TopBand: JY8ZW on Topband

[Bernie McClenny]

The following is from Ken, K4ZW/JY8ZW who is in Amman, Jordan until
Sunday.  I bet he will be on in the ARRL 160 CW contest.  de Bernie

> 
> Good Morning - I wanted to give you a quick update. I managed to get the
> 160 slopper working yesterday and tried it out last night but with limited
> success. 160 is very noisy where I am. There is a lot of QRM including
> broadcast stations.  It gets a bit quiter in the early morning but the S
> meter never drops below S-8.  I don't hold out much hope of working the US
> on 160 but maybe I can add some europeans to the log book.  I'm usually on
> for europe around 20Z.  80 meters to europe was pretty good Tuesday. I only
> managed to work 2 east coast stations.  I don't know if anyone else was
> calling but if so, I didn't hear anything.  I'll continue to look for the
> US on the low bands at least one hour before my sunrise at 04:24Z.  I'll be
> here until late Sunday evening (local time) after which I head to Tel Aviv.
>  If I had more time I'd try to improve the antenna situation.  I should be
> off of work the next two days so maybe 10, 15, and 20 will open up to the
> states morning your time.  If you would, pass along my 160 info to the
> reflector and feel free to use any of this in your newsletter.  Don't give
> out the e-mail address though.  It doesn't belong to me.
> 
>                                                         73
>                                                         Ken K4ZW/JY8ZW

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Bernie McClenny, W3UR (ex WR3E, WB3JRU)
Editor of The Daily DX
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bernie.mcclenny@mail.wdn.com



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