Re: Topband: HC1PF on TB Tuesday 17th February 2015
HC1PF, Luis, was having fun last night with a solid/non-QSB signal working a nice EU pileup. He was a 579 when we QSOed and I was running somewhere around 300W with the losses, probably closer to 200 at the antenna. Nice to hear him again, it'll take awhile to get used to hearing his new call. 73, Gary KA1J --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Re: Topband: HC1PF on TB Tuesday 17th February 2015
Luis is ten km east of Quito, only one thousand feet (300 meters) south of the equator at an elevation of 7800 feet. In Quito they refer to their dry season (Jun-Sep) as summer and their wet season (Oct-May) as winter. Most days are in the upper 60s and most nights are in the upper 40s. Temperatures rarely exceeding 90 and are only very rarely below freezing. 73 Frank W3LPL - Original Message - From: Ross Primrose n...@n4rp.com To: Charlie Cunningham charlie-cunning...@nc.rr.com, Rune Øye runee...@hotmail.com, topband@contesting.com Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 3:35:52 PM Subject: Re: Topband: HC1PF on TB Tuesday 17th February 2015 HC1PF is, according to QRZ, a whopping 10' (yeah, minutes, not degrees) south of the equator. Summer/winter is pretty much meaningless that close to the equator... 73, Ross N4RP On 2/17/2015 4:50 AM, Charlie Cunningham wrote: Well, do keep in mind, Rune, that it's summertime in Ecuador, and he has summertime QRN, whereas it's wintertime in LA , so the band is quieter where you are! J 73, Charlie,K4OTV -Original Message- From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Rune Øye Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 2:29 AM To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Topband: HC1PF on TB Tuesday 17th February 2015 HC1PF was literally 5NN around 10 min before my local SR this morning. Most of the time he is 559 to 579. Seems there is many EU stations on but many suffer the same as me :-) still not in log. I guess he has an RX issue noisy band none RX antenna etc. However we cant complain about his effort. 73 Rune LA7THA _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband http://www.contesting.com/_topband _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband -- FCC Section 97.313(a) “At all times, an amateur station must use the minimum transmitter power necessary to carry out the desired communications.” _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Re: Topband: HC1PF on TB Tuesday 17th February 2015
Luis HC1PF is constructing and trying out various solutions to his RX noise, and is very much aware that he is TX much better than RX. He has a unique situation I can't get into, but he definitely has not given up on RX. He's a pretty good demonstration of an L over FCP for TX, if you needed one. :) 73, Guy. K2AV On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:13 PM, donov...@starpower.net wrote: Luis is ten km east of Quito, only one thousand feet (300 meters) south of the equator at an elevation of 7800 feet. In Quito they refer to their dry season (Jun-Sep) as summer and their wet season (Oct-May) as winter. Most days are in the upper 60s and most nights are in the upper 40s. Temperatures rarely exceeding 90 and are only very rarely below freezing. 73 Frank W3LPL - Original Message - From: Ross Primrose n...@n4rp.com To: Charlie Cunningham charlie-cunning...@nc.rr.com, Rune Øye runee...@hotmail.com, topband@contesting.com Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 3:35:52 PM Subject: Re: Topband: HC1PF on TB Tuesday 17th February 2015 HC1PF is, according to QRZ, a whopping 10' (yeah, minutes, not degrees) south of the equator. Summer/winter is pretty much meaningless that close to the equator... 73, Ross N4RP On 2/17/2015 4:50 AM, Charlie Cunningham wrote: Well, do keep in mind, Rune, that it's summertime in Ecuador, and he has summertime QRN, whereas it's wintertime in LA , so the band is quieter where you are! J 73, Charlie,K4OTV -Original Message- From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Rune Øye Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 2:29 AM To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Topband: HC1PF on TB Tuesday 17th February 2015 HC1PF was literally 5NN around 10 min before my local SR this morning. Most of the time he is 559 to 579. Seems there is many EU stations on but many suffer the same as me :-) still not in log. I guess he has an RX issue noisy band none RX antenna etc. However we cant complain about his effort. 73 Rune LA7THA _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband http://www.contesting.com/_topband _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband -- FCC Section 97.313(a) “At all times, an amateur station must use the minimum transmitter power necessary to carry out the desired communications.” _ 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: HC1PF on TB Tuesday 17th February 2015
Well, do keep in mind, Rune, that it's summertime in Ecuador, and he has summertime QRN, whereas it's wintertime in LA , so the band is quieter where you are! J 73, Charlie,K4OTV -Original Message- From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Rune Øye Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 2:29 AM To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Topband: HC1PF on TB Tuesday 17th February 2015 HC1PF was literally 5NN around 10 min before my local SR this morning. Most of the time he is 559 to 579. Seems there is many EU stations on but many suffer the same as me :-) still not in log. I guess he has an RX issue noisy band none RX antenna etc. However we cant complain about his effort. 73 Rune LA7THA _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband http://www.contesting.com/_topband _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
