Topband: ON4UN ARRL DX 80m stor

[AC7ZG]

ON4UN(OO4UN for the contest)'s new 80m array is working very, very well.

He was able to pick my little pistol station out of the noise (600W into an
HF2V with too few radials :-) for a first-for-me 80m EU contact from Oregon.

Thanks John - and thansk for the excellent article posted. This "little
pistol" contester would like to see more articles by the big guns!

73
Don
AC7ZG

-----Original Message-----
From: topband-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Bill Tippett
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 8:34 AM
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Topband: ON4UN ARRL DX 80m story


http://www.uba.be/actual/pdf/ON4UN_ARRL_CW_2005.pdf

"1. The scores are greatly influence by the sunspot cycle. The solid (blue)
line is the
smoothed sunspot number for the month of February. Theoretically we should
hit the
bottom 2 years from now.
2. The (red) score curve (each year's winning score for Europe) is
complimentary to the
Smoothed Sunspot Number curve.
3. The score line keeps creeping up: we have better stations better
antennas and just plain
more activity on the low bands.
So a new records should be expected in 2006 or 2007."

         This is not directly Topband, but Chart 4 in John's
story shows some interesting correlation between scores
and solar activity.  If he's correct, we have several good
years ahead of us on 160 as well.

                                 73,  Bill  W4ZV



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