I second all that Larry. Maybe I should've called again this morning to break
the monotony but I did see on the scope others were calling and I didn't want
to QRM them.
Wes. N7WS
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> On Feb 10, 2019, at 11:19 AM, Larry via Topband <topband@contesting.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Wes,
>
> They have been very loud around 1300z, my usual potty stop. Worked them a few
> days ago on the first call and again this morning using the W7NQ club call. I
> only hear a few west coast stations calling them and the USA stations are
> having trouble hearing. They came back to a Calif station three times before
> the N6 answered. Pretty strange.
>
> Went up the band and called CQ with no JA answer and no RBN spot. I found
> that very strange.
>
> Just goes to prove the understanding of low bands by Jeff and Krassey. They
> had the same great signal on the Spratley operation also. My complements to
> Jeff for his great 160 meter efforts. Must be discouraging to call CQ for
> hours at a time with no answers and just listen to noise. THANKS JEFF!
> Larry/ n7dd
>
> Sent by Larry
>
> On Feb 10, 2019, at 5:56 AM, Wes <wes_n7ws@triconet.org> wrote:
>
> I first worked them on 160 on 2/8 @1201Z. Very marginal so tried again with
> a sure QSO @1222Z. Went to 80 and worked them @1404Z. This one didn't show
> when it should have in Clublog, so worked them again on 2/9 @1134Z. I went
> to 40 and worked them @1154Z. Again, not sure they got "WS", maybe "WH" so I
> just worked them again @1222Z. Listened on 160 and hear CQ and spotted them
> first @1229Z. As I write this ~1250Z, they are 579.
>
> Of course, none of this should be happening because I'm using an 55-foot
> inverted-L with 20 radials for TX and RX on 160 and a 45-foot high
> inverted-vee on 80 and 40 and everyone know these won't work:-)
>
> Wes N7WS
>
>
>> On 2/9/2019 11:20 AM, cqtestk4xs--- via Topband wrote:
>> Antenna here is a bent wire vertical with 60 radials and an SAL-30.
>> As expected they were coming in from due west anywhere from 549-579 an hour
>> before my sunrise until a little after my sunrise. I called and called for
>> an hour with no contact, while they were working mostly EU and some Asia.
>> Bill KH7XS
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