Re: Topband: 160 Test Aurora
I did fairly well all considering I had set the alarm for 5AM EST Saturday to get any gray line contacts and vaguely remember hitting unsuccessfully the the snooze button instead turned off the alarm. As a result I didn't work any AK, BC, MB or NT sections. Those missed four early morning hours gave me a hit against my game plan. It's a good thing I checked everything at the antenna site last week before the contest as some large branches had fallen onto my 160 wire another branch bent the base matching coil. That's an ongoing problem when you have a radial bed wire antennas in the woods next to a salt marsh. Lots of rotten limbs falling trees coming down in every strong storm. It is what I've got and can't do better here. Minus the snow you're dealing with, looks like your antenna conditions are as liable as mine. 73, Gary KA1J Finished rebuilding my windstorm destroyed Inv-L Sat eve around 6pm in the dark headlamp on. Twenty above and warm. Snow and four downed trees so had to crawl around to hang new cords and elevated wires. Tuned up nice and low at 1830 and heard some `6´s, `7´s, a displaced 9, and KH6LC above the S4-5 floor. Good sign. Took a nap. Big mistake. By 0600 on the Band had died in Fairbanks @ 64 North...the Aurora overhead was a Level 7 and that means take 2 big ones and go back to bed. The P3 bandscope looked like a nice blue waterfall with no falling CW debris. K3 was signal silent. The JA´s were chirping on 40 so it wasn´t the station or antenna. Maybe the Big Stew will be better. 73, Gary NL7Y _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Re: Topband: 160 Test Aurora
On 12/9/2013 10:23 AM, Gary Smith wrote: I did fairly well all considering I had set the alarm for 5AM EST Saturday to get any gray line contacts and vaguely remember hitting unsuccessfully the the snooze button instead turned off the alarm. As a result I didn't work any AK, BC, MB or NT sections. Those missed four early morning hours gave me a hit against my game plan. ... Although I had a hard time forcing myself out of bed at 5 in the morning on Saturday, it was good that I did. Tuning to the DX window, the first station I heard was KL7RA CQing loud and clear and getting no replies. Got AK in the log. Then later that evening I heard you and got CT logged. Thanks to both of you for new ones confirmed via LoTW. Only four left (RI, ME, WV, and MS) to complete my quest for CW WAS via LoTW. (I've actually worked WV and MS, but no LoTW confirmations.) Cheers, Gus Hansen, KB0YH Denver, CO _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Topband: 160 Test Aurora
Finished rebuilding my windstorm destroyed Inv-L Sat eve around 6pm in the dark headlamp on. Twenty above and warm. Snow and four downed trees so had to crawl around to hang new cords and elevated wires. Tuned up nice and low at 1830 and heard some ‘6’s, ‘7’s, a displaced 9, and KH6LC above the S4-5 floor. Good sign. Took a nap. Big mistake. By 0600 on the Band had died in Fairbanks @ 64 North…the Aurora overhead was a “Level 7” and that means take 2 big ones and go back to bed. The P3 bandscope looked like a nice blue waterfall with no falling CW debris. K3 was signal silent. The JA’s were chirping on 40 so it wasn’t the station or antenna. Maybe the Big Stew will be better. 73, Gary NL7Y _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
