Re: Topband: TN5R to start tonight on TB

2018-03-12 Thread Gary Smith
Jose, Thank you for the new one on 160. Your signals were very strong at 00:05Z in CT, some QSB but Q5. Have fun! 73, Gary KA1J > We'll start tonight on top band from the beautiful Congo coast. 880 ft > (270 m) Beverages set to NW, N and NE. An additional steerable diamond > shape loop is

Re: Topband: TN5R to start tonight on TB

2018-03-12 Thread Jose Ramon
Low bands better than yesterday. We hear rather well on beverages in spite of the storm crashes and many wandering noise around. I needed to repeat the calls many times. Tomorrow will try to improve the tx antenna efficiency with more radials and hooking higher the top part of the L. We'll try to

Re: Topband: TN5R to start tonight on TB

2018-03-12 Thread John Farrer via Topband
9M0W stopped now. 1824 clear. TN5R was weak but readable at 2025 on 1824 but appears to have gone back to 80. GL John G3XHZ Sent from my iPhone > On 12 Mar 2018, at 19:54, Victor Goncharsky wrote: > > The problem of pile-up distribution is even more complex since there will be >

Re: Topband: TN5R to start tonight on TB

2018-03-12 Thread Victor Goncharsky via Topband
The problem of pile-up distribution is even more complex since there will be four simultaneous African DXPeditions 3C, TJ, TN and TY. Therefore some coordination between team leaders is needed. The good example of almost perfect solution was VK0/FT4J case. >Понедельник, 12 марта 2018, 18:22

Re: Topband: TN5R to start tonight on TB

2018-03-12 Thread John Farrer via Topband
Jose 1824 occupied every day by 9M0W pile up till their SR 2240z. Please give us another frequency to monitor for TN5R. 73 John G3XHZ Sent from my iPhone > On 12 Mar 2018, at 14:32, John Farrer via Topband > wrote: > > Thanks Jose. Many of us monitoring 1824 last

Re: Topband: TN5R to start tonight on TB

2018-03-12 Thread John Farrer via Topband
Thanks Jose. Many of us monitoring 1824 last night. I stayed up till 0300z but nothing heard. Will you be on tonight? If your signal is not picked up by rbn can you please cq at least at the beginning of each hour so that we can all monitor? 73 John G3XHZ Sent from my iPhone > On 11 Mar 2018,