Re: Topband: Some photos and video from our KH6AQ portable operation in the December Stew Perry TBDC

2024-01-01 Thread W7TMT - Patrick
You guys rocked! S9 up to +20 here in the Seattle area for hours. Only signal from KH6/7 like that, for that long, came from the legendary Jack Wheeler, KH6CC. Big shoes to fill. I'm guessing your toes should be feeling a little bit pinched by now. Great job! Looking for you in the CQ WW

Re: Topband: Some photos and video from our KH6AQ portable operation in the December Stew Perry TBDC

2024-01-01 Thread Tree
Great writeup and pictures/video Rob. Your signal the second morning was very strong here. Tree N6TR / K7RAT On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 4:37 PM Rob Van Geen wrote: > Dave and I (Rob, NH6V) have been enjoying experimenting with antenna setups > on the east coast of the "Big Island" of Hawai'i in

Topband: Some photos and video from our KH6AQ portable operation in the December Stew Perry TBDC

2024-01-01 Thread Rob Van Geen
Dave and I (Rob, NH6V) have been enjoying experimenting with antenna setups on the east coast of the "Big Island" of Hawai'i in several of the 160 contests since December 2022. We run 1500W to a full-size 1/4λ wire sloping ~50° up to the top of a 150' Cook pine tree across the road from the

Topband: CT9ABO please send in your log!

2024-01-01 Thread Michael Rutkaus
Best 160m DX last night on Stew Perry Contest: CT9ABO Bearing 45.1° NE (from K4QET) Distance 4574.1 mi (7361.3 km) Madeira Island in N. Atlantic off of Morocco! 73 Mike On Mon, Jan 1, 2024, 12:01 PM wrote: > Send Topband mailing list submissions to > topband@contesting.com > > To

Topband: Big Stew Perry 2023

2024-01-01 Thread Roger Kennedy
Well we had big storms again here in Britain a week ago . . . and the 10ft tall remains of a tree that I had a big pole lashed to (to hold the far end of my Dipole) was snapped off at the base ! So after the holiday I ordered a big angle iron . . . got it delivered . . . painted it with

Topband: Big Stew Perry 2023

2024-01-01 Thread uy0zg via Topband
I posted two audio recordings on the site: http://www.topband.in.ua/2024/01/01/big-stew-perry-2023-uy0zg-qsos-w2xl-k9om/ Listening to DX on 160 is comparable to listening to good music. FT lovers are depriving themselves of such pleasure. They look at the computer monitor and instead of

Re: Topband: 2023 DECEMBER STEW

2024-01-01 Thread uy0zg via Topband
Sorry, correction Couldn't get through to three people - N3DXX, K5KG, K3CCR. But it was still nice to listen to them. --- Nick, UY0ZG http://www.topband.in.ua uy0zg via Topband писал(а) 2024-01-01 13:14: Hi Probably the best result in Europe is SK3W:

Topband: 2023 DECEMBER STEW

2024-01-01 Thread uy0zg via Topband
Hi Probably the best result in Europe is SK3W: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Tof2rGSpyHg https://www.kkn.net/stew/STEWSCR.TXT In my log, the best ones from the US are MA operators. Five stations! The conditions are weak, but very interesting. Many from the US have excellent RX.

Topband: Big Stew - A Wipe-out Down-Under

2024-01-01 Thread Phil Hartwell via Topband
Greetings Topbanders, I'm sorry to say the Stew was just about a non-event in this part of the world. The only stateside station I heard/worked was Tree, K7RAT, within the 1st hour, when he peaked up at his SR. The following evening (VK6 time), I was set and ready to go, about 1/2 hour before