On 7/14/2018 6:56 PM, Larry via Topband wrote:
Here is my opinion:
160- extremely loud and easy to work. Can’t believe that someone on the west
coast couldn’t make a contact!
Hi Larry
I saw your spot about how loud they were (from AZ) on the first morning.
Not even audible in central CA at
Here is my opinion:
15- weak but easily worked on SSB
20- loud and worked on both modes easily.
40- loud and worked on both modes easily
80- no antenna
160- extremely loud and easy to work. Can’t believe that someone on the west
coast couldn’t make a contact!
Very good operation considering the
Agree. At my QTH 47.6 N (Seattle) the oval is almost always in the way
to EU so long path on 80 is more reliable winter months if the EU's hang
around for the west coast sunrise. So far EU on 160 has been very
difficult. Not complaining since I was one of the lucky 120 that worked
KH1 on
JC, Tim,
The 80 m antenna was not only not over the salt water, it was far more
shielded to the NE by the berm at the top of the beach. Maybe that is why it
produced weaker signal in NA.
73,
George
On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 09:00:59 -0400
wrote:
Here in Florida the KH1 signal on 160m was much
Dave,
The "Fat" TX antenna worked pretty well towards the N - NW. Also, by the
early mornings I was able to turn up the TX power to 1400 W, as the other CW
stations went off the air.
So, Ukrain, while clearly at the edge, was entirely possible. Of course, I
would have been very suspicious if I
I had really good luck from Atlanta. I got them on
160, 80, 40 and 20 CW.
On 160 and 80 diversity RX with the Waller Flag at 95 feet and the Hi-Z 8
really made copy good.
On 40 I used the full size Telrex monobander at 112 ft.
73,
John, W4NU
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> On Jul 14, 2018, at
I see this stuff about how easy or difficult the KH1 operation was to work. I'm
on the west coast in northwestern Oregon and I personally found them one of the
worst operations to hear from the Pacific I've ever worked. Worked them on 80
and 40 for ATNO and on 20 and 17 too. The 80 meter
Hi Jim,
I consider myself a hard core CW op, I
think I've taken part in maybe 4-5 SSB
contests total in the last 39 years, maybe
10-15 or so RTTY contests. However, I've
been in easily several hundred CW
contests, some of which I've taken 1st
place in my class. I need 1 more ATNO for
Honor
Rick,
I live at about 59 deg North and also have operated from T2 and T32 of
which T32 must be similar to KH1. At T32 my guess on propagation is that we
could expect in a 4 week on air trip, four EU openings of one sort or
another.
On that basis the KH1 trip may get one or none, on a short
There was a lot of discussion about the Baker Is. Dxpedition
implying that the main impediment as to where they could work
was mutual darkness. Here in W6, we have many hours of mutual
darkness with EU, yet we rarely hear EU on 160 or even 80 meters.
(Except 80 meter long path during our
> On Jul 14, 2018, at 11:31 AM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
>
> I was decoded at VP8EME last night and the DP0 in Antarctica. No contacts
> but good decodes.
In the last couple weeks here in central Texas VP8EME has been on 160m FT8 with
a decodable/workable FT8 signal most evenings that I
I was decoded at VP8EME last night and the DP0 in Antarctica. No
contacts but good decodes.
On 7/11/2018 10:42 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
During the last 15 mins or so of CWT, stations worked on 160 included:
on the east G4UFK, not in test.
on the west N6RO
Western RBN's VE7CC, VE6WZ,
Thanks for the QSO!
The 160 contact was much easier than the 80m one and now I know why. I
was not around for the FT8 160 but I probably would have passed as I had
you guys on CW. Signals were pretty down everywhere but you guys heard
very very well.
Thanks for going!
W0MU
On
They said the same thing about 6m DX and FT8 is the dominate choice now.
On 7/13/2018 11:18 AM, Jim Thomson wrote:
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 22:19:07 -0400
From: GEORGE WALLNER
To: , ha...@tomisat.com
Subject: Topband: KH1/KH7Z TopBand Ops Brief
http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Greetings
I worked my first Zone 17 and Zone 18 stations last December within (about)
an hour of each other.
What interests me is that the bearing from me to those two stations were
within 10 degrees of each other.
Possible spotlight propagatio -- Close bearing and time?
Greetings Fellow Night-Owls!
My 160 meter antennas are typically put up in mid November and taken down
at the end of March as my wife likes the grass mowed on a regular basis.
The transmit antenna is a quarter wave INV-L with 15 to 20 ground radials
as long as I can make them. RX Antennas are a
Here in Florida the KH1 signal on 160m was much better than 80m. Almost
everyday it started s3 after an hour it was s6 to s7 and some days peaking s9
near sunrise.
At the same time on 80m, the signal was always at noise level, very hard to
work.
The WF has better gain on 80m because at
Thanks for the write up George!
What impresses me looking at Clublog stats, that is US East Coast (CQ zone 5)
has about the same number of 160M and 80M QSOs. This shows a super effort made
on 160M with quantifiable results.
I was surprised to work KH1 on 15M right before my midnight. That is
I have no axe to grind, I wasn't QRV. Hever, Nick does raise a good point.
First, if it is correct there is a small possibility of propagain around Sunset
for Serbia and Ukraine, 20 minute window to Baker Is. However, it's not
really the dx season for EU to Pacific.
With great respect
Peter, Peter
We all know each other here ( in Ukraine).
Hard DX, such as KH1, can hear even in the season (autumn-spring) as a
whole
several antennas - UR5AS, UR0MC, UX1UA ..
And now it's summer! July ..
Do not be children, gentlemen.
Nick,UY0ZG
Peter Voelpel писал 2018-07-14
It seems that nowadays there are many who believe that remote reception was
used by others when they were not able to work a dx station.
http://k9la.us/160m_Ducting_and_Spotlight_Propagation_revA.pdf
73
Peter, DJ7WW
-Original Message-
From: Topband
Dear George,Many thanks for your efforts on Topband.I was there all the
critical hours.Nothing heard so far here in South East EU.I enjoyed even trying
to hear, it is also fun.!!!Until next time.Agelos-SV3RF
On Friday, July 13, 2018, 5:19:41 AM GMT+3, GEORGE WALLNER
wrote:
Dear Top
Congratulations on a massive and successful effort under truly awful conditions.
You labored under physically extreme conditions. You got on the air. You STAYED on the air. You worked
steadily to improve based on what you learned - under conditions that are not even slightly conducive to
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