Topband: A newbie question

[Ray Benny]

Tom,

I worked XV7BM at 1328z this morning about 10 minutes before our SR. When I
worked him, he was 559, but within 10 minutes he was 579!

I'm running about 1400 watts out to a 70 ft vertical with (2) 50 ft top hat
wires. I have over 100 135 ft ground radials. My RX antenna is a HI-Z 4 SQ
antenna that works great! It increases the signal about one S unit, but
also rejects noise off the sides and back. It has helped me greatly in
hearing DX on 80m &  160m.

Ray,

N6VR
Chino, Valley
North Central AZ


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:20 AM, <jhsimon at comcast.net> wrote:

> I worked XV7BM on 160 at my sunrise (about 1400z) this morning, running
> about 900w, and transmitting/receiving on the same antenna, a half-sloper
> off a 110' tower. He was peaking over s-9 when I worked him.
>
> All the same facts applied to my QSO with HS0ZKX  yesterday.
>
> Now if only XZ1Z would appear tomorrow morning...
>
> Good luck!
>
> 73,
> Jim  W1YY
> Kingston, WA
>
> -----Original Message----- From: wa8wzg at wa8wzg.net
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:45 AM
> To: TopBand
> Subject: Topband: A newbie question
>
>
> To all,,, I am relatively new to 160,,, I work  the vhf/uhf/Eme
> spectrum,so I am used to weak signal work,, I  just moved to arizona,and
> decided to try 160!!,. I had no problem working the HS0 yesterday morning ,
> but I could not hear the XV7 this morning,,I  heard a lot of my "neighbors"
> working him... Could anyone give me any info on his xmit power and what
> type of receiving antenna those of you who worked him, were using??
> Thanks!!
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