Re: Topband: Great moments in Top Band History - 7P8LB

2019-04-28 Thread Cecil
DXers shouldn’t be allowed to take the blue pills...don’t mix well with large amounts of RF. 😜 Cecil K5DL Sent from my iPad > On Mar 16, 2019, at 12:05 PM, w...@w5zn.org wrote: > > As one of the very fortunate ones to make it through the pileup last night, > the excitement didn't permit me to

Re: Topband: Great moments in Top Band History - 7P8LB

2019-03-17 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
On 3/17/2019 4:16 PM, cqtestk4xs--- via Topband wrote: Don't feel too badly.  7P8 is about as far away as you can get from KH6. Because of antipodal focusing, farther away isn't necessarily more difficult. 73 Rick N6RK _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topb

Re: Topband: Great moments in Top Band History - 7P8LB

2019-03-17 Thread cqtestk4xs--- via Topband
ssage- From: CT1EKD To: topband Sent: Sun, Mar 17, 2019 10:13 pm Subject: Re: Topband: Great moments in Top Band History - 7P8LB I'm Very sad about this. I tryed several nights but  We Never have a change to make it, because  of the "Only JA or Only NA" . We at S-West Eu

Re: Topband: Great moments in Top Band History - 7P8LB

2019-03-17 Thread W7RH
Hello All, I'm not so sure about the title but it was interesting and fun none the less to chase 7P8LB on top Band. I made attempts all three evenings but failed to garnish a contact. Each night I could hear them up two hours before their sunrise. Then, near the magical time 03:45 -04:15 UTC t

Re: Topband: Great moments in Top Band History - 7P8LB

2019-03-17 Thread CT1EKD
I'm Very sad about this. I tryed several nights but We Never have a change to make it, because of the "Only JA or Only NA" . We at S-West Europe have a diferent propagation from the Central-Europe... For what I can see ONLY 1 CT station is on the log on 160m... better days will come Pedro -

Re: Topband: Great moments in Top Band History - 7P8LB

2019-03-16 Thread Wes
Congratulations to those who made a QSO.  I was away, and probably wouldn't be in the hunt anyway with my modest station. But I'm troubled by this: On 3/16/2019 7:44 AM, Tree wrote: the first station made it into the log - although the call was busted by one letter. Typically - this is good e

Re: Topband: Great moments in Top Band History - 7P8LB

2019-03-16 Thread w5zn
As one of the very fortunate ones to make it through the pileup last night, the excitement didn't permit me to put it back in my pants until this morning Sorry if that offends some of you, I just couldn't resist that opening! :-))) 73 Joel W5ZN On 2019-03-16 08:44, Tree wrot

Re: Topband: Great moments in Top Band History - 7P8LB

2019-03-16 Thread uy0zg
e. 73. . . Dave, W0FLS -Original Message- From: Tree Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2019 9:44 AM To: 160 Subject: Topband: Great moments in Top Band History - 7P8LB Last night - 1824.5 kHz - 7P8LB was calling CQ for perhaps 30 minutes - working nobody. This was their last sunrise before taking

Re: Topband: Great moments in Top Band History - 7P8LB

2019-03-16 Thread daraymond
ments in Top Band History - 7P8LB Last night - 1824.5 kHz - 7P8LB was calling CQ for perhaps 30 minutes - working nobody. This was their last sunrise before taking down their antennas. The previous night was disappointing and there were so many people in North America wanting to work them. The to

Re: Topband: Great moments in Top Band History - 7P8LB

2019-03-16 Thread David Olean
Hello Tree Very fine writeup of the evening.  I heard 7P8LB all night in varying stages of copyability. At no time did I hear any evidence that I was being heard. I suspect that the spotlight effect did not favor the northeast and eastern Canada.  Most times, 7P peaked at about S-3 with an oc

Topband: Great moments in Top Band History - 7P8LB

2019-03-16 Thread Tree
Last night - 1824.5 kHz - 7P8LB was calling CQ for perhaps 30 minutes - working nobody. This was their last sunrise before taking down their antennas. The previous night was disappointing and there were so many people in North America wanting to work them. The topband chat room was buzzing in an