Dear friends, I need your advise: I found a very high tower with 100m high. I need to fix a very effective antenna on 160m band. What kind of antenna will be better for contesting? 73! Mamuka4L2M On Monday, January 9, 2023, 09:00:45 PM GMT+4, <topband-requ...@contesting.com> wrote: Send Topband mailing list submissions to topband@contesting.com
To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to topband-requ...@contesting.com You can reach the person managing the list at topband-ow...@contesting.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Topband digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: spot (Tree) 2. Re: Conditions Improving? (k...@kq2m.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 07:50:51 -0800 From: Tree <t...@kkn.net> To: STEVE MCDONALD <ve...@shaw.ca> Cc: Steve London <n2ica...@gmail.com>, Paul Mcl <paul....@gmail.com>, Topband <topband@contesting.com> Subject: Re: Topband: spot Message-ID: <cakf9hhzrm4o9u8q5vr47ktlzadgmslesm7kjoobsqjmav2i...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" I used to live near Granada Hills - not near an ocean. I guess he could have a remote station somewhere - but again, 1:30 PM in SoCal is a no go. I can't imagine where someone would have a big rhombic near an ocean in SoCal with much of an advantage towards Europe. Reminds me of a story - back when W6RW was active on the band. This is probably around 1975 or so. The Southern California DX Club used to have quite a bit of activity on 2 meter FM - perhaps a repeater, I forget. Someone started bootlegging European calls around noon local time and W6RW was buying it. He had a lot of fun talking about this rare opening at noon. I think eventually, he was convinced someone was pulling his chain and he stopped. Tree N6TR On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 6:48 AM STEVE MCDONALD <ve...@shaw.ca> wrote: > Highly unlikely at 1:30 in the afternoon in California. > > > > 160m on 24Nov22 @ 2130Z > > > > > I emailed to ask if he was transmitting from CA per his QRZ.com details > and > > he confirmed that was correct and he was using a large rhombic by the > > ocean. Both contacts are confirmed in LoTw as California. > > > > Regards > > > > Paul MM0ZBH > > > > On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 at 23:31, <ke9et...@charter.net> wrote: > > > > > Interesting spot......? 2324Z 1.832.? TN8K DL3DXX wkd > > > NM6V,W6AEA,WB6CJT big remo Republic of the Congo (TN) > > > > > > _________________ > > > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > > > Reflector > > > > > _________________ > > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > > Reflector > > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > > -- > WEB - "The VE7SL Radio Notebook": http://qsl.net/ve7sl/ > > VE7SL BLOG - "Homebrewing and Operating Adventures From 2200m to > Nanowaves": > http://ve7sl.blogspot.ca/ > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2023 10:50:01 -0600 From: k...@kq2m.com To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: Conditions Improving? Message-ID: <c70d5148f19ee963216041866ff65...@kq2m.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Good cndx no surprise - the K index dropped to 0 for a few hours and then stayed at k=1. TN8K was audible here for several hours in and out, with long and deep fades but peaking briefly ~ 569, and definitely favoring stations in the Mid-western, Western and Southern US. I'm using an Inv L with 3 elevated radials so signal strengths were certainly better at the serious 160 stations. I also heard a lot of EU stations work TN8K most of which were < 559. Maybe 160 ops should complain about cndx more often? LOL! 73 Bob, KQ2M On 2023-01-09 08:03, Roger Kennedy wrote: > Ironic that after complaining how poor DX Propagation has been for the > past > few weeks, they were quite reasonable from around 0300Z last night . . > . ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband ------------------------------ End of Topband Digest, Vol 241, Issue 13 **************************************** _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector