George, your quite the physical specimen! Good luck getting set up.
Will be listening an hour before Ohio sunrise...... 1100z.-1200z
Also, FWIW, 10m had a huge BY opening last night around 0000z. Saw
four BA-BH-BI spots, copied three and worked all three. So we seem to
be having excellent openings on 10m to all points of the globe these
days. So you might find success into EU. Now that the sunroom and deck
construction is complete, my home brew Moxon at 22 ft is up. Its first
test in last weekends CQWW produced a respectable 611 qsos 95
countries including 10 Pacific islands.
Tomorrow for Winter Season, I plan to roll out my 26 radials for the
160 INV-L, which should add 0.5-1.0 S-unit to the signal vs running it
in summer mode with no radials and against one ground rod. I worked
you in summer mode not long ago so it works pretty well.
Bob
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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2023 00:52:17 +0000
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OK1CF/Karel heard about 0040 UTC calling CQ, very deep QSB going from
Q5 copy down to nothing and back again. K4TL worked him from Florida
but I was not heard.
I called CQ numerous times but no replies. Even with 500 watts I was
not making it onto any of the RBN spotters from EU.
Went up to 80 with 500 watts and was spotted by G4IRN.
This is depressing. I don't have high hopes for the 160 meter contest
in December. What a difference from 2009-2010 when 100 watts easily
got me into EU and middle east.
Mark Lunday, WD4ELG
Greensboro, NC FM06be
wd4elg@arrl.net
http://wd4elg.blogspot.com [1]
SKCC #16439 FISTS #17972 QRP ARCI #16497
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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2023 01:04:49 +0000
From: Mark Lunday
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Subject: Topband: Looking back 11 years ago on 160
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The band was on fire from here in central NC.
Logbook shows lots of EU, C5, KH6, 5T, PY0S, RI1ANF, V5, ZS, ZL, even
UY0ZG!
Something is different, maybe it's not just me.
Mark Lunday, WD4ELG
Greensboro, NC FM06be
wd4elg@arrl.net
http://wd4elg.blogspot.com [2]
SKCC #16439 FISTS #17972 QRP ARCI #16497
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 01:58:51 -0400
From: "GEORGE WALLNER"
To: Topband@contesting.com
Subject: Topband: KH8 from Manu-a -- Update
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We have dropped anchor at Manu-a this afternoon. We tried to get to
the
beach in the tender, but it was way too rocky and we could not even
get
close to the beach. I have swam out to the shore and have scouted out
a
channel that we will attempt tomorrow morning at high tide. Fingers
crossed.
The location has a 1200' almost vertical mountain-side to the S, SE
and SW.
Open to the NE, N and NW.
(Google maps -14.164769 -169.621227.) I hope that a skewed path
opening will
get me to W EU just after my SS, starting around 0530 Z. And then E
EU
maybe around my SR at 1630 Z.
I will post if we make is ashore in one piece and get the radio
working.
You never know....
73,
George,
AA7JV
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