Team members leave Saturday. 73,Ed W0YK -------- Original message --------From: Rob Atkinson <ranchoro...@gmail.com> Date: 6/13/18 9:55 AM (GMT-08:00) To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Topband: Baker Island DXpedition on 160 I respectfully suggest the Baker Is. dxpedition be postponed for a few years until band condx improve. It makes no sense to me to mount this costly undertaking to a limited access location when propagation is in the toilet. If USFWS is managing access, they've lately shown that they'll only approve trips to islands under their custodianship every 10 years or so. If this is the case with Baker Is., then this trip will make another one in a few years impossible.
Another point I'd like to make is that a later trip might afford a chance to renegotiate what I consider a ridiculous antenna limit, which seems to be based on a ridiculous antenna design, namely the "43 foot all-band vertical." Such a height with top loading might work okay on 80 meters but on 160 its efficiency will be poor. 73 Rob K5UJ _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
