Topband: A35

[Herb Schoenbohm]

Jim,  What Alexey was referring to was DX-peditions in the Pacific 
(FT5ZM was the Indian Ocean and produce some interesting antipodal paths 
favoring the Midwest ) and I would agree with Alexey that most 
operations in the Pacific have been very hard to work or even hear on 
TopBand from this area.  There were some exceptions perhaps due to 
serious dedication to locating near the beach with excellent RX antennas 
as well.  They would include K9W and T33A.  Also W8A made some effort to 
make the ellusive American Samoa possible to work for me for a new one.

One of the classic mistakes with many of the Pacific DX-peditions is 
repeated my some over and over and that is the look at the darn Grey 
Line tool on their laptops to decided for them when they fire up on Top 
Band for East Coast stations.  This is normally 1 hours after my Sunrise 
here in the Eastern Caribbean at 64.7 degrees WL so a contact is not 
possible. More recently TX6G by coming on at his sunset, by design for 
*all* of NA resulted in many contacts. Even though I can work across the 
Pacific to ZL3IX (14,000 km) with ease any morning we try, anything in 
between at half the distance is a totally different story.

At least by Pacific DX-peditions coming on Top Band at *their* sunset 
IMHO it is more NA QSO productive plus they have propagation to Western 
Europe often for well equipped stations who are often waiting and hoping 
to get in their log for a new one.


Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ




On 4/13/2014 3:04 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 4/12/2014 4:29 PM, ALEXEY OGORODOV wrote:
>> BTW pretty much every  single pedition to the Pacific recently have 
>> not performed well on low bands.
>
> You must have slept through FT5ZM.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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