Re: Topband: Pre-Stew/LBJ in VK6

2023-10-27 Thread Chris G3SVL
On 25/10/2023 09:35, Jim Brown wrote: I learned a lot from George Wallner, AA7JV, a brilliant engineer and veteran of a dozen or so expeditions to rare entities, and for which he mounted a very effective Topband presence. At Visalia in 2019 (and a few weeks later at Dayton), he observed that

Re: Topband: Pre-Stew/LBJ in VK6

2023-10-25 Thread Tree
Thanks for posting your observations Phil. I was very surprised at how good your signal was when you called me. It was at 1049 UTC - almost four hours before my sunrise. Often, I hear the East Coast working VK's and I can't hear them until much closer to my sunrise. One of the other surprising

Re: Topband: Pre-Stew/LBJ in VK6

2023-10-25 Thread Jim Brown
On 10/25/2023 12:27 AM, Phil Hartwell via Topband wrote: It's uncanny how often the various Stew events coincide with poor propagation and/or severe QRN. I learned a lot from George Wallner, AA7JV, a brilliant engineer and veteran of a dozen or so expeditions to rare entities, and for which

Topband: Pre-Stew/LBJ in VK6

2023-10-25 Thread Phil Hartwell via Topband
G'day folks, It's uncanny how often the various Stew events coincide with poor propagation and/or severe QRN. Propagation between VK6 and stateside has been very good recently, with the exception of last weekend, when it was pretty dismal. Throw in the first significant thunderstorm activity