Rats. I was working on my Johnson Valiant last night and forgot it was 160 activity night. I have maybe 2 to 3 more weeks before the BOG and RBOG antennas get taken down as well as the INV-L radials
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
Author: "Lee. KX4TT via Topband" <topband@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:52:24 -0400
I suspect it's because someone thought you were QRMing TJ2TT; He was pretty much QSA0 for me. Local QRN/QRM has made 160 very tough for me; I could barely hear Roger and he is usually fairly easy cop
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
Author: "Lee. KX4TT via Topband" <topband@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 12:49:45 -0400
I thought I saw one spot on 1823 for them..............................you were in that area. I was doing maintenance and listening only, so I didn't note your frequency but heard your call loud and
VHF is fun, yes. But keep in mind that in the southern hemisphere it's winter when we have our summer. And there are times in our summer when it's quiet and we can work them on 160. :-) 73, Mike www.
Hi Steve This evening (29 March) was much better, a number of RBN responses from AA4VV, VE7CC-7 and W4KKN. It opened up around 10:45z. Thanks for the QSOs with VE3MGY, N0FW and N7UA. 73 Adrian VK2WF
Author: Herbert Schoenbohm <herbert.schoenbohm@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 20:54:39 -0400
Roger, I heard you well on 1827 tonight but called for about 30 minutes and just gave up. Your signal in the QRN was 369 most of the time, High tropical QRN here. _________________ Topband Reflector
It must have been "your turn" again Adrian! I worked DU7ET (more or less local), JA5BIN, and heard VE3MGY. N0FW reported my signal as "loud". There are very few folks on lately, even with an open ban
David, I very much enjoyed our simple QSO last night. Ignore the idiots who are reduced to being pests. They happen to turn up everywhere. By the way, the QSO was very useful: I was testing the new 1
Well the band is still open for DX between NA and Europe, as shown when I come on and get some great reports from various RBN stations . . . But do I have any real contacts? No ! Because I guess ther
The past few evenings all I've been noticed by are RBN, apart from a few die-hard Top Banders like AA1K, K4IQJ and DU7ET. These are some of the blokes who don't let a few summer atmospherics deter th
Well there were a few stations on last Wednesday . . . Hope there will be some more on this week ! 73 Roger G3YRO _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Well where has all the activity gone?! The band seemed open, based on RBN reports . . . But I didn't hear a single NA station. (I didn't hear any of the other European stations on work anyone either)
Roger. My guess is that it is considered "season over" by most of the boys. I rarely get on 160M after early April unless there is a specific DXpedition on. I don't think I am alone. In some cases, p
Yes, you're probably right Ed. But the band is certainly still open to North America at this time of year, and we rarely have any thunderstorms causing QRN on the band until August. I'll certainly be
Hmm, this last week was still hitting RBN over there, and worked G3OLB two different days a little before his sunrise. One of those was a long lovely old time 599 QSO with Tom, like I was working som
It's so frustrating that you always hear hundreds of stations on Top Band whenever there's a contest on, or when there's some DX-pedition active on the band . . . yet most of the time the band is dea
Author: K1RID via Topband <topband@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 06:10:39 -0500
Agreed. I have a modest (read sub-par) station but was thrilled to work 2 UK stations and a score of NA. Most nights I need to go to 80 for Qs. A 160 Activity Night (DX or not) could more occasionall