Hello Robin,
Hear you call two nights ago on CW. I worked George a few minutes later.
Now have 5 acres here in AZ to grow antenna and they seem to work. QTH is
quiet too.
George, thanks for the FT8 qso last night with W7YA, 3:30 am, with my AZ
call I use on FT8. That makes 9 bands.
73,
Ray,
N6VR/W7YA
On Fri, Jun 23, 2023, 3:06 PM m.r.c. <mrc02@kinderteacher.com> wrote:
> Hi George
>
> I could hear you well enough on 1827.5 to ID over my city lot S8 noise in
> So
> Calif, but no chance you would hear my 100 watts and a random wire
>
> The guys fussed at me when I added a dozen full length radials to the
> Titanex -
> we already had about 8 - it was up on the hard pan of the lava bed not
> down at
> the water.
>
> and we had stagger paired 1000 ft beverages that made it work like a 5
> element
> beam - and in the MUCH better part of the solar cycle.
>
> I don't think getting the radials into the water would be of any benefit -
> just
> full length so that the RF current had someplace to flow with the short
> radiator..
>
> thanks for making this possible. Its a huge improvement over the monster
> infrastructure we had to set up. More antenna of course is always
> better, but
> not having to build and maintain living and operating quarters is an
> incredible
> improvement- even to just operator fatigue - we had 7 stations and only 12
> ops
>
> 73
>
> Robin
> WA6CDR/VP6DX
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "GEORGE WALLNER" <aa7jv@atlanticbb.net>
> To: <topband@contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2023 10:12
> Subject: Re: Topband: VP6A
>
>
> >I was on 1827.5 from 0200 and form 0930 but there very very few callers.
> Most
> >signals that I've copied were just barely above the noise.
> > Apart form the lack of activity and high QRN in the northern hemisphere,
> we
> > have very poor ground at the antenna. We put out a lot of radials but
> could
> > not connect directly to the salt water.
> >
> >
> > Anyway, this is not a good time for TB here.
> > 73,
> > George
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 05:33:45 -0700 Wes wrote:
> >>I saw this when I got out of bed at 1000Z :-)
> >>
> >>Not that it mattered. One peep was about all I heard. Saw you spotted
> on 60
> >>but nothing seen. That's okay, worked you on 6/20.
> >>
> >>Still need 10 and 40 SSB too to fill my Bingo card.
> >>
> >>Wes N7WS
> >>
> >>On 6/22/2023 9:12 PM, GEORGE WALLNER wrote:
> >>
> >>>I will start around 0930.
> >>>GL,George
> >>>
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