Topband: Fwd: PQ0T active in 160

[Lennart m]

Felipe, tks nice story. Only got you on 80...
Hope better luck next time!
73
Len
SM7BIC

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Från: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] För Kees Nijdam
Skickat: den 16 februari 2015 16:02
Till: PY1NB - Felipe Ceglia; Dick Grolleman
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Ämne: Re: Topband: Fwd: PQ0T active in 160

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

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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
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