George is spot-on with his comments.
I logged K1N from W6 early in the expedition at 0857Z on 3 February for
my first QSO with K1N. The absence of Euros made it a relatively easy QSO.
Garry, NI6T
On 2/17/2015 6:28 PM, GeorgeWallner wrote:
Jon,
I was one of the 160 m operators.
NA callers
I consider VP6DX to be one of the top all time 160 meter DX operations. Despite
being thousands of miles from North America, they worked many small stations
including me (at the time had just moved so a random wire thrown over the house
and 100 watts).
K1N had a great signal on 160, well over
George:
Thanks for the note. All the K1N ops did an outstanding job !
That is an excellent tip re. getting on after European sunrise and before JA
sunset for DXpeditions on the low bands.
I got up a number of nights ~ 2 am - 4 am CST to try for K1N. I was successful
on 40 and 80 meters
Alaska is definitely a very special case
Garry
On 2/17/2015 7:52 PM, KL7RA wrote:
I logged K1N from W6 early in the expedition at 0857Z on 3 February for
my first QSO with K1N. The absence of Euros made it a relatively easy QSO.
But not for all of North America. I also waited until Europe
Jon,
I was one of the 160 m operators.
NA callers were thick during the evening hours when they
were competing with EU, making for some difficult
pile-ups, but after midnight (and EU sunrise), often there
were very few NA callers.
George
AA7JV
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 22:57:38 +
jon
True, George1
Those were excellent times for 160, 80 and 40m and worked well for me!
There's a lot to be said for keeping an eye on the daylight map and being
where the competition isn''t! My 160 antenna has been down for a few years,
but I had a very easy 160 QSO with K1N using the remnant of
On Tue,2/17/2015 6:28 PM, GeorgeWallner wrote:
Jon,
I was one of the 160 m operators.
NA callers were thick during the evening hours when they were
competing with EU, making for some difficult pile-ups, but after
midnight (and EU sunrise), often there were very few NA callers.
That's
I logged K1N from W6 early in the expedition at 0857Z on 3 February for
my first QSO with K1N. The absence of Euros made it a relatively easy QSO.
But not for all of North America. I also waited until Europe was shut
off but before the path to Asia started but no luck. K1N could get well
Jon,
If you haven't already, check this app out! It was just great figuring out
time slots to try the various bands for the K1N expedition! It's a VERY
useful tool for DXers - especially low-band DXers! Sure beats the old
plastic DX Edge that we used in the old days. Very useful for looking
HC1PF, Luis, was having fun last night
with a solid/non-QSB signal working a
nice EU pileup. He was a 579 when we QSOed
and I was running somewhere around 300W
with the losses, probably closer to 200 at
the antenna.
Nice to hear him again, it'll take awhile
to get used to hearing his new
Luis is ten km east of Quito, only one thousand feet (300 meters)
south of the equator at an elevation of 7800 feet.
In Quito they refer to their dry season (Jun-Sep) as summer and their
wet season (Oct-May) as winter. Most days are in the upper 60s and
most nights are in the upper 40s.
Luis HC1PF is constructing and trying out various solutions to his RX
noise, and is very much aware that he is TX much better than RX. He
has a unique situation I can't get into, but he definitely has not
given up on RX.
He's a pretty good demonstration of an L over FCP for TX, if you needed one.
Well, do keep in mind, Rune, that it's summertime in Ecuador, and he has
summertime QRN, whereas it's wintertime in LA , so the band is quieter where
you are! J
73,
Charlie,K4OTV
-Original Message-
From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Rune Øye
A good analysis of all this can be found from IV3PRK as he planned his antenna
for his new QTH in HC land.
http://www.iv3prk.it/user/image/site2-inverted-l-vs-vertical-t.pdf
73...Stan, K5GO
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On Feb 16, 2015, at 6:14 AM, Tom W8JI w...@w8ji.com wrote:
Tom, Thanks for the
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