Re: Topband: [160] No NA Activity

[W7RH]

160m has been open to EU from left coast the last two evenings. last 
night QRN levels from major thunderstorms off east coast diminished and 
I had a brief pipe line to EU Russia.


Propagation from Arizona has been reasonable at sunset and into early 
evening before EU sunrise. After that the great wall goes up with aurora.


In the log: SM5EDX, SM3EVR, PJ4/K5KG, RA3FL, SM4DHF, LA1MFA, OH3XR, 
LY30LY, JA6FFK, HL5IVL, RK4FD, RC3FL, G3PQA, JI1AVY and JA7SPJ. VK6GX 
and VK6LW have both been loud near sunrise. There were half dozen or so 
brave CW types on band last night during ARRL DX SSB contest


By the way if you hear KN4RRQ on the band give him a call! Check out his 
QRZ page. QRP power using 1929 vintage breadboard TX and SoftRock RX.


I agree with Steve VE6WZ there are many new calls on the band as folks 
migrate away from dead HF bands. You new guys are always welcome in my log.


73 Bob, W7RH

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humanity." - Albert Einstein

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Re: Topband: [160] No NA Activity

[Jim Brown]

On 3/6/2020 12:06 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
I generally try to leave my radio listening to 160 FT8 at night when I 
go to bed.  I did decode some VK's last night.  Not much activity the 
last couple of days.


I often do that, especially during our winter months, but also around 
the spring and fall equinox. Most FT8 operators feed their decodes to 
PSKReporter, a very useful site that can display activity on any band, 
for all stations or for a specific station, and for selected time 
periods. It's a great way to study band conditions.


73, Jim K9YC
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Re: Topband: [160] No NA Activity

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

I generally try to leave my radio listening to 160 FT8 at night when I 
go to bed.  I did decode some VK's last night.  Not much activity the 
last couple of days.


I have nothing for 630.  I just started playing with 60m chasing VP8PJ 
and they were super easy there.   There seem to be many many deaf 
stations on 60m or they just don't want to talk to me LOL!


W0MU

On 3/5/2020 1:22 PM, W0BTU wrote:
I just started following the 630m and 2200m "#KHz" Slack Chat. It 
looks to me like many CW folks have moved there. Some LF hams use CW 
there almost exclusively, although there is a lot of narrowband 
digital there (especially on 2200m).


It was kindly pointed out to me there by N03M and KB5NJD that 630 
meter antennas are not really all that different from 160. And LF is 
kind of a new frontier, similar to what radio was in the early 20th 
century (where if you wanted to get on, you had to build your own 
radios). Having said that, some transverters and SDRs are now 
available. But you'll have to built your own power amplifier.


In a lot of ways, it's like amateur radio was decades ago when the 
majority of hams actually had technical know-how and built their own 
antennas, etc.


This is /not/ to say that anyone here should up and move to LF. But 
when nobody is on 160, why not give a listen there on your Beverages 
or browse these websites?


http://no3m.net/
http://njdtechnologies.net/links/
http://www.n1bug.com/lfmf/

73, Mike
W0BTU

On Thu, Mar 5, 2020, 6:56 AM Roger Kennedy 
mailto:ro...@wessexproductions.co.uk>> 
wrote:



Well I came on for a few hours last night . . .

Conditions were good, as my RBN reports with NA sites were between
20 and 35 dB over the noise.

But I only worked a handful of NA stations !  (there were several
other European and Russian stations on too)

It's a real shame there's so little CW activity . . . this Season
will be over soon !

Roger G3YRO


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73, Mike
W0BTU
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