Topband: TO7CC

[Kenneth Grimm]

Being on the left coast obviously has its disadvantages...except when you
want to work into SE Asia.....then you can smile when we on the right coast
get up in the early morning hours to have maybe a 5 minute opening to
HS0ZKX or DU7ET.  Fortunately for us over here, those two dudes understand
the gray line and make the most of it!

Norbert, DJ7JC and Gilles, F6IRA have both been operating TO7CC on the low
bands and I believe that both understand gray line propagation.  However,
this expedition is coming to an end very soon.  They will QRT on Sunday.
 By their web site time clock, they have a little over one day to go.  I'll
get one more try, possibly two, on 160 when hopefully the propagation will
be OK and the snow noise will have dropped to a reasonable level....

Good luck to all of us who need them on top band!

73,

Ken - K4XL


On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 3:39 PM, <rich_k7zv at gphilltop.com> wrote:

> Jim,
>
> Your points about understanding grey line propagation is right. I know
> that they have been on almost everyday working just that. If you have a
> great circle map located on your QTH you will see a very great difference
> in paths between FT5ZM and TO7CC. FT5ZM was almost a East West path and
> TO7CC is North South Path right through the intensity of the auroral
> oval.... a much more difficult path by far. So I don't think I can expect
> to hear TO7CC as easily as I did FT5ZM.
>
> Rich K7ZV
>
> > On 2/14/2014 11:04 AM, Kenneth Grimm wrote:the
> >> They have said that they will operate through
> >> their night if there is an opening on 80 and/or 160.
> > They need to understand grey line propagation to work NA on 160 and 80,
> and to realize that there's an opening to Zone 3/4 around their sunset and
> our sunrise. FT5ZM did that to great advantage, working Zone 4/5 around
> 4/5 sunset and Zone 3/4 at sunrise. According to ClubLog, they made 3,571
> Qs on Topband, of which 784 were to North America!
> > 73, Jim K9YC
> > _________________
> >
>