Topband: Wednesday night activity report

[Mark Lunday]

Listened from 0100 UTC until 0230 UTC.  Called CQ several times during the 
period.  Even with the amp, no spots from EU.  I was hoping that conditions had 
calmed after the weekend.  No such luck.

Mark Lunday, WD4ELG
Greensboro, NC  FM06be
wd4...@arrl.net
http://wd4elg.blogspot.com
SKCC #16439  FISTS #17972  QRP ARCI #16497

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Topband: ICE Model 135B Preamp

[jim.thom jim.t...@telus.net]

Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2023 06:12:07 -0600
From: Rob Atkinson 
To: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Topband: ICE Model 135B Preamp

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Re: Topband: George in KH8 Land

[GEORGE WALLNER]

Bob,
I hope conditions will improve. Apart from the weekend, which was very poor, 
the last two nights I had strong noise (atmospherics). Even if the noise 
continues, stronger signals will help.



We will stay two more nights, trying to capture the improved conditions on 
the low bands.


After American Samoa we will be heading to Hawaii. We have a couple of 
applications in for landing permits for early next year, but, it is the 
government and they take their time and tell you nothing...


GL and 73,
George,
AA7JV

On Wed, 08 Nov 2023 21:30:23 + w3...@roadrunner.com wrote:

I heard you this morning between 1145 and 1200z ( in and out.) but a
big improvement over the past two nights when there was no copy. The K
was down to 2 and might be down to 1 by morning. Hope so since there
usually is a correlation between low K and good 160 DX. So, if things work out 
and the trend continues, tomorrow will be the
best and you will have saved the best for last. :) I'll be in the Ohio
window from 1130-1215z looking to find out. Will this be your last stop before 
heading home, or are more stops
still planned?

Bon voyage

Bob - W3HKK

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Topband: George in KH8 Land

[W3HKK]

I heard you this morning between 1145 and 1200z ( in and out.) but a
big improvement over the past two nights when there was no copy. The K
was down to 2 and might be down to 1 by morning. Hope so since there
usually is a correlation between low K and good 160 DX. 

So, if things work out and the trend continues, tomorrow will be the
best and you will have saved the best for last. :) I'll be in the Ohio
window from 1130-1215z looking to find out. 

Will this be your last stop before heading home, or are more stops
still planned?

Bon voyage

Bob - W3HKK

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Topband: A25R or TX7L on 1.8 or 3.5?

[Steve Harrison]

I missed A25R on 3.5 last night by a minute or so as my amp didn't warm 
up quickly enough; but I haven't seen them or TX7L spotted on 1.8 MHz, 
or TX7L on 3.5. Are they on those bands? Should be a crapshoot for TX7L, 
at least from here on the west coast, judging by how easy it was to work 
George at KH8/AA7JV last night. How can one get DXPeds to try lower 
bands when they're superbusy trying to make over 150K QSOs on the higher 
bands?


TNX,

Steve K0XP

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Topband: ICE Model 135B Preamp

[Rob Atkinson]

On those ICE preamps, check the small dipped inductors, because they
can blow open if the preamp is exposed to a high enough RF field.  If
your preamp is on a rx antenna and you are transmitting with ham QRO
nearby that's enough to do it.  IIRC powering down the preamp isn't
enough.  It has to be behind some kind of feedline relay that opens.

73
Rob
K5UJ
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Topband: KH8/AA7JV

[GEORGE WALLNER]

Tomorrow (Nov 9) will be our last day/night here. (The station will come 
down early Thur morning.)
Tomorrow night I will start at 0430 Z on 3521.0 then from 0600 on 1831.5 
until about 0730, depending on QRN. If too noisy, I will go back to 80.


Will be back on 1831.5 for NA SR at 1100, and again for my SR from 1530 
until 1700. If too much QRN than QSY to 3521.0.
It has been tough here on the low bands, We had thunderstorm noise most 
nights, then very poor conditions over the weekend, then last night a 100 
km/h storm that shook the boat and put us on standby in case the anchor 
chain broke, and tonight again TS noise.(Nov is the equivalent of late 
spring in NA.) Hopefully we got a few new ones into some logs...
Because of the noise, when you call,n please send your callsign at least 
twice.

GL and 73,
George,
AA7JV
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