Topband: K5P 160m run

[Mark K3MSB]

I emailed the East Coast pilot station this morning inquiring about the 80M
situation, and said I had heard that they may be having 80M TX problems.

Don was kind enough to respond, and said "It seems they do",  and that they
are receiving OK.

Lot of chomping at the bit to work them on 80M (myself included) !!

73 Mark K3MSB









On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 1:27 PM, George <w8uvz at voyager.net> wrote:

> Guys
>
> They have a BCS which is what they are using on 160.  The BCS also has 80
> m capability but that trap shorted so it isn't working on that band.
>
> But the BCS wasn't to be their main 80 m antenna, anyway.  They were gg to
> use a Steppir vertical, as I recall.  I haven't heard there is a problem
> with the latter but the 80 m sigs seem to be weaker than expected.
>
> They are a resourceful bunch of ops so I would expect plenty of 80 m
> action from some antenna.
>
> GL
>
> 73  George  W8UVZ
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Tim Shoppa
> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 10:32 AM
> To: Art Snapper
> Cc: KD8RQE at aol.com ; 160
> Subject: Re: Topband: K5P 160m run
>
>
> They had huge signal on 160M here in W3 last night.
>
> On 80M... my unconfirmed suspicion is that they have one ?Battle Creek
> Special? and maybe one ?lowband receive system?, and cannot activate both
> 160M and 80M simultaneously with the good stuff.
>
> Right now the stats in clublog say they 120 in zone 3 on 160M, but only 23
> in zone 3 on 80M.
>
> They certainly had the good stuff on 160M last night! Their signal was
> entirely comparable to that E5 activation in October on that first
> exceptional morning.
>
> Tim N3QE
>
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Art Snapper <art at nk8x.net> wrote:
>
> I was surprised how much stronger they are here on TB than on 80.
>>
>> Art NK8X
>>
>> ᐧ
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Mike via Topband <
>> topband at contesting.com
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>> > What a run K5P has had on 160 the last 2 nights!  I run an inverted L
>> with
>> > the vertical portion up 65" and 90 radials of which 60 are 120'.  It's
>> not
>> > a bad Tx ant, but not so hot on Rx, and I need a bit better Wx to put up
>> > the  Hi-Z array I bought.  I usually hear stations in the pacific for >
>> 30-
>> > 60
>> > min  before my sunrise here in the black hole of DX in southern Michigan
>> > and
>> > they are  only workable for 15-30 min.  These guys were workable for
>> hours
>> > prior to  my sunrise (worked them @ 0530 EST, 1030Z, 2.5h before >
>> sunrise,
>> > 550
>> > W) and  I heard them for an hour after when most stations fade within
>> > minutes after  sunrise.  Impressive.
>> >
>> > Mike KD8RQE
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