If you go back to the 60's, when hardy souls worked topband dxcc with 40 watts, we can't really say we had "A" dx window. In fact, we had a system of enforced split operation, which had SEVERAL dx wi
"If you go back to the 60's, when hardy souls worked topband dxcc with 40 watts,....." == Topband DXCC #1 was issued to W1BB in November 1976 after he had over 40 years pursuing it. With today's mode
Jim, You are correct ... however, we can not protect any narrowband mode CW, PSK or another yet to be discovered mode from the wideband "I don't care ... I'll operate any place my license allows" at
antennas, some of the season. It isn't only because stations are bigger and technology better, but because more countries are active. When Stew was working DXCC, he had to wait months or years for a
Yes. For example, LY3UM worked 100 DXCC entities for 10 months (2002-2003 years). Alex has 27m GP+top load, a few Beverages (500m) and 1.5 kW. 73 de DL2KQ ____________________________________________
How about one contest weekend? We have done 5 band DXCC 160 through 15 m in 1 weekend... 73 John, ON4UN 40 _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com
superstations on the band can probably do it in one season. One weekend is more like it. If I'm not mistaken, someone has already done this. When K1ZM set the current CQ WW USA record in 1995, he had
At 3B9C it took us about 15 days to work 86 countries on 160m. I suspect a motivated topband team on a major DXpedition could work 100 countries if they were lucky with propagation and local receivin
All true. I'm considering a serious psk31 topband effort next season. Suburban lot. Wire antennas in trees. Inv L, or carolina windom @ 75'(low). As much power as I can cleanly generate from a pw-1.
hi, This year it took almost exactly two months to work 100 countries on top band from my very moderate station (Jan- Feb 2004), today the count is around 110. Alan G3ZES works every year over 150 co