Hi Everyone, There are good antennas and everything in between. But the big variable is propagation. I have been on this band for about 18 or 20 years. I can not tell you how many hours I have waited for the deep QSB fades to cease just to work a KP2 from AZ to get another mult. The bottom line is no matter what you have as an antenna, the propagation rules..... GL & 73 Hardy N7RT
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Harden" <jh...@bellsouth.net> To: <topband@contesting.com> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 4:14 PM Subject: Re: Topband: Topband Digest, Vol 107, Issue 28 > On 11/20/2011 5:58 PM, gedk...@aol.com wrote: >> Some people would rather play with antennas than get on the air, if >> that's >> their thing go for it. ME I would rather get on the air and work >> stations. >> I just let my auto tuner make the rig happy losses on 160 are not that >> high. >> But then I remember a time when I needed a station on 24 Mhz so I made up >> a >> Dipole on the shack floor and climbed up to the 60 ft level of my tower >> in >> a snow storm and installed it as a sloped dipole. " worked him on the >> first call" I couldn't believe it !! >> ED K8OT >> >> _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK