Re: Topband: E51M

2012-04-04 Thread Jose E. Ribeiro Sa
Wow, E51 to EA at noon time in topband??? That must be a miracle antenna with a internet gateway in the west-coast, Hi! 73 Jose CT1EEB 4.04.12 1419 Z (Edited) The team was on 160 today at 1231z to 1329z. The frequency used was 1826.5. Station contacted were from JA, VK, EA, W6, KP4, to nam

Re: Topband: E51M

2012-04-04 Thread Jose Orellana
EA hi hi > Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 21:46:27 -0700 > From: wa9...@yahoo.com > To: topband@contesting.com > Subject: Re: Topband: E51M > > 4.04.12 1419 Z (Edited) > The team was on 160 today at 1231z to 1329z. The frequency used was 1826.5. > Station contacted were from JA, VK, EA, W6, KP4,

Re: Topband: E51M

2012-04-04 Thread Jim WA9YSD
4.04.12 1419 Z (Edited) The team was on 160 today at 1231z to 1329z. The frequency used was 1826.5.  Station contacted  were from JA, VK, EA, W6, KP4, to name a few. Leon, (K2EWB)   Stay on course, fight a good fight, and keep the faith. Jim K9TF/WA9YSD ___

Topband: Adventures with tuners

2012-04-04 Thread Bill Cromwell
Oh good grief, My antenna was frustrating the heck outta me. I have been using a big commercially built tuner with a clearly marked post for a "single wire antenna". Thats where my end fed wire goes. The tuner was "doing something" but I was just not getting satisfaction out in the back yard. Fina

Re: Topband: E51M

2012-04-04 Thread Gary K9GS
This is frustrating too from the US Midwest Herb. It happens all the time. Equally frustrating are stations in AF working EU & East Coast NA all evening and never standing by for Midwest stations. It's usually very difficult to get through the EU curtain. Or, if the do ask for EU and East Co

Re: Topband: E51M

2012-04-04 Thread Hardy Landskov
Let me chime in also when West African DXPD's get on at 2200Z, work til 2400Z and then disappear not realizing that the West Coast of NA still has 2 to 3 hours of daylight left. Can't they look at a Geoclock or something before they leave for the DXPD and plan accordingly??? This is not Rocket

Re: Topband: E51M

2012-04-04 Thread ct1ilt
Hi Herb, wel I think they were on 80m CW a few times, just not the exact good time for us and maybe also for you (Caribbean). I also guess they have lots of QRN on their side.   We will see what happens in the morning. 73's Filipe CT1ILT   Citando Herb Schoenbohm : > Fillipe,  But for so

Re: Topband: E51M

2012-04-04 Thread Herb Schoenbohm
Fillipe, But for some reason they did not return to 80 CW for many days following that short stint. I sort of wonder why? Herb, KV4FZ On 4/4/2012 3:16 PM, ct1...@sapo.pt wrote: > They seem to have the antenna up already, I wonder if they will be qrv in > the morning at EU Sun rise (at least

Re: Topband: E51M

2012-04-04 Thread Herb Schoenbohm
No problem with that Cliveand I sure can wait till 0600. Unfortunately some EU operator DXpeditions in the Pacific do exactly that with EU only until they see the grey line hits the continent, go QRT, and then come back at 11:00 after my SR to work the NA big guns. This is exactly what ha

Re: Topband: E51M

2012-04-04 Thread Jim Brown
On 4/4/2012 1:45 PM, Clive GM3POI wrote: > Our 160m available time will be from there SS at 0445z until our > Sunrise 0530z that is a total of 45 minutes against your likely six hours. I > think it highly reasonable IF they were QRV, to say EU only. When geography imposes that sort of limits on

Re: Topband: E51M

2012-04-04 Thread Clive GM3POI
Herb, Looking from an EU point of view. You will realise that the whole of EU will lose propagation at about 06z. You then have about six hours before sunrise , surely enough time. Our 160m available time will be from there SS at 0445z until our Sunrise 0530z that is a total of 45 minut

Re: Topband: E51M

2012-04-04 Thread ct1ilt
They seem to have the antenna up already, I wonder if they will be qrv in the morning at EU Sun rise (at least Western EU - CT,EA,F,G,GW etc). I worked them on 80m last week and they had a decent signal here.   Filipe CT1ILT   Citando Herb Schoenbohm : > Jim, > > E51M operation has super

Re: Topband: E51M

2012-04-04 Thread Herb Schoenbohm
Jim, E51M operation has super signals on all high bands but their interest does not seem to be in 160 at all. I have asked them countless times and was told yesterday that there is some difficulty in getting up an antenna.. The SSB tent said they a have even sent over two of their crew to hel

Topband: more adventures - antenna

2012-04-04 Thread Bill Cromwell
Hi, I have been in trouble getting anywhere on top band despite some successful QSOs. The Ranger is working pretty well and I think is close to factory spec on 40 meters now (but still too drifty for me). After I move that dropping resistor outside the VFO cage I'll evaluate it again. Maybe that w

Topband: 7X - Algeria

2012-04-04 Thread IZ5MOQ
Hello everyone, I am trying to fix my DXCC on 160M ( more than 90 entities are already worked ) and I'm trying to do "the final sprint" ( till 100/101 ) with some easy-ones ( geographically, from here ). Do you know if on this period someone is active from Algeria? 73 Alessandro, IZ5MOQ W6MOQ

Topband: 9M2AX

2012-04-04 Thread David Raymond
One of Topband's most faithful ops, Ross/9M2AX, has been coming through most mornings here in Iowa near the spring equinox. He was coming through again this morning but was not able to copy me. I did work him on 30 March at 1143z . . .he was 449 that morning. He is usually on 1831.5. 73. .

Re: Topband: E51M

2012-04-04 Thread David Raymond
I talked with the 10m op yesterday afternoon (4April at 0011z). He said they were continuing work on the 160m antenna and would be working on it "all day." I did not hear them on 160m this morning. 73. . .Dave W0FLS - Original Message - From: "Jim WA9YSD" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 0

Topband: E51M

2012-04-04 Thread Jim WA9YSD
  Check out E51M on the call search for E51M updates are posted there.  Latest post: 4.02.12  2257 Z I spoke to the Team Leader about 30 minutes ago. Because the sat. phone is still too noisy, we spoke on 12 meters. Here are the two matters he related to me;  The Six meter station is availabl