I lived in BY back in 1999 and 2000 and put BY1QH on 160 even before
that time,
Problem is not the stations or antennas, its the noise, hardly any BY
live in the
country, they are mostly all stuck in town and the noise is something
you have
never heard the likes of.
I operated weeks on end
I agree to a certain extent that there has been a bit less CW activity.
I hope at some point the novelty of FT8 wears off, but I won't take that
away from the guys having fun. Yawn. Early the second week of September
and the last two evenings have seen a burst of activity and quite good
Last night's conditions on the band were quite good. It was quiet this
end and I could hear many (US) stations calling the contest stations
here, and I worked a few myself. Unfortunately, I couldn't stick at it
as I have a very hard couple of days work. Hopefully conditions
continue, although
Hi Roger and all!
160 is or was in the middle of the MF ship to shore short distance
communication - long before SAT, VHF and GSM came into use.
I used to work in the Telecom sector and brought along a SW transceiver,
hooked it up to one of those antennas.
I was amazed as I worked a number of
Well first of all, it has never been my intention to upset or annoy anyone
with my posts on here . . . all I have ever tried to do is encourage more
people to come on Top Band on CW . . . to tell people that there ARE
stations on to work, and that DX conditions are often good, even if there is
Hi Joe,
I've heard you working the DXgood show with the 100w too. I think our
inverted L's are about the same height. With the four CP wires, I didn't
expect this one to perform so well...thought a radial system would be better,
and it may be, but I am happy with its performance. I have
Hi Bill,
Sounds like you and I are both having lots of fun on 160 meters with very
modest setups ! I have also worked many VK's and a ZL with 100 watts the past
two weeks as well as hearing many JA's. I have been working some EU in the
evenings.
I'm just getting my 160 meter antenna up
GM All,
I usually sit on the side line and read the postings, but wanted to throw in my
2 cents worth on
this mornings condx. I thought the band would be noisy due to the remnants of
the storm west
of NC, but the band was quiet. I also was able to work a few VK's...four to be
exact. The
Last nite (Oct 9th) seemed excellent condx to EU. Worked several stations and
even a couple with just 100W. this morning the OC contest was going so more
activity than usual. Worked 8 VK and 1 KH6. More in one morning than any other
time. In fact, more in one morning than in many years!
