacts.. Photos or the actual 2 wire BOG transformers are on my WEB page. 73 Bruce-K1FZ www.qsl.net/k1fz/bogantennanotes/index.html _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Topband: Haiti on 160M this weekend?, HC2RMT/8, 9K2HN
I note a lot of Haiti activations for CQ WW. Are any known to be active on 160M? Also looking forward to V26K on 160M as it would be a new one for me on 160M. Last night HC2RMT/8 had a wonderfully loud signal on 80M and 160M but may not have been hearing too well. (Or maybe that was just them practicing in simplex.) I was hearing 9K2HN jway above ESP on 160M last night and amazingly loud (I mean, pretty much as loud as any local!) on 80M. Tim N3QE _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Re: Topband: Haiti on 160M this weekend?, HC2RMT/8, 9K2HN
During the contest try 160M on the hour starting about 0200. Many stations go there looking for Q's and mults for 10-15 minutes. And on Saturday night call CQ on topband on the hour. Besides mults they will be looking for Q's too. 73 N2TK, Tony -Original Message- From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Brown Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 1:44 PM To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: Haiti on 160M this weekend?, HC2RMT/8, 9K2HN On Wed,11/26/2014 6:52 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote: I note a lot of Haiti activations for CQ WW. Are any known to be active on 160M? My educated guess is that these contest expeditions will NOT be spending much (if any) time on 160M because the QSO rate would be MUCH slower than on the higher bands. The most they might do is try to grab a few multipliers, and they would be looking for low hanging fruit. The times to find them on 160M is before and after the contest, which runs from 00Z Saturday to 00Z Monday. (That's a Friday evening start in North America). 73, Jim K9YC _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Re: Topband: Haiti on 160M this weekend?, HC2RMT/8, 9K2HN
They today have made beverages. I hope RX will be better. Today at 10-11UTC lsn 5 or 7/8 HC2RMT/8 QSOs with JA's, but I have not heard of Gallapagos/ News - All HC2/8 logs uploaded to Clublog. For me the big question why Yuri (RM0F-HC2RMT/8) no uses split. I wrote him a message about this. (see photos here http://www.og2k.com/content/hc8 ) 73! de Eugene RA0FF http://www.qsl.net/ra0ff/ Wed, 26 Nov 2014 09:14:35 -0700 от MU 4CX250B 4cx2...@miamioh.edu: I think HC2RMT/8 and HC2ANT/8 are having serious QRN problems. They each had solid 579 signals in NM last night, but were only working one station every five minutes or so. They seem to be skilled CW ops, but were working simplex, which sometimes made copy through the pileup difficult. Jim Sent from my iPhone On Nov 26, 2014, at 7:52 AM, Tim Shoppa tsho...@gmail.com wrote: I note a lot of Haiti activations for CQ WW. Are any known to be active on 160M? Also looking forward to V26K on 160M as it would be a new one for me on 160M. Last night HC2RMT/8 had a wonderfully loud signal on 80M and 160M but may not have been hearing too well. (Or maybe that was just them practicing in simplex.) I was hearing 9K2HN jway above ESP on 160M last night and amazingly loud (I mean, pretty much as loud as any local!) on 80M. Tim N3QE _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
