You did not say exactly how many years ago you worked Jacky on 160. In
1999, after a DXpedition to 3B9 in which Jacky was a participant, the
homeward-bound DXpeditioners (including myself) were at Jacky's house in
Mauritius, standing on his roof and enjoying a beer. Jacky pointed to
the house and lot next door and related how, before the lot was
developed, he had used it for 160m. I don't think he has replaced that
long-last antenna. I, already a rabid topbander, was of course
disappointed by that turn of events.
As 3B9R, we had erected a Titanex with 60 radials on a soccer pitch and
had a kW. We worked lots of Europe, but only a handful of NA stations on
the east coast, on one evening. No west coast at all.
Garry, NI6T
On 9/9/2013 6:39 PM, Charlie Cunningham wrote:
Wow! That's a good one!! I worked Jacky, 3B8CF many years ago on 160, but
never 3B9! Lowest bands I've ever worked 3B9 were 40 and 30 m. I worked
Jacky just before sunset here in Raleigh NC! Worked him with the FT-757 GX
that I had back then, with a GG 4-400A afterburner doing the best it could -
about 450 W to my inverted L with the submerged radials in the lake! :-)
Charlie, K4OTV
-----Original Message-----
From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mike
Waters
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 9:30 PM
To: topband
Subject: Topband: 3B9EME
3B9EME has been calling CQ (listening up ~1) on 1822 for over an hour. But
they can't seem to hear very well.
At one time, they were S7 here in SW Missouri. Someone tell them to put up
a Beverage antenna. :-)
73, Mike
www.w0btu.com
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