We worked quite a lot of Stateside on 160 from 3B9C (2004). On the way back
we met up with Jacky in Port Louis and talked to him about 160 (I had
worked Jacky on topband from home back in the 80's, like Frank). Jacky
explained that he used to run his topband antenna onto some wasteland
adjacent to his home. By the time we saw him in 2004 that wasteland had
been built on so that he could no longer take advantage of it.
Don G3XTT
On 10 September 2013 14:15, <donovanf@starpower.net> wrote:
> I worked and received a QSL from Jackie for a Topband QSO on 13 Nov 1987.
> A long time ago!
>
> 73
> Frank
> W3LPL
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
> To: topband@contesting.com
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 8:05:32 AM
> Subject: Re: Topband: 3B9EME
>
> You did not say exactly how many years ago you worked Jacky on 160. In
> 1999, after a DXpedition to 3B9 in which Jacky was a participant, the
> homeward-bound DXpeditioners (including myself) were at Jacky's house in
> Mauritius, standing on his roof and enjoying a beer. Jacky pointed to
> the house and lot next door and related how, before the lot was
> developed, he had used it for 160m. I don't think he has replaced that
> long-last antenna. I, already a rabid topbander, was of course
> disappointed by that turn of events.
>
> As 3B9R, we had erected a Titanex with 60 radials on a soccer pitch and
> had a kW. We worked lots of Europe, but only a handful of NA stations on
> the east coast, on one evening. No west coast at all.
>
> Garry, NI6T
>
> On 9/9/2013 6:39 PM, Charlie Cunningham wrote:
> > Wow! That's a good one!! I worked Jacky, 3B8CF many years ago on 160, but
> > never 3B9! Lowest bands I've ever worked 3B9 were 40 and 30 m. I worked
> > Jacky just before sunset here in Raleigh NC! Worked him with the FT-757
> GX
> > that I had back then, with a GG 4-400A afterburner doing the best it
> could -
> > about 450 W to my inverted L with the submerged radials in the lake! :-)
> >
> > Charlie, K4OTV
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mike
> > Waters
> > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 9:30 PM
> > To: topband
> > Subject: Topband: 3B9EME
> >
> > 3B9EME has been calling CQ (listening up ~1) on 1822 for over an hour.
> But
> > they can't seem to hear very well.
> >
> > At one time, they were S7 here in SW Missouri. Someone tell them to put
> up
> > a Beverage antenna. :-)
> >
> > 73, Mike
> > www.w0btu.com
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