Just dabbled in the WPX contest looking for Asian stations on 10m, and worked a phenominal ( for me) 13 of them! The big question is: Are there any being heard on Top Band these days? Send Topband ma
The last, in fact the ONLY, BY station I have ever heard (and worked) on 160 meters was BD4WN in December 2017. 73 Joel W5ZN Just dabbled in the WPX contest looking for Asian stations on 10m, and wor
In the past year Ive seen my 10-15-20m Chinese qso totals skyrocket from essentially zero to 13 in last weekends WPX. Was hoping some of those guys might discover 160, and that the good success on 10
Author: Wes Stewart via Topband <topband@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 17:59:32 +0000 (UTC)
The last one I confirmed was BG6SNJ 01-29-2022. But with the S9+20 powerline noise that the power company has confirmed but not fixed for months, who knows what I've been missing. Wes N7WS The big
Same here Joel, but March 2020 right b4 the Covid shut down. FT8 & LoTW NE0DX in NE Jeff Reynolds 73 Joel W5ZN Just dabbled in the WPX contest looking for Asian stations on 10m, and worked a phenomin
Yes, the Chinese have really discovered ham radio in the last decade. They were everywhere in CQWW CW. I have topband QSOs with BY stations as follows: BA4TB - 2009 BH4IGO - 2017 BD4WN - 2019 73. .
Brutal QRN! Been lucky here in the country, have only had rare occasions of heavy QRN. When I call the utility they come out within a few weeks and I help them track it down. Usually an arcing lightn
And beginning 6-8 years ago, they figured out that they had to set up stations where the noise was low enough that they could hear stations calling them. When they first appeared, the noise made them
And beginning 6-8 years ago, they figured out that they had to set up stations where the noise was low enough that they could hear stations calling them. When they first appeared, the noise made them
When we tried operating in 160 meter contests from W6UE in Pasadena, it was amusing to see the packet spots complaining about how deaf we were. We were running a full size flat-top dipole at 90 feet.
I just occurred to me that my description of the receive situation at W6UE is backwards. The 160 meter flat top dipole improved the 80 meter receive noise floor from really deaf to pretty deaf. On 16
At N6RO's superstation (among other things, it was the antenna labo of ARRL Antenna Book Editor N6BV, who lives 100 miles away in the city of San Francisco), Ken patches lots of antennas to his opera
In the case of that 160 meter dipole it was almost always better as a receive antenna for 80 meters. It was better at rejecting ferocious local QRN than the 80 meter inverted-V. Absolute signal level
On 4/3/2024 7:57 AM, Michael Tope wrote: In the case of that 160 meter dipole it was almost always better as a receive antenna for 80 meters. It was better at rejecting ferocious local QRN than the 8