I have had both.
First, the SAL-30 is currently being used at my station and hears considerably
better than my 160 vertical. It exhibits F/B somewhere around 15-20 dBs on
160. It is located about 100 ft from the nearest antenna (the westernmost
vertical of my 4 sq for 80), about 150 feet from
Joe and all,
Looking at the YCCC plots show all back lobes on 160 meters to be right at 20
dB down. The Hi-Z 4-square as shipped has only 2 side lobes and both are at 20
dB down with a notch directly off the back at usual 30+ dB down. Its true there
are plots around that show the -13 dB sid
> Any experience with the same or thoughts?
I would recommend looking into the YCCC "9 circle" (or "5 square")
array. Even though the kits are no longer available boards appear
to be available from the PI4CC group.
The vertical arrays are less susceptible to wildlife damage than
the SAL (due
I have an 8-circle array in the woods. The tallest trees in my area are about
60-70 feet, so your trees might be larger and denser than mine. However, my
system works very well, judging by the fact that its pattern seems to match
very closely the theoretical pattern for this array. In other
Since the inception of the Hi-Z antenna products we have recommended that
the elements be distant from foliage by at least 5 feet clearance. We have also
recommended that tall trees be 10 feet away from the elements. We have had
customers install arrays literally among forests without their r
The Schedule aimed for Europe takes place on THURSDAY Feb 21, from z
until 0600z. For me, those hours are Wed local time.
Sorry for the error.
Dennis HQ9X
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From: Dennis Egan
Date: Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 15:05
Subject: Topband: HQ9X 160/80/60m
To: Topband
For those in JA and the Far East, I will be QRV Wed 2/20 from 0900z until
1200z or so (local daylight).
For those in Europe, Wed 2/20 I will be on from z until 0600z.
I will also be doing an entry in the CQ 160 SSB contest next weekend.
I may be on other times, but I will make sure I am on t
Would be interested in responses to this query as well. Am planning to erect
the 4 el Hi Z with 80 ft spacing in a forested area. Trees are a mix of hard
and soft wood. Average heights are 70 ft.
Gut feel is zero impact. Have 4 SQ for TX on both 160 and 80 in woods and seem
to work just fine.
Fun conditions but I had un-avoidable
obligations that kept me from any sincere
contest effort, I just got on to give
points. Didn't take part in any pileups,
just answered CQ's with nobody else
calling them.
As others have mentioned, Saturday was
much better and I was amazed how EU was
ki
Hi all, newb to the topband 160 reflector here so thank you for any coaching or
corrections on protocol…
I live on a heavily forested (douglas firs - almost all of which are 100’+)
piece of land.
I have enough room left to put up either an SAL 30 or a 4sq of 20’ verts with
80’ spacing. HiZ p
reading Mike's post reminded me of something else re: DX-Peditions of this
type.
I am talking about the Cheap and Easy vs the Lots of work and not cheap. We
have those where the idea is RATE so they do bands where they can get 200 per
hour and ignore the tough low bands or almost ignore them. Y
Hi Mike,
I think the lack of activity comments were about ordinary week nights.
Try again Tuesday and see if there are that many QSOs available. Let us
know what portion of DXCC you can get then. I don't have a working
transmitter at the moment but I do listen. There actually are QSOs to be
h
Typically I deal with S7+ noise at my station and have been stuck at 90
countries for a few years now.
This weekend I found the band to be a lot less noisy then usual (S3 to S5) and
I was able to add three new countries. I heard two other new ones HQ and KL7,
but I suppose they couldn't hear me
Well I came on 160m for a couple of hours on both Friday night and Saturday
night . . .
Managed to work 97 North American stations in total, so very pleased with
that !
Great to hear the band open.
(now if we could only get some of those stations to come on the Top Band
when there ISN'T a con
128 Qs and 50 DXCCs on TopBand this weekend with slightly less than a ½
effort (on all bands), so from my point of view, condx were good to very
good.
The last hour was probably the best, but with 3 or 4 spins through the band,
I had worked all that I heard, so went back to 40 and 80 each time.
FANTASTIC job Jeff ! ! !
I feel that even though I didn't make it on top band, it was a real thrill
to work Krassy via the LP
on 80m. It was also really cool to hear you a couple nights on 160m when
there was barely a whisper on 80m. (whoda thunkit?)
My hat is off to both of you and the te
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