Re: Topband: K5P signal strength

[Bill Breeden]

K5P was solid copy here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast last night when I 
worked them at 0627z.  Was running 500 watts from a K3 and KPA500 to an 
inverted "L" working against a single counterpoise raised about chest 
high on garden stakes.  Was listening on a Pixel RF-PRO-1B to reduce the 
static crashes from an approaching thunderstorm.


73,

Bill - NA5DX
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Re: Topband: CX/W1UE QSOs

[Bill Breeden]

Dennis,

Appreciate the upload!  Both 160 and 80 were new band entities for me.

Thanks and 73,

Bill - NA5DX

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All the CX/W1UE QSOs were loaded into LOTW this morning.  I made 387
Qs while I was there, and 178 of them are already confirmed!

If you think you made a QSO and your not uploaded, drop me a note direct
and I will research the issue.

Dennis CX/W1UE


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Re: Topband: 160M Propagation

[Bill Breeden]

Dennis,

I listened to you several evenings on 160, and given the number of stations 
calling compared to those you could hear most evenings, I thought you might be 
suffering from a high noise level on receive locally.  Your ability to hear 
better on December 11 was quite noticeable on my end too.  I was thinking if 
you had been suffering from a a noise issue, you had solved it.  Glad you 
finally had a good evening of operation.  It was a good evening for me too.  
Propagation is a subject, and an experience, that never ceases to amaze me.

Thanks and 73,

Bill - NA5DX



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I recently operated as CX/W1UE, from Uruguay.  I had difficulty hearing
stations on most nights,
but the night from 2200Z Thursday Dec 10 to 0600Z Friday Dec 11, I had
no trouble hearing
stations on either 160 or 80M.  I worked more stations in that 8 hour
time period that I did in
20 hours spread over 2 weeks.  I keep coming back to the same question-
why?

Since I have never operated from CX before, I have nothing to evaluate
the 2 weeks against.
Did that night have exceptional low band propagation?

For that one night, I had no problems hearing anyone, it seemed.  I
worked as far east as UA9
in Z18 on 80M,  and a dozen Europeans on 160M.  Stations that I never
heard before or after
that night.  I'm trying to figure out how I heard so well on that night,
but not on the other 10 nights
where I also tried to make 80/160M QSOs.  I can't explain it.

Dennis CX/W1UE now just W1UE.



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