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1. Topband: Frustration (score: 1): Author: Merv Schweigert <k9fd@flex.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:25:51 -1000; There are good days and there are "bad" days, This morning was copying VU7 on top band for 45 minutes, some QSB but peaking solid 569 no joy with 100watts. Also they were 589 on 80 meters, again did; /archives//html/Topband/2007-01/msg00280.html (7,134 bytes)
2. Topband: frustration (score: 1): Author: "G B" <microsys@alltel.net>; Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:30:52 -0400; Hello, Well with CQ WW behind us, very slim pickings for a barefoot guy. I called and called two S9 plus Caribbean stations, and they did not even say QRZ(?). The heard HC8N and one call no problem.; /archives//html/Topband/2007-10/msg00177.html (7,071 bytes)
3. Topband: frustration (score: 1): Author: Bill Tippett <btippett@alum.mit.edu>; Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:48:32 -0400; K4KV: even say QRZ(?). thousands of miles away can hear me with no trouble, and ones 'in my back yard cannot. Hurricane QRN in the Caribbean and none around HC8...see below: http://webflash.ess.washi; /archives//html/Topband/2007-10/msg00178.html (6,671 bytes)
4. Re: Topband: Frustration (score: 1): Author: "John Rogers" <johnr1g3pqa@onetel.com>; Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:02:04 -0000; I think one of the major attractions of 160m is that working DX is not easy from an average setup, but a real thrill if you make a rare QSO especially after spending days or weeks using your own eff; /archives//html/Topband/2007-10/msg00179.html (7,013 bytes)
5. Re: Topband: frustration (score: 1): Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <w5uc@suddenlink.net>; Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:26:30 -0500; Glen, I have noticed in recent weeks, that from here in East Texas, Europe & Africa are easier to work than the Caribbean. I'm not smart enough to understand why, but don't give up. The season is you; /archives//html/Topband/2007-10/msg00180.html (7,570 bytes)
6. Re: Topband: frustration (score: 1): Author: "Tom McAlee" <tom@klient.com>; Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:19:36 -0400; say QRZ(?). Most likely we (V26B) were one of them. Until you operate down here, it is hard to understand why stations thousands of miles away can hear you but stations in the Caribbean cannot. Bein; /archives//html/Topband/2007-10/msg00182.html (7,346 bytes)
7. Re: Topband: frustration (score: 1): Author: K4RO Kirk Pickering <k4ro@k4ro.net>; Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:15:40 -0500; I remember my first time ever at the key as DX from the Caribbean. We were just barely off the plane, and I sat down at the VP5B station on 160m CW. It was a few nights before the CQWW SSB 2003 conte; /archives//html/Topband/2007-10/msg00187.html (8,337 bytes)
8. Re: Topband: frustration (score: 1): Author: "Jeff Maass" <jmaass@k8nd.com>; Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:10:06 -0500; I have become convinced that one must be brain-damaged to sit sorting signals-from-static on Topband in the Caribbean for extended periods. It's painful and frustrating most of the time, with the oc; /archives//html/Topband/2007-10/msg00188.html (9,080 bytes)
9. Re: Topband: frustration (score: 1): Author: ku8e@bellsouth.net; Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:56:30 +0000; I agree 100% with what K8ND, W4ZV and K4RO have said about operating in the Caribbean. I have been to PJ2T twice and I was shocked how weak most of the USA stations were the first time I operated the; /archives//html/Topband/2007-11/msg00022.html (8,387 bytes)

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