Topband: Looking for OK, AK HI scheds for WAS
I am getting close to applying for my 160M WAS but have never been able to get OK, AK and HI. My marginal antenna (longwire of unknown length tuned remotely with a SGC tuner) does not help much for AK and HI and I am not surprised that I have never heard either location. If anyone is willing to set up a sched from OK that would be great. Would have to use some form of WSJT to make the AK and HI contacts. 73 Zack N8FNR ___ Stew Perry Topband Distance Challenge coming on December 29th.
Topband: Pixel Technologies Magnetic RX Loop – any users out there?
I have been considering buying a K9AY antenna but can only have it up during the late fall through spring. There is no way I can keep it up all year is because it would have to be in my backyard a nd I would need to cut the grass where it is installed. Down it would have to come every spring. So I recently saw an ad for the RF PRO-1A in QST and thought that thought that it might be a decent RX antenna for my situation that I could keep up year round. Would mount it on the side of my house and turn it with a cheap rotor. http://www.pixelsatradio.com/PDF/RF_PRO-1A_Cut_sheet.pdf It would be used in conjunction with my Flex-5000, a SteppIR BigIR for 80-10 and an inverted L for 160. Since my Flex-5000 has diversity RX my thought was that using the RF PRO-1A and one of my TX antennas would be a good combination. So my question is are there any RF PRO-1A users on the list and if so what do they think of the RF PRO-1A on 160? 73 Zack N8FNR ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
