The YX0 was on CW last night - 1841 kHz. They seemed to be hearing reasonably well and worked a number of west coast stations around 0430 - 0500z. Hopefully, they will continue putting time in on 160
Later in the evening, they were operating SSB - initially on 1842.8 simplex and then listening up 5. Lots of QSB and QRN - but a number of west coast stations were able to get into the log after some
If you are lucky - you can work a few VKs and maybe a KH6 at the start. Hardly ever any JAs on for this contest on topband. One year, I worked an FK! During the evening, you can work some VEs and Ws
The preliminary scores for the 2005 Stew Perry contest may be viewed here: http://web.jzap.com/k7rat/stew-2005.txt (Wouldn't the world be a better place if we didn't have to say "WWW" so often and co
Hello from Boring, Oregon. The band has been showing early signs of life and the following DX stations have been worked so far: 05-Sep ZS6WN 09-Sep DF2PY 12-Sep GM3POI 15-Sep GM3POI 16-Sep SM5EDX DF2
Hi Bob. DF2PY hangs our on 1834.5. ZS6WN seems to like 1825.5 or so. HK3BVD has been hanging out on 1833.5. I worked the VKs and ZLs when I was CQing - on 1823.5 and then 1821. Hope that helps - and
I probably could have done "HAC" (heard all continents) last night without much trouble (other than the trouble of waking up at 3 AM to hear VK and JA). EA3JE was hoding court. For those of you who d
While I don't have terrain quite that steep - I do have some beverages going along the sides of a prety steep ravine. They go down perhaps 100 feet over a distance of about 500 feet - with one end es
As Wolf indicated - conditions were on the good side last night for us in the Pacific Northwest. A handful of European stations made it in the log, along with ZP6CW and I am pretty sure I heard ZS1JX
I forgot to mention that stations just 200 km or so north of me seem to be hearing Europe much better than I am. So - I would imagine another 1000 km or so to get down to your QTH has a huge impact.
Not to mention the cost of the wire, which is about 3X what it was a few years ago. Tree _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com http://lists.cont
John of course has done this the wrong way. Most of us add radials to an existing vertical radiator. Whenever John gets beat out in a pileup, he adds radials to a NEW vertical radiator. He ended up w
WS6X wonders: Nope - there were a handful of entries in this category - and at least 3 of the scores were pretty close to yours. Just don't drink any of it during the contest. Tree PS: I guess I shou
Some of you are sick and tired of hearing about my new beverages. Well, it gets worse, I put up an even newer beverage for Europe. My first attempt ended up with something not quite the direction I w
One thing I have noticed over the past couple of years is that sometimes the band will be open just around sunset, but as things go on into the evening, the band goes very flat. I often wonder if thi
The band came alive last night - and many people showed up to the party. The evening got off to a quick start with SM7BIC in the log at 0151Z - with plenty of light in the sky - but just after sunset
Was hopeful of another good night - as I was hearing RA4LW around sunset - but his signal never came up very much and after I got some "AGN"s from him, I think he threw in the towel due to a high noi
I don't think it is a major issue for most of "us" topband DXers to answer a stateside caller who needs us for a new state or something. Just don't be offended if they come back to a DX station inste
The 2005 Stew Perry results are now posted on the Stew Perry web page: http://web.jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html The next running is 1500Z December 30th to 1500Z December 31st, 2006. 73 Tree N6TR tree@kkn.
Last night was one of those red letter nights where the band was full of European signals. I heard over 25 European calls - many of them calling XF4DL (OM3PC, OK7XX, OM5RW and others). The band was o