Topband: Strange propagation

[Joe]

I believe Tree's main point was the station in question was 2 hours after
sunrise at his qth on 160. I heard the same station.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Louis Parascondola via Topband <
topband at contesting.com> wrote:

> In the case of the RHR guys, they are constantly traveling to their remote
> locations doing tower and antenna work.  That's what they do.  Maintaining
> their system requires traveling and time.  Ray is about to get his pilot's
> license any day now and he will be flying out to his remote locations
> instead of driving.
>
>   Took me 2 hours to wire it
> all back together and be back up and running.  Who does it if the station
> is
> remote?
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Sawyer <sawyered at earthlink.net>
> To: topband <topband at contesting.com>
> Sent: Wed, Jan 13, 2016 8:08 pm
> Subject: Re: Topband: Strange propagation
>
> I am sure that this is someone remoting.  Nothing wrong with it, in my
> opinion. They can legally use their own call assuming they are licensed to
> be where they are, which isn't hard on 160M.  And its no different than
> someone operating from their second home which many ops do.  Its just way
> more efficient.  But isn't that our world today.
>
>
>
> Good news is that is activity on the bands and someone using the radio to
> DX.  How can we complain with that?
>
>
>
> It seems non-trivial to me as to how to maintain these remote stations.  I
> seem to frequently be going out at my place and fixing something.  The
> other
> day I discovered a massive tree branch had come down and ripped out the
> feed
> and some radial connections on my "omni" vertical for 160,  Luckily it
> didn't rip down the antenna out of the trees.  Took me 2 hours to wire it
> all back together and be back up and running.  Who does it if the station
> is
> remote?
>
>
>
> Ed  N1UR
>
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