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Subject: | Topband: First west coast 03/04 |
From: | Bill Tippett <btippett@alum.mit.edu> |
Date: | Sun, 12 Oct 2003 09:14:40 -0400 |
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Very good conditions here on the East Coast also! I was only QRV from about 00-02 but there was a lot of activity including some Russians I had not heard before (e.g. RZ6ASO). Got the following E-mail from EI3GZ and note his antenna! Notes like this are what make Topband so special IMHO.
<picture removed - whip against side of his house> The antenna here is a Helical mode whip which i scaled up from a 80 meter design, it is 15 feet long fed against 3 copper wires of 15 feet each.I have enclosed a picture of it . All the best of dx this season,and again many thanks. Yours in radio, John o sullivan. Got up this morning hoping to hear BQ9P but no luck even though many JA's were coming in well. Heard him direct path yesterday briefly but not strong enough to call. Yesterday he was best direct even though his signal on 80 was best long path. It seemed like both stations on 80/160 went QRT around 1100 well before our sunrise. Finished the day by working YJ0AMY about 15 minutes past my sunrise. These good conditions may be due in part to very low geomagnetic field activity we've enjoyed the past few days: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html Let's hope they continue for the remainder of BQ9P's operation! 73, Bill W4ZV _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband |
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