TopBand: S21XX via Long Path!

Bob Wruble ai7b@teleport.com
Tue, 4 Feb 1997 16:20:49 -0800


BILL ur rite big is btr on 160....i had a gap till
unexplainably folded in the middle recently and
it was a dummy load on 160 compared to anything 
else i tried......73 de bob    w7gg

congrats on the s21 nice catch.....

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> From: Bill Tippett <btippett@CTC.Net>
> To: topband@contesting.com
> Subject: TopBand: S21XX via Long Path!
> Date: Tuesday, February 04, 1997 3:38 PM
> 
> Wow!  First I see on OH2BUA that VE1ZZ logged him at 2204, then
> I got a call from Jeff telling me that he worked him out of the
> Northeast.  I start listening that direction and just begin to 
> hear a trace of him.  Then I try Long Path (Southeast Beverage0
> and he's much more readable.  3 or 4 calls and he comes back
> and is now 569 at 2320 which is 30 minutes past my sunset.  I'm
> copying him on my speaker as I write this at 2337.  
> 
> Attention anyone planning an expedition...throw away your Gap's,
> Butternut's and Gladiator's...get a BIG vertical like these guys
> are using (Titanex vertical about 55-60 feet tall).  BIG ANTENNAS
> WORK ON 160!  Remember that.  :-)
> 
>                                         73,  Bill  W4ZV
> 
> 
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