Re: Topband: J6
Not 160 but I worked him on 12M on Dec 5 Gary KA1J > Re: J6/N7QT > > I worked him around 02z on the 10th on 80 CW and asked about 160 and > he said 'probably tomorrow' but I never heard him that night and I > stayed home from an event my wife wanted to go to as well to look for > him ... ouch He was on 30 m though. > > I heard somewhere that they had to share an antenna between 80 and 160 > and could do only one band at a time. > > I heard a local op on the 2meter FM repeater who was on previous > Buddipole expeditions, who spoke of this one as if it had already > finished. This was last night here. J6 would be new on topband here. > > I had not heard of any of the other J6 'buddipole' ops being on 160. > > 73 Bob k2euh > > > > Carl Jonsson wrote: > > Anybody hrd J6 /N7QT on 160? Heard him on 80 on Dec 11th, but since > > then nothing. Any news? 73 Carl SM6CPY > > ___ Topband reflector - > > topband@contesting.com > > ___ > Topband reflector - topband@contesting.com > ___ Topband reflector - topband@contesting.com
Re: Topband: J6
Hi Carl, I was in e-mail contact with N7QT during his J6 operation, which finished a couple of days ago. You are right, the antenna had to be shared with 160m and 80m, and for some reason could not be switched during the night. Hence, they had to commit to one band or the other before sundown. I found the operation on 160 very spotty, almost not really serious. I guess it was mainly a holiday operation. I had several "skeds" with them. On one occasion the sked didn't happen because the other op decided he wanted 80m that night. On another occasion, they operated on 1837, up in the digital modes segment, and I didn't even tune as high as that. On the last night apparently their antenna fell down, and they found it on the ground in the morning. Apparently they thought the band was a bit quiet - I wondered to myself how it was that they didn't notice something wrong with the SWR! All in all a bit of a non-event from my point of view. 73, Greg ZL3IX On 2012-12-15 12:19 a.m., Carl Jonsson wrote: Anybody hrd J6 /N7QT on 160? Heard him on 80 on Dec 11th, but since then nothing. Any news? 73 Carl SM6CPY ___ Topband reflector - topband@contesting.com ___ Topband reflector - topband@contesting.com
Re: Topband: J6
Re: J6/N7QT I worked him around 02z on the 10th on 80 CW and asked about 160 and he said 'probably tomorrow' but I never heard him that night and I stayed home from an event my wife wanted to go to as well to look for him ... ouch He was on 30 m though. I heard somewhere that they had to share an antenna between 80 and 160 and could do only one band at a time. I heard a local op on the 2meter FM repeater who was on previous Buddipole expeditions, who spoke of this one as if it had already finished. This was last night here. J6 would be new on topband here. I had not heard of any of the other J6 'buddipole' ops being on 160. 73 Bob k2euh Carl Jonsson wrote: > Anybody hrd J6 /N7QT on 160? Heard him on 80 on Dec 11th, but since then > nothing. Any news? > 73 Carl SM6CPY > ___ > Topband reflector - topband@contesting.com ___ Topband reflector - topband@contesting.com
