Recent thunderstorm activity brought my antenna down.
Given a decent weather day, it will be put back in
the air at a greater height.
73 & Best DX
Charlie
WD5BJT
See September 2006 CQ Magazine for a published work.
www.qsl.net/wd5bjt
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Hi Roger,
We did QSO a couple of days ago but that
doesn't change your question. It's a good
question and there's been some important
answers thus far.
I can say that I haven't had as many
people in your direction coming back to me
as I did a few years ago. That might be
because I need to
For many of us in NA we cannot put out any receive antennas until after the
corn and beans have all been harvested which sometimes can be as late as mid
November. Without those RX antennas DXing on 160 is useless. I'm still
waiting for the farmer to take the corn down here. 73, gary
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QRN still at summer levels here in Ohio.
Has been especially bad with the storms
that have passed thru the south. The lightning
static from them is single hop to most of the
eastern US.
de K8RYU
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In my case, I set up a quick and dirty 160m antenna last year and it was so
quick and dirty that it wouldn't work. I planned to put up a permanent one
after I resided my house this summer but I didn't reside my house this
summer...so...next year maybe?
Sean WA1TE
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 2:53 PM
In my case I have been listening every night the last few weeks between 2300
and 0200 and find it hard to pick out anything due to the S7 to S9 noise levels
at my QTH. Not even worth calling CQ if I can't hear anything. I may
experiment with a receive antenna this year but I don't live
I listen for CW and FT8. My receive antenna is an unterminated BOG
which does a barely acceptable job for what it is. I often hear South
American, Pacific and Asian stations on CW, but rarely hear Europe.
I know my receive antenna is not up to the job, but there is not much
I can do about it
The USA is a big country; four time zones. Sunset on the east coast is three +
hours before our sunset here in AZ. By the time we have full darkness (~0100Z)
you guys across the pond are all asleep. If you are up and on, we have three
time zones of QRM and several more hops to deal with.
For my case it’s pretty simple. As long as the grass is growing and needs
mowed, no 160M antennas.
Typically Nov 1 is when I do the last mowing, and it takes several weeks
afterwards to get everything up and running.
73 Mark K3MSB
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Nothing against FT8 or FT8 enthusiasts, but FT8 activity has certainly
siphoned off a lot of activity on CW, as many of us have predicted and
feared. Anyone doubting this just needs to tune the lower portion of the
band then tune up the band and listen for a moment. I, for one, will be
I know you guys in North America have a lot of Lightning & Static problems
in the summer . . . but surely that's all gone now?
If so, why is there so little activity on CW from NA on Top Band?
Every night there's usually a load of us Europeans on from your Sunset time,
calling CQ DX.
The band
I would echo Tim's remarks. I bought a bunch of Russian caps on EPAY for
a 160 meter amplifier and they overheated and changed value. One blew
up. They were horrible as a plate coupling cap. The seller advised me
that they were only good for uncritical bypassing chores. Now I have a
pile of
I had a cap like that in my Viewstar PT2500 that I bought new in 1985.
After a second or two of transmitting - the power output dropped and I had
to retune the loading control. Fixed it with a stack of 10,000 pf silver
micas in series.
I am going to transmit for a minute or two with full power
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