Topband: JA opening?

[Jim Brown]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:33:35 -0800, wb6tza at socal.rr.com wrote:

>A K2/100 & a Hamstick mobile to JA on topband?  Naaah, can't 
>happen... but it did. 

Congrats on doing it mobile, Robin. Mobile rigs can do a lot more 
than we give them credit for. I've worked some DX through pileups on 
30M, as well as some long path from NV to EU with 100W and a Ham 
Stick. The low angle of a mobile vertical helps too. 

FYI -- topband is OFTEN open in the morning to JA, and sometimes 
with pretty good signals. One key requirement is a low enough noise 
level to hear them. 

73,

Jim K9YC
(up the coast in Santa Cruz)