Well hopefully we'll get some stations on the band tonight ! I'll be on around 1828kHz from about 0000Z . . . Hope you'll be on too 73 Roger G3YRO _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http:
Listening in AZ. nil so far. 0300Z I'll be on around 1828kHz from about 0000Z . . . Hope you'll be on too 73 Roger G3YRO _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_top
Author: "Lee. KX4TT via Topband" <topband@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:36:25 -0400
Hmmm - local QRM (lights from nearby baseball field) made early evening copy tough on CW, so I booted up WSJT-X and saw some EU stations there (5B4AIF was steady copy, and some other EU stations woul
Alex, HC2AO, was QRV Wednesday night which must have been from a new/different location. He was running 20w to a 14m inverted L with 2 elevated radials from a balcony. He was weak but workable. He sa
Worked PJ5/SP2GCJ @0315 for a new one for me. OA4TT would have been a new one too (I'm a newby). He was quite strong but the one time he replied to me he didn't have my complete call, missing the
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
Author: ALEXEY OGORODOV via Topband <topband@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 19:20:30 +0300
Hello brethren, Dave, yes, I changed QTH moving from the ocean to Guayaquil city and now I'm residing in downtown area which implies certain challenges working low bands. However, to my joy, I'm not
Hi Dave, Although I made my first 160 QSO using a DX100 and a re-tuned car radio for a receiver in 1959 (a VE7 no less) I've not really been a regular on topband. Last year it dawned on me that if I
Well, I'm not sure if it has been poor conditions, or a just a lack of activity . . . But I've not heard many North American stations on the band lately. Hopefully we'll have some activity tonight !
Wednesday night was positively awful from VK3. I called CQ for nearly an hour and gave up with no calls, and only local RBN reporting. By contrast, Tuesday night was quite good to NA, with a number o
Hi PaulInteresting!It would seem that one's location makes a big difference.Last night I managed AA1K, K1CP and W6ENZ.But on the previous night on Tuesday, nothing.73Adrian VK2WF By contrast, Tuesda
Roger, A big front went through central Texas today, leaving us with 20-40 dB over S9 QRN. Parts of the area got 12 cm of rain, and the front extended all the way up to VE3-land. As always, we needed
Author: Victor Goncharsky via Topband <topband@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 09:30:07 +0300
We've been expecting 7Q7EI to show up but in vain. Looks like it's time to quit with this one. -- 73, Victor Goncharsky US5WE/K1WE (UW5W in VHF contests, ex UB5WE), P.E. UARL Technical and VHF Commit
Adrian, You are about 600 km north of me. That is certainly a sufficient distance to make a difference. Steve VK7CW is about 550 km south of me. I forgot to mention, Wednesday morning around 2030z I
Well conditions seemed pretty good last night . . . my RBN reports were certainly encouraging from several NA stations - one was even 49 dB over the noise ! However, there was a distinct lack of acti
Roger They are all on FT8 more or less. Then you do not need to hear the station you work, and you can even stay late in bed. Computer fix all QSO,,,,, for you. Unfortunately , this is killing our ho
Some of us in the W9 area now have to start contending with spring storms which raises the noise level considerably, and many folks are now beginning to take down 160 RX stuff ahead of summer. It may
You were 579 in VT but you could not hear my 100W. However, there was a distinct lack of activity - I stayed on from 0100Z for nearly 2 hours, but only worked 9 NA stations. Nothing like the dozens o
As of yesterday, I have temporarily decommissioned my primary DX antennas for TB (TX four square, Hi-Z 8 circle) due to the seasonal threat of lightning. I will keep the quarter wave sloping vertical