In Response to post by Roger, G3YRO The morning sunrise peaks are still here in Western US and warrant a good listen when the band is open. The key word here is 'Open". I'm fortunate to have a beacon
Roger, G3YRO has a valid point. 160m night time is always open somewhere, maybe not where we want it. It is unfortunate that modern technology has created a whole class of folks in chat rooms panderi
I've played with parasitic elements in antenna arrays for almost three decades and the current antenna system I have used parasitic elements both director and reflectors. With very careful tuning per
Kees, A 50 ft high vertical with two top hat loading wires each equal length about 67ft will work great with a good ground field. It can easily be fed with a 4-1 toroidal transformer 50-12.5 Ohms. Ab
Guys, I'm confounded by the complexity suggested for all band coverage of 160m "Top Loaded T Antenna". May I make a simple suggestion. A simple T antenna will have a radiation resistance of 10-12 Ohm
Per the following added comments. Me too. Or the inverse as I did, cut my T for the low end of the band. Then three series capacitors with PCB relays to short each individually (none, 1, 2, or 3) yie
The not so Boring Report. Sorry Tree. Boring is actual a suburb of the greater Portland, Gresham area on US 26 on the way to Mt Hood and Bend Oregon. Know it well as the area was stomping ground in m
Here is an audio file as heard from W7RH last night of the EU pileup for VP6D. All I can say is wow! More than 45 years on 160 and never heard anything like it in 7 land. http://w7rh.net/audio_files
It is with great sadness I report another great contester and top band enthusiast has passed. RIP Paul Bittner, W0AIH -- W7RH DM35OS It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded
FWIW, My 2cents. The continuing threads about DXCC rules bother me. At what point does a rule need to be changed? Regarding remote receive I suppose I accept a private remote with say 10km radius. Gr
All, As Tree noted I've been able to get into Eastern Central and Norther Europe this past week. Truly a very rare case from this far south. The northern guys have an hour more darkness than at my la
All, My friend Steve, VE6WZ has a very wonderful remote station with regards to signals to the distant and populated centers. His RX and TX antennas sit on a hill with a gentle slope, leveling out to
All, Out West conditions to EU were good before Sunset but Spotty. SM5EDX had a good signal at Sunset. LY7Z and RA4LW at times were booming. Then the band petered out with lots of QRN from Summer lik
All, Two cents worth of comments on thread. The SAL, K9AY and Waller Flags all work well and have their limitations. They do help the city folk improve the ability to receive. The WF works great if y
Roger and group, It's not your imagination, activity on CW has been very low. Add to that propagation has been absolutely horrid all season from a left coast perspective. While some northern folks ha
Greetings All, Spotty openings to Europe from the SW with one surprise contact LZ2WO just before sunset. Otherwise 1 G4, and a few EA stations. Also Q5 at Sunset was IK2CLB with no QSO. After 0300 no
Group, Saturday evening conditions redeemed themselves as if they knew they were getting bad mouthed by me. Eastern Europe made it out west starting around 0400 moving west until EU sunrise 0800 when
Hello All, I'm not so sure about the title but it was interesting and fun none the less to chase 7P8LB on top Band. I made attempts all three evenings but failed to garnish a contact. Each night I co
Bob, N6RK and AA7JV/C6AGU are both on the right track. I lean with adding more radials and feeding with a 12.5Ohm Un-UN. In that respect you can add relay taps on the loading coil and go entire band
Greetings all, Never say never. The band is never dead. It just may not be open to where you want it to be. Monday morning march 25th in Arizona I called CQ on CW for almost an hour with no takers. (