I used to work EU on 6-10M crossband in those days since very few had
authorization. Ireland was one that did and quite a few were on.
My rig was a HB 6AG7, 6V6, 829B crystal controlled with PP 6L6 modulators
into an ARRL HB 4 el yagi just above the 3el HB 10M which was above a HB 15M
at about 20' high. 6BQ7, 6J6 converter to a 20M IF was also HB.
On 10M it was a Viking I, HQ-129X. I lived out on LI, NY back then, in
Nassau County.
Fun days about 8 years before I met Stu Perry when I was at National and he
convinced me to try 160 after Id moved to 8 acres in NH.
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Olinger K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
To: <n2ic@arrl.net>
Cc: <topband@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: Not so Boring report
Alas, will I never see the likes of 1957-58 ever again for working EU on
6M
using an "end-fed" window screen for an antenna? On the other hand, now
that I have a couple really good trees to support 160m TX antenna, maybe I
don't care. So conflicted...
73, Guy.
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Steve London <n2icarrl@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/08/2012 12:52 PM, Tree wrote:
It's very unusual to work the morning opening during
a sunspot maximum.
A solar flux of 97 is not what I would call a solar maximum. More like a
bump in the new Mayan Minimum. Who knows what will happen on December 21
:)
. Don't forget that in previous sunspot maximum's, we would go 3 or more
years when the flux would never fall below 100 for even a day.
This is good news for topbands enthusiasts, unless the Mayan prophecy....
73,
Steve, N2IC
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