Topband: TT8TT

[Herb Schoenbohm]

Alfeo,


Please don't give up on a simple  Beverage as results vary from location 
to location and even from times of the season.  It doesn't take much to 
lay out 500 feet o wire and ground one end with 470 ohm 2 watt non 
inductive resistor whille feeding the other end with a 9:1 toroid coil 
and running some RG-6 to the shack.  hopefully you could run this 
antennas favoring North America and use your TX antenna for Eu stations 
which are much closer.  I tired without sucess to get TT8AMO due to his 
inability to hear me.  Normally West Africa is not a problem for me 
since the distance is not far.  I guess it all depends on the noise 
levels.  I still need TT8 on 160 and will be in there trying as soon as 
you get on next month.

73 and Good Luck with your trip

Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ



On 9/18/2012 11:31 AM, Alfeo Caputo wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> as a member of the next TT8TT expedition I assure you that a special
> care will be taken in logging as much as possible on topband and 80m.
> In the last expedition in Africa the major problem was the weak signal,
> the noise was not so much struggling us but some storms were in the
> area.
> In Ivory Coast we got the best results by using the transmitting antenna
> to receive too, it was a vertical wire hanged to palm three dropping to
> the lagoon, with the radials in the water. The beverage and the DHDL
> were useless, just a loop and the vertical gave reasonable result.
>
> In Tchad we know there is not enough land to lay a beverage, therefore
> we are ready with the stuff to rise a loop and a DHDL (of course, the
> wire for a beverage is in our bag, just in case...).
> We are planning to bring a W7IUW pre-amplifier (I just drop an email to
> Elecraft to know about the relevant connection to the rig) hoping to
> rise the signal level.
>
> Any suggestion is appreciated.
>
> Best 73,
>
> Alfeo I1HJT
>
> One of TT8TT crew
>
> Il 18/09/2012 14.12, Mike Greenway ha scritto:
>> If you still need TT on Topband, as I do, please go to 
>> http://www.i2ysb.com/joomla5/ and vote in their band needed survey to 
>> show you need them on 160.  Often the AF expeditions will shy away 
>> from Topband stating “too much QRN” but hopefully this one will hang 
>> in there.  73 Mike K4PI
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