Topband: Pre-Sunset

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That East-West problem is almost a daily occurance over here with EU and 
especially with a vertical. Ive had relatively decent results with a 180' 
high dipole until the angles shift to favor the verticals.

On 80M Ive often heard EU 2-3 hours before sunset but again we are just too 
weak to get thru the din which is the norm on both bands in EU.

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Brown" <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: Pre-Sunset


> On 4/17/2012 12:22 PM, Robin wrote:
>> We have recordings of contacts made with VP6DX on 160 SSB with the 
>> eastern end in full
>> daylight...  Real contacts, not someone playing with a remoted station in 
>> Florida.  An
>> analysis of the VP6DX logs will probably show a couple hundred contacts 
>> with the far end
>> in hard daylight, and probably 25-50 or so with the VP6DX end still in 
>> real daylight
>
> About nine years ago, before moving to CA I leased a mountaintop site
> near Sacramento, and had a 100W rig feeding a loaded dipole sloping away
> from a 170 ft tower.  I worked a guy in the Caribbean from there at
> least an hour before my sunset.
>
> Working contests on Topband from my home 70 miles S of San Francisco
> with 1.5kW, an omni vertical, and Beverages, I regularly hear east coast
> stations at least two hours before my sunset, but they can rarely hear
> me, primarily because they're listening on Beverages aimed to EU. I can
> also regularly work anyone I can hear out to about 1,000 miles in this
> time frame -- Seattle, Phoenix, CO, NM.  After my sunrise, what I hear
> from the west varies a lot from day to day, but I've made a good number
> of 4,500-5,500 mile Qs a half hour after sunrise.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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