I have no doubt they will be successful on the lowbands with what should
hopefully be an ambient free RF zone- Despite the short windows, and my guess
30M will be their best band, if you want to call that a lowband. I do- The
greyline characteristics in crap conditions are well proven. I only say this
because I am comparing my experience on Lord Howe in April of 1998 VK9LZ one
man DX’pedition. Condx sucked- With K=8, A up to 70+, and SF never broke 70. I
worked 30M across every greyline I had during my darkness- 40 was ok, 80 was
poor, and I didn’t have a topband antenna. I only had daytime propagation on 17
and 20 meters North to JA, and a number of PAC islands, except one day 17M
opened briefly to stateside. 30M was over 50% of my 2,432 QSO’s made in a week
operating around 18-20 hours a day/night in a hut. Used a Cushcraft AP8A and no
amp. I am always surprised what 30m can do and I hope we see some fast rates
on CW excluding the FT8 mess. Won’t be an ATNO for me, but will be interesting
to see the topband results- It will certainly contribute to the better
understanding TopBand propagation. I get FT-8, I really do- but just another
means of taking away time from the pure essence of CW from 160M.
73 Paul N0AH
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From: Topband <topband-bounces@contesting.com> on behalf of C Allen Baker via
Topband <topband@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2018 11:47:02 AM
To: topband@contesting.com; Jim Thomson; C Allen Baker
Subject: Re: Topband: Baker Island DXpedition on 160
DX
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On Fri, 6/15/18, C Allen Baker via Topband <topband@contesting.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: Topband: Baker Island DXpedition on 160
To: topband@contesting.com, "Jim Thomson" <jim.thom@telus.net>
Date: Friday, June 15, 2018, 12:45 PM
Maybe CW till band worked dry. Hope
so.
73, definitely working all the DC I can
hear.
Al, W5IZ
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On Fri, 6/15/18, Jim Thomson <jim.thom@telus.net>
wrote:
Subject: Topband: Baker Island
DXpedition on 160
To: topband@contesting.com
Date: Friday, June 15, 2018, 11:47 AM
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:17:43 -0400
From: GEORGE WALLNER <aa7jv@atlanticbb.net>
To: David Cutter <d.cutter@ntlworld.com>,
David Cutter via Topband
<topband@contesting.com>,
"'Roger Kennedy'"
<roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Subject: Topband: Baker Island
DXpedition on 160
>Hello TopBanders,
>KH1/KH7Z will be active on 160
from
Baker Island from June 27 to July 6
>(note that dates are tentative
and
may change -- please visit
>http://baker2018.net/ for updates).GL
and
CU,
>George,
>AA7JV
## How come no FT8
mode on 160 M ? U list FT8 on
all other bands,
from 80-6m.
Jim VE7RF
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