Re: Topband: Solar Cycle 25 Update - Presented by Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA

2023-11-14 Thread Jim Brown
On 11/14/2023 5:51 PM, Mike Waters wrote: But here am in the hospital room after they put a stent in a coronary artery. You got lucky like I did ten years ago. Started a stress test, almost collapsed before they cranked it up. Found a great surgeon, got a pig valve and 6 bypasses! I could

Re: Topband: TX7L On 160m?

2023-11-14 Thread Wes Stewart via Topband
A search shows spots yesterday on FT8.  I personally haven't heard them on 160. Got them on 21 other slots, including an unbelievable 59+ signal on 10-meter FM. I have not heard anything from 7O. On Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 05:02:53 PM MST, Steve Harrison wrote: Has TX7L even

Re: Topband: Solar Cycle 25 Update - Presented by Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA

2023-11-14 Thread Mike Waters
I'd kind of like a recording too, if one exists. I went to a hospital for a stress test this morning expecting to go right home afterwards. But here am in the hospital room after they put a stent in a coronary artery. :-) 73 Mike W0BTU On Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 7:27 PM Richard (Rick) Karlquist <

Topband: TX7L On 160m?

2023-11-14 Thread Steve Harrison
Has TX7L even been on 160m so far?? Haven't seen any sign of them. They're so strong on 80/40 that they should be easy to hear on 160m. I had to work them again yesterday on 40m because they mistakenly credited me with a 40m phone QSO; I haven't worked HF phone DX since the early '80s, if

Topband: Timor Leste report 2

2023-11-14 Thread Dietmar Kasper
Next Timor Leste report some team members were unhappy with topband results and with continuous bad propagation the pressure to me to accept working FT8 has been getting immense. We had a serious discussion about so I gave up finally and let the daemon out of the box of Pandora. FT mode in

Re: Topband: GM from Timor Leste

2023-11-14 Thread Jim Brown
On 11/14/2023 1:02 PM, n...@comcast.net wrote: I live in a city lot and worked 305 on 160m, starting 2006, and I hear 316 countries, Doug NX4D lives in a 1/5 acre and worked 314 on 160m, starting 2003. We have no beverage antennas! People only see what they want to see! Everyone's antenna

Re: Topband: GM from Timor Leste

2023-11-14 Thread n4is
“ no beverage, no contacts”. I live in a city lot and worked 305 on 160m, starting 2006, and I hear 316 countries, Doug NX4D lives in a 1/5 acre and worked 314 on 160m, starting 2003. We have no beverage antennas! People only see what they want to see! 73's JC N4IS _

Re: Topband: GM from Timor Leste

2023-11-14 Thread Jim Brown
On 11/14/2023 4:52 AM, gudguyham--- via Topband wrote: I totally agree with your friend, “ no beverage, no contacts”. In the words of Garry, NI6T, "any Beverage is better than no Beverage." His run over extremely irregular terrain. So do mine. I found my beverage to be helpful up to 20

Re: Topband: GM from Timor Leste

2023-11-14 Thread Richard Thorne
Dietmar, I've been listening the last few mornings before and after our sunrise here in Amarillo, TX. I heard you  yesterday just before my sunrise.  You were very weak and I didn't bother trying. Then this morning, well before sunrise, your signal was peaking and we made a CW QSO.

Re: Topband: GM from Timor Leste

2023-11-14 Thread gudguyham--- via Topband
Robin, I’ve been a ham for 57 years this year.  When I started out 160 had power limitations but that went away and 160 really became popular.  A few times in my early career I dropped in to listen to 160 and concluded there was nobody on that band.  In a conversation many years into my ham

Topband: 4W8X

2023-11-14 Thread Ron Spencer via Topband
They seem to be hearing NA better today (11/14). And again, great of them to listen for NA. Seems lots of callers aren't hearing them well. Lots calling even after 4w8X asks for a specific call or partial. An example I recall. He's asking for XX and lots of callers with no X in their call

Re: Topband: GM from Timor Leste

2023-11-14 Thread m.r.c.
If Dietmar can not pull your signal out of the noise, nobody can. His S/N threshold performance is somewhere well south of minus 10 dB. I have sat next to him and listened to him work stations I could only just detect. I will never forget him stumbling out of the VP6DX 160 tent after