Re: Topband: The band works!!
Dave, Was listening to you last night work those stations. Sadly I didn't / couldn't hear any of them - but you were nice and strong in EPA! Just out of curiosity, what is the noise level at your station? Regards, TomW3TA -Original Message- From: daraymond To: Tree ; 160 Sent: Fri, Oct 19, 2018 11:42 am Subject: Re: Topband: The band works!! Some other pleasant surprises. Last evening worked UY0ZG, RZ1OA, UX1A, OH0Z (a regular) plus a handful of the usual EU. So some nice prop more or less over the pole. The real surprise came when R8CA called in from Z18. This morning another Z18, R0SR called in. 73. . .Dave, W0FLS -Original Message- From: Tree Sent: Friday, October 19, 2018 9:40 AM To: 160 Subject: Topband: The band works!! Very nice opening to start off the DX season here at my new QTH. Worked a handful of Northern Europeans with good signals. Seemed like most of the West Coast was working them - although maybe not down South. Still only at 11 radials - but it felt like the system was working FB last night. The Hi-Z RX array really is working well too at its new home. SM5EDX could not be copied unless it was pointing North. Found three noise sources - one was my switching power supply that I hooked up while sitting right next to my radio and bandscope. Not a good idea!! Another one is a uv water purifier system that is located in the middle of the RX array. It generates a small noise over a 5 kHz spread. Hoping to fix it with some ferrite and shielding. Great sign that conditions might be good for the PreStew which starts tomorrow. 73 Tree N6TR Manning, OR _ 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: The band works!!
Some other pleasant surprises. Last evening worked UY0ZG, RZ1OA, UX1A, OH0Z (a regular) plus a handful of the usual EU. So some nice prop more or less over the pole. The real surprise came when R8CA called in from Z18. This morning another Z18, R0SR called in.73. . .Dave, W0FLS -Original Message- From: Tree Sent: Friday, October 19, 2018 9:40 AM To: 160 Subject: Topband: The band works!! Very nice opening to start off the DX season here at my new QTH. Worked a handful of Northern Europeans with good signals. Seemed like most of the West Coast was working them - although maybe not down South. Still only at 11 radials - but it felt like the system was working FB last night. The Hi-Z RX array really is working well too at its new home. SM5EDX could not be copied unless it was pointing North. Found three noise sources - one was my switching power supply that I hooked up while sitting right next to my radio and bandscope. Not a good idea!! Another one is a uv water purifier system that is located in the middle of the RX array. It generates a small noise over a 5 kHz spread. Hoping to fix it with some ferrite and shielding. Great sign that conditions might be good for the PreStew which starts tomorrow. 73 Tree N6TR Manning, OR _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Topband: The band works!!
Very nice opening to start off the DX season here at my new QTH. Worked a handful of Northern Europeans with good signals. Seemed like most of the West Coast was working them - although maybe not down South. Still only at 11 radials - but it felt like the system was working FB last night. The Hi-Z RX array really is working well too at its new home. SM5EDX could not be copied unless it was pointing North. Found three noise sources - one was my switching power supply that I hooked up while sitting right next to my radio and bandscope. Not a good idea!! Another one is a uv water purifier system that is located in the middle of the RX array. It generates a small noise over a 5 kHz spread. Hoping to fix it with some ferrite and shielding. Great sign that conditions might be good for the PreStew which starts tomorrow. 73 Tree N6TR Manning, OR _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband