I had a similar experience to Ed, W0SD. Having had absolutely zero copy on
FT5ZM on 160 prior to today on my half-sloper, I had given up hope of
hearing them on 160, let alone actually work them.
Then, to my surprise, this morning they were perfect copy here in Western
Washington for almost 2 hours. They were in the log at 1454z, and actually
peaked at an honest s-9 about 15 minutes later.
You just never know what the propagation gods will bring you on Top Band.
73,
Jim W1YY
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl
Sent: Tuesday, February 4, 2014 8:13 AM
To: Ed Gray W0SD ; topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: FT5ZM from South Dakota
Congratulations, sounds like another case of high angle N-S propagation
Carl
KM1H
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From: "Ed Gray W0SD" <w0sd@triotel.net>
To: <topband@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2014 8:00 PM
Subject: Topband: FT5ZM from South Dakota
All I can say is to not give up. I have heard "ZERO" from FT5ZM on 160
meters up until tonight and have been there every morning and night since
they got there. Tonight I heard them for 28 minutes and for about 14
minutes about S-5-6 with a K3. I would say a couple of S-units above the
noise. That reading was with the pre-amp off on the K3. They have been
good on 80 meters which made it so frustrating I can not hear anything on
160M.
Tonight I could hear them best on my 190 foot high drooping dipole, next
on my NE beverage and last on the vertical but of course the vertical had
more QRN. I worked them using the vertical and listening on the NE
beverage because at that time I had not figured out I could hear him the
best on the high dipole.
Obviously I was very excited and started calling as soon as I could copy
calls. Anyway I won't go into the details of working him but just wanted
to encourage people to hang in there. He has been coming in from the north
according to others and tonight my NE beverage was the best beverage of
the 4 I have so they were coming from the north. The difference for me
appears to be the polar absorption on the path from here.
Ed W0SD
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