Topband: CX/W1UE Tonight

[Filipe Lopes]

Hi Dennis,

In Europe you can go as low as 1.810 MHz for TX.


73's Filipe Lopes
CT1ILT - CR6K
F4VPX - TM3M

2015-12-10 16:07 GMT+01:00 Dennis Egan <egan.dennis88 at gmail.com>:

> Guys
>
> Last night was frustrating.  I know a lot of you were calling, but I was
> only able to pull out 7 stations, all W5 and W7.  The noise level here was
> a constant S9.  If you translate the seasons into the northern hemisphere,
> it is now May 10- and, as an operator there, you know what that means to
> your atmospheric noise level.
>
> BTW, the station here is a full size vertical array, 1500w, K3, a beverage
> for EU, a beverage for East Coast USA, and a beverage for West Coast
> USA/JA.  The station seems to transmit quite well.  Hearing, though, is a
> different problem.
>
> I spent this morning listening to the various noises on the 160M band, and
> I think I was able to reduce the local noise level some.  I won't know for
> sure until tonight, but my game plan has changed.
>
> I will be on for Europe around 0445Z; I expect transmit frequency to be
> 1805.5KHz or so, listening above 1810KHz.  I will either self/spot my Rx
> freq or announce "Up x".  Why so low?  I have less noise there.  Much of
> the local noise I have seems to peak around 1835, which makes Rx there not
> so good.
> If you can't transmit as low as 1811, please let me know and I'll modify by
> Rx frequency.
>
> When I am done with Europe- and it may not take long if I don't hear any
> Europeans- I will listen for USA.  I may go back to Europe from time to
> time but will announce it when I do so.
>
> That should cover it!  Good luck to all that need CX!
>
> Dennis W1UE/CX
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