Topband: J6

[Greg - ZL3IX]

Hi Carl,

I was in e-mail contact with N7QT during his J6 operation, which 
finished a couple of days ago.

You are right, the antenna had to be shared with 160m and 80m, and for 
some reason could not be switched during the night.  Hence, they had to 
commit to one band or the other before sundown.

I found the operation on 160 very spotty, almost not really serious.  I 
guess it was mainly a holiday operation.   I had several "skeds" with 
them.  On one occasion the sked didn't happen because the other op 
decided he wanted 80m that night.  On another occasion, they operated on 
1837, up in the digital modes segment, and I didn't even tune as high as 
that.  On the last night apparently their antenna fell down, and they 
found it on the ground in the morning. Apparently they thought the band 
was a bit quiet - I wondered to myself how it was that they didn't 
notice something wrong with the SWR!

All in all a bit of a non-event from my point of view.

73, Greg ZL3IX


On 2012-12-15 12:19 a.m., Carl Jonsson wrote:
> Anybody hrd  J6 /N7QT on 160? Heard him on 80 on Dec 11th, but since then
> nothing. Any news?
> 73 Carl SM6CPY
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