Hi Miriam (and Jeff) Congratulations on your mini-DXpedition to Zone 2 - and it is good to see someone is thinking of us in the Asia/Indian Ocean/Pacific area. In common with most topbanders any in t
G'day As Mike VE9AA has indicated there have been several excellent Zone 2 operations in the past from the Point Amour lighthouse in Cape where the operators have had a good 160m setup. Unfortunately
Hi Peter (and the reflector) As George AA7JV/C6AGU says: 'It depends on a lot of things: ground characteristics, number of radials, height of radials and the overall height available.' I'd add your g
Gday all Some food for thought. Like Roger G3YRO and others who were teenage UK radio amateurs in the 1960s/1970s I grew up radio-wise on 160m. In those days, the holy grail was to work across the At
Hi Roger These days I usually only get on 160m for the various Stew Perry TBDCs. They are still fun but my internal time clock has changed and no longer enjoy getting up regularly at sunrise to work
Gday It was great fun to do the Low Band Jack over the weekend. Conditions were very spotty/spotlighty, typical from here at this point in the solar cycle. Only 15 QSOs in the log, with two Aussies (
Gday Been leaving 160m mostly here to Kev VK6LW and Phil VK6GX, while I operate on VHF, as Phil calls 10m. However, I try not too miss a Stew Perry and the fall LBJ is normally an excellent one here
Hello Lew (and Tree) It is good to see your dainty fingers back on the keyboard, spruiking the Stew Perry TBDC as only you can. Tree does his best but he lacks your raconteur spirit. It is fitting he
Happy New Year topbanders! As my cobber Phil VK6GX so aptly put it the Big Stew was a wipe-out down under. To continue to look at it in surfing parlance, it could be said that the propagation surf ne
Gday As a 160m DXer for almost 30 years from VK6 (238 countries worked and 39 zones on CW/SSB) and with absolutely no interest whatsoever in using computer-decoded modes, I have recently come to term