Luke, I was really happy with this past evening/morning's events. I was listening around 1825.5 and immediately heard you calling CQ when you first started up. When W6IZT did not answer you, I figu
I made many changes to some of my noisy beverages and have dropped the noise level by a large amount. I saw an improvement last night and this morning of around 27 dB from where I started, which is
Hi Wes, I got home late (0100 UT) from a school band performance (grandkids!) and found no activity to speak of. I hoped to find G3YRO but no luck. QRN levels from lightning had dropped towards Euro
I am hearing it here in Maine and it is very loud, peaking at -75 dBm on my East and NE beverages, and -65 dBm on my vertical. It seems to be East or NE from me. I had just installed some coax 1:1 ba
Roger, I was QRV for awhile, but seem to have attracted someone who hated my guts. I was QRMed while trying to work stations. they put a carrier on top of the stations I tried to work. They QRMed the
I thought of that, Lee. I think I was at least 1 kHz below wherever TJ2TT showed up, and I asked if the freq was in use twice, before I called CQ. (I think they were spotted on 26 or 26.5 after I w
I thought that conditions on Wednesday evening were pretty darn good at times, but some strange things were going on. Roger G3YRO, was good copy running between S7 and S9, which is a great signal. I
I have been playing around with FT8 on 160M and am a bit puzzled. I have made plenty of contacts, but with many stations, it seems to require an inordinate amount of power to get their attention, or
Hi Mike and all who responded. I guess I was just underwhelmed at what I could accomplish on FT8 vs CW on 160. I figured it would open up a whole new level of rare countries and places that we
Hello Ashraf, I am afraid that NA activity has gone down to almost no activity at all! It is also true that signals have been weak when there at all. Don't touch your beverage. It is working fine! R
Hi Larry I would vote for the 600 ft beverage and put it about 6 ft above the ground. I added ferrite chokes to all my feedlines to remove any common mode noise. I had chokes at the transformer end w
I used a return loss bridge and measured a TEE fitting with a good 50 ohm load on one port the length of cable on the other side. The antenna analyzer will read a perfect 50 ohm match when the cable
I would echo Tim's remarks. I bought a bunch of Russian caps on EPAY for a 160 meter amplifier and they overheated and changed value. One blew up. They were horrible as a plate coupling cap. The sel
I am not an expert on DX peditions, coming late to HF and 160 meters in my life, but I could not get over the operator at VP6D this morning on 1.826. Whoever it was, he was flying and getting the ca
I missed you last night, Roger I did try listening on the band 2 hours before my sunset and was surprised to hear a DL1 station at S7 or S8. It was an amazing signal at 19:42 UT. I just happened to
Hi Steve I missed my sunset as I had a doctor's appt. I had a bad case of Lyme Disease in 2017, and am still taking meds. The doctor was thrilled with my recent bloodwork and figures that I have an a
I worked a UA station in Vladivostok on 160 meters and it was two hours after his sunrise. This was in winter, so his Sun never got up very high. At the time I did not pay attention to the contact a
Hello Mark, Glad you caught it! That is a wonderful day for the northeast! I was up at 1115UT this AM, as the dog wanted to go out, and I pondered whether to trudge out to my barn and get on 160. I
I would echo the comments about running an RG-6 feedline across a radial field. I picked up huge amounts of common mode noise that got into everything. (even other beverage wires!) I had to move the
Hello Wes, I tried 160 back in the early 70's when my brother was active from CO and we skedded on weekends. I used a long wire about 650 ft long for both TX and RX. Working Europe was special w