Hi Pete
That is one interesting find. I'm going to have to do some tests and see
if I have the same issue.
My RX antenna and TX antennas are about 2 wavelengths apart and both are
very well choked into a 2x8 switch.
I am going to have to give this some thought.
73, Mike va3mw
On Mon, Dec 9,
Unless you're in NA and looking for DX. On this end it was like WAS contest for
me. I did manage to work all continents and a few ATNO. Surprisingly I missed
some sections in adjacent states, CA, NM and NV.
Strictly a S operation with a modest station; inverted-L with only (so far) a
dozen
Hello,
>> http://www.crosscountrywireless.net/loop_antenna_amplifier.htm
I was about to purchase this new antenna, when I saw a YouTube video
showing it in comparison to the Wellbrook 1530LN, the Bonito ML200, and
the el-cheapo ebay MLA-30.
Thank you to everyone who responded to my query. The transmitting
antenna was indeed coupling both noise and signals into my K9AY loops.
I disconnected it at the feedpoint and the noise level on the RX antenna
dropped 4 S-units! Fooling around today in steady rain (which may
affect the
Wow…great stuff Joe!
Thanks for that info.
On a "miles per watt” I think N3HEE qualifies as my best DX during the
contest..by a long shot!
At 2,000mi/ 5 watts you were 400 miles per watt.
EU ranges from 4,000-5,000, **assuming** 1 KW, that is only 4 or 5 miles per
watt.
My most distant DX was
Steve,
thanks for your patience digging out my signal of the noise! 160m QSO
with you is a highlite for me.
Vy 73 es cuagn,
Harry, DH1NBE
Am 09.12.2019 um 17:35 schrieb VE6WZ_Steve:
This was the first time I made a serious attempt at the ARRL 160m contest.
Usually I will just poke around and
I think some people used this feature without regard to actually listening
first. I had several instances where I was running when stations would just
pop on frequency and start CQing in my face. I knew that they could hear me
and thankfully most of them QSYd after a few CQs.
Ed K1EP
On Mon, Dec
Steve, I'm sure glad you stayed in the chair long enough to hear and work me.
I was running 5 watts. I called you many times throughout the contest before
you heard me Saturday evening during prop enhancement. Thrilling to work 2000
miles QRP on 160 meters. You did all the heavy lifting for
Steve,
RE: CQ hole
>If you left a run spot to go pee, it would be gone within about 1 or 2
minutes
The latest rev of N1MM's Spectrum Display includes a "CQ Freq Search"
enhancement whereby up-to 5 frequencies of sufficient width (based on
mode) and vacancy (one minute) are highlighted. You
This was the first time I made a serious attempt at the ARRL 160m contest.
Usually I will just poke around and hand out mults. Since condx were looking
pretty good, I decided to stay in the chair a bit longer.
I must say I forgot how this contest is really more like SS with some DX thrown
in
Hi,
Amazing experience over the past weekend.
Mostly SWLing because I'm a bit late this season and my 27m Vertical is
still not ready to xmit (no radials...), but managed to put some Beverage's
before the weekend, including 330deg NW direction.
So yesterday, VE6WZ was readable here already at
Certainly the skip has favored Northern paths for the last several days.
We worked three Alaska stations since Friday - NL7S and KL7J on FT8 and KL7SB
on CW in the contest.
With only one CW QSO in KL7KY in 2013 it was an amazing adventure. KL7 was a
new one for Helen!
Hawaii was not that easy
I have my tower on Cayman Brac Shunt fed for both 160 and 80 using separate
coaxes, capacitors and shunt feed wires. Works great, except that I don't like
the way it behaves. It appears to me that when I am on 160 for an extended
length of time that something may be going on with the 80m
Hi Nick
When we worked, your signal was weaker than normal times. But still good to get
you in the log!
Regards,
Mark, K1RX
> On Dec 9, 2019, at 2:09 AM, uy0zg wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> The north and east of Ukraine really worked in the evening W6 / W7 and VE6 +
> KH6 + KL7.
>
>
> Really did
There are a very interesting series of loops and amplifiers coming out of
Cross Country Wireless, in particular the latest uses an aluminium bicycle
wheel rim, note just the rim which can be bought at a modest price. On a
suitable base it is self-supporting and needs to be simply cut with a hack
I have a 300 ft Beverage running E/W which I use for most DX reception.
However for most of its length it does run immediately over a wire mesh
fence about 6 inches below it which makes it lose a lot of its front to back
directivity. For the last few weeks I have also been using a Wellbrook loop
I have always just lived in a "normal" house in a normal street in the city
. . . so never had room for a Beverage. Not even room for a Vertical Tx
antenna, as no space for the radials. (and couldn't go high enough)
Most people are amazed that my Tx antenna is a horizontal Halfwave Dipole,
You were a very good signal here Rick all the time you were in
darkness. Unfortunately you never heard me and I know there were
other callers as well from northern Europe :-)
Super signals from all over NA this past weekend. The band never died
as long as there was darkness over the entire,
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