I compared numbers from my Daiwa CN720B to the Bird numbers and got: 20w my Po was 3% low. 10w my Po was 5% low 5w my Po was 28% low. Cant imagine how the below 5w numbers might compare. as the trend
Thought for sure you would tell us a lightning arrestor on a power pole a mile away had worn out and was in the permanent arcing position. A few years back a buddy and I tracked down my 59+20 noise t
Yes. Many strong Euros were coming in last night! . And many couldnt hear me. A few heard me but only after 10+ calls did they pull out my callsign. Luckily HP3SS gave me a new one on TB on my first
Id give it a 6.5. Europe was plentiful on FRI night, but with just fair sigs. SA-CA-Carib fair. I tried very hard to work a loud LU8 with no success! No Asia. No Pacific. No Africa. Thank you KL7RA!
Sounds scary Roger. Glad you came out of it reasonably well. ( I have 52 ft of 1.5"x 4' sections of mil surplus aluminum mast ( one by one LIFT- then INSERT the next at ground level) laid into a 40 f
Saw the comments on adding radials, so I had to comment on my situation this year. I didnt get around to rolling out the 27 radials ( 30'-130' long depending on PL) yet, so I entered the ARRL 160 Con
Europe was fair here in Ohio, Andree, with a few strong sigs. Most everyone I call I worked, but wasnt focusing on DX, since rate is King in that contest. And propagation was very good to excellent a
40m can be pretty messy in the evenings with broad swatches of the phone band heavily disrupted by what i understand to be OTH radar from Cuba. that Cuba uses to block hf communications to and from C
Use a 6 yr old SAL30 and it outperforms my 2 el 40m phased array by quite a bit in its favored directions. Its my primary rx antenna for 160-80-40m. The SAL took me up to 178/164 on 160m and was a bi
Interesting commends by N4IV re: proximity of SAL to ground. Over the years Ive read several emails/comments on here by uses and the Array Solutions people regarding height above ground for the SAL30
I can only echo Jim's comments about mechanical issues with very thin wire. I use aluminum fence wire #17 guage, and have to coil/uncoil my radials for the mowing season. This wire works fine but ten
Direct fed at the top, with the coax braid grounded to the tower. No radials needed. Ive used 1/4 wave slopers for 40, 80 and 160, with towers between 48 and 66 ft tall. On 40m dx performance was out
Will be looking for you. Good luck in the contest! Bob W3HKK [1] Links: -- [1] http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband%3Cbr _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.c
Roger, G3YRO: Good to work you again. But Ive been caught with my pants down...err I mean with my radials up. Coiled up for summer mowing but now its too cold and snowy to lay them out. So Ive been w
Fri night rates in Ohio were below average but open to EU. Sat night was slow with few signals as the night progressed, and 51 dupes. :< My 3830 summary: W3HKK: 18:45 hrs OTA 694 Q's ( plus another 5
Bill, thanks for the QSO and the mult! But its hard to say re: your new antenna. It should be a whopper for you, with 100 vertical ft, but overall signals wee down, and I didnt hear a lot from CA SA
Jim, I said the same thing in the ARRL 160 contest. I heard DPM loud and clear and called my head off...to no avail. And he wasnt coming back to anyone. Assumed his QRN/M problems must be monumental.
Roger, I think that storm you had has circled around and will be coming through Ohio later this week! :) Overall, I saw the 2022 contest rate here in the US was below normal for even the beginning of
Thanks for the tip Andy. Here in Ohio I notice quite often when EU is coming through on 160 after our SS and until your SR, the next morning I rarely if ever hear VK or the Pacific. To the contrary,