So far yesterday (Wednesday) morning was the best I heard George for his
KH8 run here in Northern New Jersey. Did hear him very light this
morning also but could not copy clean. When he went to 80 meters at
12:00 UTC he was stronger for me and could copy him fairly well. Made a
few call attempts but no joy as the band was closing up on that path for
me by 12:30 UTC. I am only using a short inverted L for 160 so George's
salt water grounded vertical is doing a good job. Did well on his
North Cook Is. run (E51D) back in early September so hoping 160
propagation will work for us again. Will try again tomorrow for the last
shot at this.
Paul - W2NMI
On 11/9/2023 1:23 PM, W3HKK@roadrunner.com wrote
You are a hardy man!. I remember the "cold finger syndrom" working on
my Heights 56' tilt-over tower back in the 70s-80s-90s. Alas deed
restrictions at our penultimate house forced me to sell the tower and
KT-36XA/204BA/DB10-12A antenna farm.
At the retirement QTH I was down to all wire monoband HF antennas
until I decided to home brew a Moxon for 10m. Its my best antenna. The
retirement QTH has 3 acres in the country but only one tree usable for
antennas where I have 52' tall qtr wave INV-Ls for 160 and 80, working
against a single 8 ft ground rod. I supplement that in winter with 26
assorted lengths of radials between 35 and 135 ft long. They get
coiled up during mowing season. Right now Im in mid-decoiling. :)
No Beverage hr at present but a SAL30 rx antenna works fairly well
from BCST thru 40m.
The K index rose again from 2 to 3 this morning and 160 prop was worse
than yesterday morning, so you didnt miss mutch. A few guys in 0-Land
and west heard him but no luck east of the Mississippi. I think George
may have one more morning OTA before setting sail.
Bob
-----------------------------------------From: "David Olean"
To: "topband@contesting.com"
Cc:
Sent: Thursday November 9 2023 11:06:52AM
Subject: Re: Topband: George in KH8 Land
I have been repairing my beverages this fall and listened for AA7JV
in
American Samoa in the morning on Nov 8th. I had a bad birdie on
1822.5
that sounded liked gurgling Scottish bagpipes. but did hear George
fairly well with some QSB. I was not getting through and quit right
at
Sunrise as I was off to help with some tower work a few hours away.
This AM I overslept Sunrise. Five hours on the tower with cold temps
and
a pretty good wind, chilled me through and through. I was exhausted.
I
will try again on Nov 10th at my Sunrise. Signals on the 8th were not
so
good here in New England. (or maybe my beverages are still broken?)
73
Dave K1WHS (The call with all the dits)
On 11/8/2023 4:30 PM, W3HKK@roadrunner.com wrote:
> I heard you this morning between 1145 and 1200z ( in and out.) but
a
> big improvement over the past two nights when there was no copy.
The K
> was down to 2 and might be down to 1 by morning. Hope so since
there
> usually is a correlation between low K and good 160 DX.
>
> So, if things work out and the trend continues, tomorrow will be
the
> best and you will have saved the best for last. :) I'll be in the
Ohio
> window from 1130-1215z looking to find out.
>
> Will this be your last stop before heading home, or are more stops
> still planned?
>
> Bon voyage
>
> Bob - W3HKK
>
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