Re: Topband: TN5R to start tonight on TB
Low bands better than yesterday. We hear rather well on beverages in spite of the storm crashes and many wandering noise around. I needed to repeat the calls many times. Tomorrow will try to improve the tx antenna efficiency with more radials and hooking higher the top part of the L. We'll try to stay around 1822. Thanks for the fun. 73 TN/EA7KW El 12 mar. 2018 19:22, "John Farrer" escribió: Jose 1824 occupied every day by 9M0W pile up till their SR 2240z. Please give us another frequency to monitor for TN5R. 73 John G3XHZ Sent from my iPhone > On 12 Mar 2018, at 14:32, John Farrer via Topband wrote: > > Thanks Jose. Many of us monitoring 1824 last night. I stayed up till 0300z but nothing heard. Will you be on tonight? If your signal is not picked up by rbn can you please cq at least at the beginning of each hour so that we can all monitor? > 73 John G3XHZ > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 11 Mar 2018, at 11:34, Jose Ramon wrote: >> >> We'll start tonight on top band from the beautiful Congo coast. 880 ft (270 >> m) Beverages set to NW, N and NE. An additional steerable diamond shape >> loop is attached to the rx aerials control box so any station can choose >> among 4 directions from 160 to 30m. Noise level is not bad on the 18m high >> inverted L. >> >> Hope to log you all, conditions permitting. >> >> 73 es GL >> Jose, TN/EA7KW. >> _ >> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > > _ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Topband: TN5R to start tonight on TB
We'll start tonight on top band from the beautiful Congo coast. 880 ft (270 m) Beverages set to NW, N and NE. An additional steerable diamond shape loop is attached to the rx aerials control box so any station can choose among 4 directions from 160 to 30m. Noise level is not bad on the 18m high inverted L. Hope to log you all, conditions permitting. 73 es GL Jose, TN/EA7KW. _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Re: Topband: ARRL 160
That's not going to work often during a contest. It depends on how crowded is the band you stretch or narrow your passband. When a narrow filter is set if you call 100 Hz away we won't hear you. During a dxp the scenario is quite different, you're the alone, I normally set, whenever is possible, the widest passband so I can hear anyone on the split within 2,5 KHz, the brain does the rest. Thanks for the last weekend ARRL contest QSOs. 73 Jose, EA7KW 2017-12-07 18:33 GMT+01:00 Wes Stewart : > Shh. You're giving away my secrets. > > Wes N7WS > > On 12/7/2017 10:07 AM, ma...@ka5m.net wrote: > >> I respectfully disagree with Don Kirk. My experience has been different. I >> don't how many pileups I've broken quickly - where the station I'm trying >> to >> work is operating simplex - by going split and transmitting a few Hz above >> or below "zero beat". The operator at the other end is trying to copy a >> callsign, and if everybody is "zero beat" it makes it very difficult to >> copy >> anybody. Anything you can do to make your signal "stand out" or >> differentiate it from the crowd makes it easier for the station you're >> trying to work. (Also speeding up or slowing down a few WPM sometimes >> helps.) >> >> Someone taught me this a long time ago, and it works. He's worked a lot of >> good DX in the last sixty (60) years or so. >> >> 73, >> Marsh, KA5M >> >> > _ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Topband: TB from Niger
TB and 80m aerials were installed early today in Niamey. EU/AS Beverage a bit noisy, power line on that heading. Worked HL and JA after their sr. NA bvg looks much better, about 700 ft long. Tx 1824 lsn up. For JA 1824 lsn dw 2-4. We are focused on 160 and 8 all night. There are short power outages often, pse be patient. 73 Jose, EA7KW @5U5R _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Re: Topband: EA7PP - Remote
Hi Jose Carlos. Thanks for the report and compliments. The site is indeed excellent, not being costal, 360 degrees clear shot and a good conductivity soil. EA7IYI is now at the site repairing the internet 5 GHz link, now Pepe can run the remote back! (haha). For the next ARRL DX contests we'd like to add 2 more elevated radials to the inverted L, no room for more wires. CU next weekend at the 10m contest, I'll be single op. unlimited, if the internet access works! 73 Jose, EA7KW 2014-12-07 0:08 GMT+01:00 JC : > Hi Jose > > > That was me. I was testing my new RX antennas comparing signals from > Europe during the contest . WOW you guys have the best site for 160m in > Europe, I was impressed with the signal and the reports on RBN, really > signal as local signal in US. > > Regards > Jose Carlos > N4IS > > -Original Message- > From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jose > Ramon > Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2014 5:29 PM > To: topband@contesting.com > Subject: Topband: EA7PP - Remote > > Hi all, > > I have just subscribed to this reflector- A friend of mine told me there > was something about EA7PP's operation during this w/e 160m contest. > > Someone suggested EA7PP uses a remote in the US as his signal was on the > RBN outstanding. More than being an offending remark it's a compliment. > > We spent yesterday the whole evening at EA7PP's contest station setting a > modest EWE pointing to US and built in site a receiver protecting device. > > Set up is very simple, an inverted L up to 18 metres on a fiber glass ple > and then about 21 metres horizontal to the tower (23m) . Only 2 tuned > elevated radials circling the plot as it is very small. Soil is very > conductive and it has been raining a lot during the last couple of weeks. > > This is a rural area, almost no cellphone network coverage. Internet > connection is poor, a 4 miles 2.3 GHz link to a home in town, as the good 5 > GHz was damaged during a storm. > > The contest started last night and I was still soldering wires to the > protection boxes while listening to some good East Coast signal. > > I wrote a message to Pepe to his WhastApp. When he wakes up from his > siesta first thing he will ask me is "what the hell is a remote?" > > Zé Carlos, muito grato pelos elogios, our tiny contest farm works! it's > encouraging. > > 73 > Jose, EA7KW > _ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > > _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Topband: EA7PP - Remote
Hi all, I have just subscribed to this reflector- A friend of mine told me there was something about EA7PP's operation during this w/e 160m contest. Someone suggested EA7PP uses a remote in the US as his signal was on the RBN outstanding. More than being an offending remark it's a compliment. We spent yesterday the whole evening at EA7PP's contest station setting a modest EWE pointing to US and built in site a receiver protecting device. Set up is very simple, an inverted L up to 18 metres on a fiber glass ple and then about 21 metres horizontal to the tower (23m) . Only 2 tuned elevated radials circling the plot as it is very small. Soil is very conductive and it has been raining a lot during the last couple of weeks. This is a rural area, almost no cellphone network coverage. Internet connection is poor, a 4 miles 2.3 GHz link to a home in town, as the good 5 GHz was damaged during a storm. The contest started last night and I was still soldering wires to the protection boxes while listening to some good East Coast signal. I wrote a message to Pepe to his WhastApp. When he wakes up from his siesta first thing he will ask me is "what the hell is a remote?" Zé Carlos, muito grato pelos elogios, our tiny contest farm works! it's encouraging. 73 Jose, EA7KW _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
