Topband: Inverted L Question

2023-12-21 Thread Paul Dulaff via Topband
Steve Ran a basic EZNEC model with no tower present for your 80 ft X 45 ft inverted L at 1.825 Mhz. The base impedance for this is 28.5 - j 130 ohms.  The get rid of the reactance I extended the top wire an additional 20 ft so 80 X 65 ft and base impedance is 37.2 + j0. The tower is definitel

Re: Topband: Timor Leste report #8

2023-11-22 Thread Paul Dulaff via Topband
Hi Dietmar Was able to make a CW contact with ZL1AZ at his SS,  0715 UTC Thursday. I am in Northern New Jersey so an 8900 mile 2 way QSO to New Zealand. The propagation is there. Just need to get thru the noise (basically). I have a strong bias toward CW and only resort to FT8 when the DX stat

Re: Topband: H44WA 22-Nov

2023-11-22 Thread Paul Dulaff via Topband
Hi Brian Again thanks for getting on 160 as there is propagation to be had. I was able to work ZL1AZ (CW) at his SS last night, 0715 UTC. He was strong here in NNJ (east coast).  I see your SS is about 0722 UTC so will start listening 30 minutes before. 73 Paul - W2NMI On 11/22/2023 1:52

Re: Topband: George in KH8 Land

2023-11-09 Thread Paul Dulaff via Topband
So far yesterday (Wednesday) morning was the best I heard George for his KH8 run here in Northern New Jersey. Did hear him very light this morning also but could not copy clean. When he went to 80 meters at 12:00 UTC he was stronger for me and could copy him fairly well. Made a few call attempt