I have no doubt they will be successful on the lowbands with what should hopefully be an ambient free RF zone- Despite the short windows, and my guess 30M will be their best band, if you want to call that a lowband. I do- The greyline characteristics in crap conditions are well proven. I only say this because I am comparing my experience on Lord Howe in April of 1998 VK9LZ one man DX’pedition. Condx sucked- With K=8, A up to 70+, and SF never broke 70. I worked 30M across every greyline I had during my darkness- 40 was ok, 80 was poor, and I didn’t have a topband antenna. I only had daytime propagation on 17 and 20 meters North to JA, and a number of PAC islands, except one day 17M opened briefly to stateside. 30M was over 50% of my 2,432 QSO’s made in a week operating around 18-20 hours a day/night in a hut. Used a Cushcraft AP8A and no amp. I am always surprised what 30m can do and I hope we see some fast rates on CW excluding the FT8 mess. Won’t be an ATNO for me, but will be interesting to see the topband results- It will certainly contribute to the better understanding TopBand propagation. I get FT-8, I really do- but just another means of taking away time from the pure essence of CW from 160M.
73 Paul N0AH Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 ________________________________ From: Topband <topband-boun...@contesting.com> on behalf of C Allen Baker via Topband <topband@contesting.com> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2018 11:47:02 AM To: topband@contesting.com; Jim Thomson; C Allen Baker Subject: Re: Topband: Baker Island DXpedition on 160 DX -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 6/15/18, C Allen Baker via Topband <topband@contesting.com> wrote: Subject: Re: Topband: Baker Island DXpedition on 160 To: topband@contesting.com, "Jim Thomson" <jim.t...@telus.net> Date: Friday, June 15, 2018, 12:45 PM Maybe CW till band worked dry. Hope so. 73, definitely working all the DC I can hear. Al, W5IZ -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 6/15/18, Jim Thomson <jim.t...@telus.net> wrote: Subject: Topband: Baker Island DXpedition on 160 To: topband@contesting.com Date: Friday, June 15, 2018, 11:47 AM Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:17:43 -0400 From: GEORGE WALLNER <aa...@atlanticbb.net> To: David Cutter <d.cut...@ntlworld.com>, David Cutter via Topband <topband@contesting.com>, "'Roger Kennedy'" <ro...@wessexproductions.co.uk> Subject: Topband: Baker Island DXpedition on 160 >Hello TopBanders, >KH1/KH7Z will be active on 160 from Baker Island from June 27 to July 6 >(note that dates are tentative and may change -- please visit >http://baker2018.net/ for updates).GL and CU, >George, >AA7JV ## How come no FT8 mode on 160 M ? U list FT8 on all other bands, from 80-6m. Jim VE7RF _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband