Re: Topband: A newbie question
I worked XV7BM on 160 at my sunrise (about 1400z) this morning, running about 900w, and transmitting/receiving on the same antenna, a half-sloper off a 110' tower. He was peaking over s-9 when I worked him. All the same facts applied to my QSO with HS0ZKX yesterday. Now if only XZ1Z would appear tomorrow morning... Good luck! 73, Jim W1YY Kingston, WA -Original Message- From: wa8...@wa8wzg.net Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:45 AM To: TopBand Subject: Topband: A newbie question To all,,, I am relatively new to 160,,, I work the vhf/uhf/Eme spectrum,so I am used to weak signal work,, I just moved to arizona,and decided to try 160!!,. I had no problem working the HS0 yesterday morning , but I could not hear the XV7 this morning,,I heard a lot of my neighbors working him... Could anyone give me any info on his xmit power and what type of receiving antenna those of you who worked him, were using?? Thanks!! Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Re: Topband: A newbie question
Tom, I worked XV7BM at 1328z this morning about 10 minutes before our SR. When I worked him, he was 559, but within 10 minutes he was 579! I'm running about 1400 watts out to a 70 ft vertical with (2) 50 ft top hat wires. I have over 100 135 ft ground radials. My RX antenna is a HI-Z 4 SQ antenna that works great! It increases the signal about one S unit, but also rejects noise off the sides and back. It has helped me greatly in hearing DX on 80m 160m. Ray, N6VR Chino, Valley North Central AZ On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:20 AM, jhsi...@comcast.net wrote: I worked XV7BM on 160 at my sunrise (about 1400z) this morning, running about 900w, and transmitting/receiving on the same antenna, a half-sloper off a 110' tower. He was peaking over s-9 when I worked him. All the same facts applied to my QSO with HS0ZKX yesterday. Now if only XZ1Z would appear tomorrow morning... Good luck! 73, Jim W1YY Kingston, WA -Original Message- From: wa8...@wa8wzg.net Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:45 AM To: TopBand Subject: Topband: A newbie question To all,,, I am relatively new to 160,,, I work the vhf/uhf/Eme spectrum,so I am used to weak signal work,, I just moved to arizona,and decided to try 160!!,. I had no problem working the HS0 yesterday morning , but I could not hear the XV7 this morning,,I heard a lot of my neighbors working him... Could anyone give me any info on his xmit power and what type of receiving antenna those of you who worked him, were using?? Thanks!! Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Re: Topband: A newbie question
Hi Tom, Welcome to topband! As you gain experience you will encounter many situations where your transmit antenna is inadequate for receiving. An excellent receiving antenna can provide as much as 10 dB improvement compared to an omnidirectional vertical transmitting antenna, not only in terms of signal to noise ratio, but also significantly improved ability to receive through pileup QRM and intentional or accidental QRM. Do you have adequate space for a receiving antenna? As with all things involving antennas, size matters... The highest performance receiving arrays such as the Hi-Z monoband active 8-circle array (200 foot diameter) or the W8JI/W5ZN/N4HY passive 8-circle array (350 foot diameter) require an acre or more well away from transmitting antennas. They provide truly astounding receiving improvement, but the expense and effort to install them is much greater than for smaller arrays. Small receiving antennas including the Array Solutions SAL-30, K9AY loops or flag antennas offer significant improvement at modest effort and cost, but they require only a 36 foot diameter circle. Perhaps the simplest receiving antenna is a Beverage, offering quite good performance for an investment of only a few hours work but they require at least 500 feet of length to obtain significant performance improvement compared to the popular small receiving arrays. W8JI has perhaps the largest Beverage array in use on topband, three 900 foot phased Beverages spaced 300 feet from each other. 73 Frank W3LPL - Original Message - From: wa8...@wa8wzg.net To: TopBand topband@contesting.com Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 3:45:53 PM Subject: Topband: A newbie question To all,,, I am relatively new to 160,,, I work the vhf/uhf/Eme spectrum,so I am used to weak signal work,, I just moved to arizona,and decided to try 160!!,. I had no problem working the HS0 yesterday morning , but I could not hear the XV7 this morning,,I heard a lot of my neighbors working him... Could anyone give me any info on his xmit power and what type of receiving antenna those of you who worked him, were using?? Thanks!! Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Re: Topband: A newbie question
Tom ole buddy.. Call me on the secret Zilla line and let's chat. We can hook a brother up !! :- On Tuesday, March 18, 2014, wa8...@wa8wzg.net wrote: To all,,, I am relatively new to 160,,, I work the vhf/uhf/Eme spectrum,so I am used to weak signal work,, I just moved to arizona,and decided to try 160!!,. I had no problem working the HS0 yesterday morning , but I could not hear the XV7 this morning,,I heard a lot of my neighbors working him... Could anyone give me any info on his xmit power and what type of receiving antenna those of you who worked him, were using?? Thanks!! Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband -- From the iPad _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
