Hi Gang,
In late June my sunrise is 02:44 UTC, sunset is 18:35 UTC. It will be
impossible from Europe not only on 160, but also 80 and even 40. Mayb
20/17 for "the nice QSL"...
But I am happy you are going to have fun.
73 Steve HA0DU
2018.06.13. 21:26 keltezéssel, GEORGE WALLNER írta:
Rob,
You are right about the timing not being good, but it is way too late
now to postpone the operation. Most of us are already in the Pacific
or on a plane, the boat is being loaded, etc., etc.
This is the time we could get and these are the limitations we must
live with. The circumstances at the FWS were conducive to issuing a
permit this year. There was no guarantee that those circumstances
would remain the same in the future. Please remember that, for Navassa
we had to wait 18 years for the official "stars to line up". Also,
fewer sunspots are supposed to be good for TB conditions.
As for antennas, of course taller would be better, but...we got the
permit by agreeing, not arguing.
We have a new 160 m antenna design that I have been testing from
C6AGU. With the help of a salt-water "ground" it will work OK. (NEC
indicates a gain of 6 dBi.)
73 and CU,
George
On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 11:55:10 -0500
Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo@gmail.com> wrote:
I respectfully suggest the Baker Is. dxpedition be postponed for a few
years until band condx improve. It makes no sense to me to mount this
costly undertaking to a limited access location when propagation is in
the toilet. If USFWS is managing access, they've lately shown that
they'll only approve trips to islands under their custodianship every
10 years or so. If this is the case with Baker Is., then this trip
will make another one in a few years impossible.
Another point I'd like to make is that a later trip might afford a
chance to renegotiate what I consider a ridiculous antenna limit,
which seems to be based on a ridiculous antenna design, namely the "43
foot all-band vertical." Such a height with top loading might work
okay on 80 meters but on 160 its efficiency will be poor.
73
Rob
K5UJ
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