Topband: Working Europe

[Mike Waters]

Great idea, Jim!!!

As others have said, there are simple ways of telling whether the band is
open and to where. That's the time we should be calling CQ, even if there
are no other signals. We might just get something started.

I lost one of the two elevated radials (neighbor's cows and/or falling
branches), and I haven't been on 160 in some months. You might just be
lighting a fire under me to get back on 160.

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 6:22 PM, James Rodenkirch <Rodenkirch_LLC at msn.com>
wrote:

> Mike: I would posit we - the "top band community" - need to promote
> increased operations ---------- fuggedabout "decent rx antennas" --- just
> get more hams operating on top band:
>
> - emphasize the Maunder minimum
> - emphasize the rise of efficiency of small lot antennas, as a resulting
> "benefit"
> - emphasize the benefits of a new low band rcv arrays
>
> It's about encouraging hams to explore top band, as the "minimums" descend
> on us.....not, necessarily, encouraging "ultimate stations" --- i.e., get
> 'em on the band......
>
> 71.5/72 de Jim Rodenkirch K9JWV
>
> Guy said:
>
> >There is the issue of when people are actually listening on 160. *Sounds*
> dead because no one is there.
>
> ...AND THEN there is the issue of when people *can* actually listen; by
> that I mean, they have a decent rx antenna at their disposal.
>
> I've noticed quite a few locals (W1) with increasing interest in 160. The
> low-space rx antenna options out there are attracting interest. This is
> good. Bring on the minimum.
>
> Mike N1TA
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