TopBand: S21XX via Long Path!

[Milt Jensen]

Bill, Bob, and others.  YES, Bigger is Better on 160 M.  Nothing else like
a full sized 1/4 wavelength
		         ground plane mounted 1/8 wavelength above ground.  Good DX es 73
de

		         Milt Jensen     ARS N5IA
Virden NM Rt. Box 176
Duncan, AZ -- 85534
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> From: Bob Wruble <ai7b@teleport.com>
> To: Bill Tippett <btippett@CTC.Net>; topband@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: TopBand: S21XX via Long Path!
> Date: Tuesday, February 04, 1997 5:20 PM
> 
> 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.....
 

> > 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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