Topband: Fwd: PQ0T active in 160

[Kees Nijdam]

Hi Felipe,

Nice story!
I was one of the lucky ones (with PA3FQA) and I even worked you twice, due 
to the up1, up2 etc confusion.
tnx,

Kees, PE5T

--------------------------------------------------
From: "PY1NB - Felipe Ceglia" <felipeceglia2 at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 12:52 PM
To: "Dick Grolleman" <groll064 at planet.nl>
Cc: "TopBand" <topband at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Fwd: PQ0T active in 160

> Hello folks,
>
> I was part of the ZY0T team on 2009.
>
> I bring a half wafe 160m dipole with commercial made ladder line with me. 
> I
> was not sure of what kind of supports where available.
>
> We had two stations running simultaneously, some hundreds of meters apart.
> One site was PY1ZV and PY1NB and on the other PY1YB and PY1ON.
> We set our station inside the navy's radio room, and the other was in the
> small house that the island staff  used to log data transmitted from
> meteorological balloons.
>
> Close to the radio room, there where 4 or so towers with nearly 15m 
> height,
> forming a square, but with nothing connected to them. All in very bad
> conditions, lots of rust everywhere, probably they have come down by now. 
> I
> had no guts to climb to the top, so I placed the apex of the dipole, in
> inverted vee configuration about 3/4 high.
>
> Wall to wall with the radio room was what they called "lan house", a room
> with cheap PC's in which the island crew used to get amused on the
> internet. Cheap PCs, cheap power supplys, lots of noise and birds running
> across low bands. Thats why I was frenetically asking UP1, UP2, UP3, DN5,
> DN4, etc. A rat and mouse thing. After everybody seemed to be gone, I 
> would
> go to the "lan house" and unplug all the PC's, but eventually someone 
> would
> come by and turn them on. Also, the radio was a FT857, which obviously did
> not help much.
>
> On the other station they had a huuuuge amount of noise whan the computer
> that received the meteo baloon data had to be turned on, rendering
> operation impossible. They borrowed one of such baloon and hanged a
> vertical from it. Not exacly over salt water, but close. They used it for
> some of the 80m QSOs. I regret I did not play with it, must have been fun.
>
> As I had not much expertise in topband by the time, I had no better
> insights. If I would do it again, I'd try to set up an inverted L as close
> as possible to salt water. Maybe try to set camp away from human made
> noise. Maybe bring a simple RX antenna and place it as far as possible to
> man made noise. Bring a better rig...
>
> That operation was not intended to be focused on topband, so I considered
> being on 160m a plus, and at the end, considering the operator's (me)
> expertise and setup, 100 QSOs was pretty a good figure, hihi.
>
> 73,
>
> Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> PR1T team member /// Rio DX Group member /// Araucaria DX Group member
> http://dxwatch.com /// http://reversebeacon.net /// http://riodxgroup.com
>
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Dick Grolleman <groll064 at planet.nl> 
> wrote:
>
>> ZY0T did work some 160m in October 2009.
>> 119 QSOs : EU 79; NA 32; SA 8
>>
>> I was lucky with that one.
>> Maybe ask PY1NB what he used for antenna on TB.
>> They were only on for 4 days.
>>
>> 73 de Dick PA3FQA
>>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- From: Steve HA0DU
>> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2015 7:16 PM
>> To: topband at contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: Topband: Fwd: PQ0T active in 160
>>
>>
>> Hopefully they do a better job on 160, than PP0T, who worked 6 stations
>> (including 3 Europeans) on 160 in about six weeks time...
>>
>>
>>
>> 2015.02.15. 18:34 keltezéssel, Felipe Fogagnolo írta:
>>
>>> PP5FF .
>>>
>>> I sent an email to Jaime PP5JD PQ0T operator, about activation in 160 .
>>>
>>> R:
>>> Hello Felipe , we will operate 160m , but little things as we would it
>>> ONLY 2 Nights , and When liver hum available Operator
>>>
>>> we will be a few hours p / week .
>>>
>>> WHEN speak in 80m , ask if we can do QSY p / 160 .
>>>
>>> 73, Jaime PP5JD
>>> _________________
>>> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> ---
>> Ezt az e-mailt az Avast víruskereső szoftver átvizsgálta.
>> http://www.avast.com
>>
>> _________________
>> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
>>
>> _________________
>> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
>>
> _________________
> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband