I started a thread about this very subject back in July at:
ham.stackexchange.com/questions/8940/what-is-the-cause-of-this-unusually-long-period-of-terrible-hf-band-conditions
Let us know your opinions. Several (except one) have posted references
there that this solar minimum is not *any* lower
Thanks for the clarification Dave. When did you last see consistent
SR peaks at your location?
I suspect that
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression shows the
source of our difficulties. The highest level of geomagnetic
activity in the present cycle started in late
Talking about poor propagation,
FWIW I have been concentrating on 40 and 80 meters SSB for quite sometime now.
Staying up till 0:800 or 09:00 Zulu on 80 meters listening to K2RR and others
work the two regular groups around 3.799 KHz and 3.795 KHz or so. The southern
California guys also do
Yup. I get emails all the time from people doing just that (I wish they
would ask their Beverage antenna questions here! :-)
Think of a rotatable 20m beam, on a tower and with a rotor. *You have to
point that towards the DX. And the same is true of a Beverage*, phased
vertical arrays, K9AY loop,
Hi Mike and the group,
Oh, the reason the antenna is going to the north is that it's the most
convinenant direction to run my first beverage. I also tried some RG-11 (also
scrap from some CATV company I think) as a BOG. It's about 170 feet (that's
what I had) and I used it to just check and
I worked 10 new ones, mostly in the in the Carribbean, in Nov/Dec and
got all excited about the coming season.
To date, in spite of following all the cluster spots, I have heard NO
European stations since 2009!
No RX antennas up yet, but plans underway.
VE7XF
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When I refer to a SR peak in my earlier post, I'm referring to an increase
in actual signal levels (with corresponding increase in S/N).
73. . . Dave, W0FLS
-Original Message-
From: Nick Hall-Patch
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2018 11:23 AM
To: Petr Ourednik ; topband@contesting.com
Hi Terry,
Is there a reason why you're pointing north? That's the wrong direction for
Aruba, especially with the very narrow beamwidth it has on 20m! :-)
On my Beverage antenna page at
www.w0btu.com/Beverage_antennas.html near the bottom, is an explanation of
where we should point our Beverages.
Hi folks,
I put up my first beverage recently. It's about 550-600 feet of 17 gauge
electric fence wire running to the north about 6-7 feet high. Not terminated
right now but using a beverage transformer I purchased on qth.com and have not
put on the termination yet. Using a 5' galvanized
Although my first ever top-band QSO was in 1959 and was a DX station (VE7) it's
only been in the last year or so that I've been semi-seriously working the
band. The impetus being a 9th band DXCC. At the moment, I have 82 entities
worked, 52 of them in the last 12 months. I'm clearly not an
W3TA Tom search,Log antenna on ground.Simple and only 15 ft on a side.It just
might work for you Jim W3TO
> On January 12, 2018 at 12:51 PM Thomas Hoyer wrote:
>
>
> I'm using a Battle Creek Special. I had plans to make some form of compact RX
> antenna - no room for long
I'm using a Battle Creek Special. I had plans to make some form of compact RX
antenna - no room for long wire antennas here - this fall, but other things got
in the way
Tom
W3TA
-Original Message-
From: Tim Duffy
To: 'Thomas Hoyer' ;
2018-01-12 16:41 GMT+01:00 Hans Hjelmström :
> Hallo Calle
>
> They are all on computer to computer FT8 mode ..Signals not being heard by
> operator.
> Ham radio is ,,,no more only computer doing the job,and all can
> do something else,while computer get log filled.
>
Agree Hasse! I have not seen many real dx-ers spotted on FT-8 though. I
think they´re just watching their computers. This morning, the only station
I heard was VE6WZ who called cq. He was heard for 2 hours peaking 599 so
there is nothing wrong with the condx!
Gott Nytt År!
Calle -SM6CPY
Wasn't some of the apparent peaking of signals at sunrise due to
improved signal to noise levels as noise levels drop at sunrise?
20 years ago for many of us, noise levels did actually drop at
sunrise. For many DXers now, (man-made) noise levels stay the same
after sunrise, so, no apparent
I also noticed the lack of SR peaks. On those mornings the peak seemed to
be about an hour before SR.
73, Glenn KD0Q
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 9:36 AM, wrote:
> There have been many mornings (in fact, most mornings) here in the Midwest
> where there has been little or
Hallo Calle
They are all on computer to computer FT8 mode ..Signals not being heard by
operator.
Ham radio is ,,,no more only computer doing the job,and all can
do something else,while computer get log filled.
Sorry but same indications as on 50 mc last summer.
Have fun Calle and hope
There have been many mornings (in fact, most mornings) here in the Midwest
where there has been little or no sunrise peak. If there is one at all, it
is weak. This seems to be consistent with the current pattern of overall
poor conditions. During periods of better conditions it seems we see
If everyone is checking rbn and dx spots and not calling cq, there is no
activity.
73 Carl SM6CPY
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Hi all,
the original question was about the signals level peak during the SR/SS
phenomenon time... did someone noticed the same "No Sunrise peak" behavior
please?
73 - Petr, OK1RP
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018, at 3:40 PM, Ken Boasi wrote:
> High noise levels must be driving people off the band.
High noise levels must be driving people off the band. Conditions have been
generally good in the last week, but activity has been light.
Have heard several UA9 stations on both 80/160 and worked a few on 80. Europe
has also been in very good on both bands.
I heard you working the US last
Hello Tom:
I am curious what your topband RX antenna is?
73
Tim K3LR
-Original Message-
From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Thomas
Hoyer
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2018 7:35 AM
To: ro...@wessexproductions.co.uk; topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband:
Some EU stations were S7 in Miami last night,
Unfortunately, noise on my TX antenna was also S7.
George
AA7JV
On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 07:34:58 -0500
Thomas Hoyer wrote:
I must be in a black hole as I have listened every night
this week and heard no EU. Probably doesn't
Hi Tom and Roger,
I decided to add my 2c as I noticed the same behavior with no GL peak for last
weeks
over here...
I remember the great peaks during the Grey line phenomenon condx window
years ago but not now. I tried to observing the condx during the GL window for
last
few weeks on TB
I must be in a black hole as I have listened every night this week and heard no
EU. Probably doesn't help I have an S7 to S9 noise level
though
Tom
W3TA
-Original Message-
From: Roger Kennedy
To: topband
The band has been open for DX from Europe almost every night this week . . .
so let's hear some more activity from you North American guys! (I'm
usually on from around 23.30 Z)
However . . . I'm still amazed that there seems to be no peak in signals
around our Sunrise
(in the old days, when
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