I fully agree with John. I have been running 100 watts in to a dipole on 160
and all I am raising is electricity bill from years. Unless you have decent
power on TB no use warming the chair.
73
vu2gsm
Kanti
> On Mar 21, 2017, at 05:42, John Harden, D.M.D. wrote:
>
> If you want to work the ra
I sure agree with John, W4NU...I have been working on 160 DXCC with 80 watts
and an inverted-L for 20 years and only managed 65 countries. Just bought a
600 watt amp 3 months ago, worked country #99 yesterday and expect to work
#100 this week !! The received noise levels at so many stations arou
If you want to work the rare ones on Top Band low power is pointless...
You are simply banging your head against the wall... It takes maximum
power, great receiving antennas and a good transmitting antenna. I
really starting hearing well when I began using a rotary FLAG at 95 feet
in DIVERSITY
I too am using something similar, if not less effective, a Butternut HF 2v
with a homebrew TBR160 coil installed on a pushup mast 25 feet from terrace
(2nd floor) level, with 2 radials for 80 and 40m squeezed into my tiny 1400
sq feet terrace perimeter sloping around. Max power I have is 100W. I h
Hi Gang
I am especially pleased to announce that the UK edition of Dx'ing on the
Edge...the Thrill of 160M1 second edition (published by the RSGB) is now
available. I especially wish to thank Mark Algar, M1MPA for his help in making
this happen. It will surely make things more convenient for
Hi all,
One of the locals here is very into the JT -modes, almost exclusively
on topband. He uses 100W into a single Inv-L with two 1/4-wave radials
and nothing for RX. I think he's about halfway to 160 DXCC in a
calendar year and reports working everything he hears barefoot -- but
again, no RX an
In contests I call a lot of guys barefoot first and kick on the amp as needed.
Problem is usually a guy running full power can be heard out here but has an
S-8 noise level and can't hear 100W..Yes you can work a lot of DX with low
power, but as an ex-QRP club member I learned life if too short,
>FCC regs say you should use the minimum power necessary to establish
>communications.
Um, no. Here's what it actually says:
ยง97.313 Transmitter power standards.
(a) An amateur station must use the minimum transmitter power
necessary to carry out the desired communications.
Your "desired c
