About an hour ago the UPS man delivered my KPA500 that had been back to
Elecraft for a new pair of FETs, I already have the transformer reinstalled
and am on the air. I've worked you on 10 slots with 90 W, including 80m CW, so
I'll add the loading wire to the vertical and try you on 160 with 500W.
Unfortunately, I also have strong RFI on the band, That's a long story already
told on the RFI reflector.
It is "monsoon" season here and before SR (1245Z) a lot of sparky noise from
the east adds to the misery.
Wes N7WS
On Friday, August 9, 2024 at 01:55:36 PM MST, GEORGE WALLNER
<aa7jv@atlanticbb.net> wrote:
We are super busy, Updating Clublog once a day is all we got time for.
The 160 m antenna (actually 160 - 10) is at the water's edge -- a good
location. Two of the higher bands antennas are up on a berm but these
stations run 100 W only.
We have built yesterday a DHDL for RX but we need to move it away from the
generators as it is picking up generator noise. I hope to improve our RX
capability within a couple of days.
Last night we worked CU two hour after our SS -- not the same as EU, but it
suggests that there is a small chance. At our SR we were on 160 for EU SS
but only got as far west as R7. Will keep on trying. I
have been amazed by the huge difference between signal strengths on 160
and 80 m. The same stations that are barely detectable are 599+ on 80! It
can not be just their antennas. For sure November would be better for TB,
but...
Keep Trying!
73,
George
On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 10:22:02 -0700 Steve Harrison wrote:
>On 8/9/2024 7:11 AM, Wes wrote:
>
>>IT would be nice if they updated Clublog more often. With all of thesuper
>>duper remote capabilities one would think this would be easy.
>I'm sure that George is doing the best that he can, with what he's got.
>With so many players in the game (including the non-ham scientists that
>accompanied them), it must be tough trying to keep track and control of
>everything going on!
>
>Being on the west coast and thus closer than many to Jarvis, I've been
>astonished at how well they have radiated on both 160m and 80m; at
>least, to SoCal. Seems to me that the weakest signals have been on all
>of the higher bands, but that's likely because propagation to Jarvis
>from the desert of SoCal just hasn't "bounced" quite right for those
>bands very often.
>
>Steve, K0XP
>
>
>
>>Wes N7WS
>>On 8/9/2024 6:26 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>>>Hover over your QSO in ClubLog's Expedition Charts:
>>><
>>>https://clublog.org/charts/?c=N5J
>>>>
>>>
>>>That will show who was at the controls for your QSO.
>>>
>>>73,
>>>
>>> ... Joe, W4TV
>>>
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