Topband: 3C0L

[Dave Chasey]

I got them on 160 last night as well.   They were loud but I was fighting significant QSB going between loud/solid copy and no copy at all within minutes.   He may have come back to me once or twice but I wasn't sure due to a QSB fade, then another time someone tuned on top of him but it would have been ESP if it was.    After about 45 minutes or so I gave up for a bit.   Went upstairs and did a few things and came back down 30 minutes or so later and got them solid within the next dozen or so calls.     

73,
Dave - N9FN

-----Original Message-----
From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of W0MU Mike Fatchett
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 10:04 AM
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: 3C0L

I would agree on the huge pileup and very very poorly behaved.  I guess people still can't copy their own calls.

He was decent copy and then would dive into the noise and come back.  I just got my 8 element circle back up but I am not sure it is operating right as sometime they were stronger on the Inverted L.

K0EU got them and maybe AA0RS but I didn't hear many others in the area get him.  I never did.

W0MU


On 10/17/2017 7:48 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
> 3C0L had superb signals on 160M last night and a ginormous pileup.
>
> Their signal started out an hour before my sundown, on my NE-facing 
> K9AY loop, but began showing QSB there an hour after my sundown. I 
> then checked and was surprised their signal was so much better on my transmit antenna.
> This is something I've noticed several times on African DXpeditions.
>
> I wonder if "Looking to the NE" makes sense before sundown because 
> this my shortest path to the most darkness, but the further after 
> sundown a more direct E or even southerly path makes more sense.
>
> Tim N3QE
>
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Victor Goncharsky via Topband < 
> topband at contesting.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry fat fingers, 3C0L, of course... great operation by two men crew 
>> with one dead K3!
>>
>>
>>> Вторник, 17 октября 2017, 7:41 UTC от Victor Goncharsky via Topband 
>>> <
>> topband at contesting.com>:
>>> Last night 3C0R have shown once again (remeber EP2A and S21ZED-E) 
>>> how 160
>> meter DX operation, this time from Africa, has to look like. Respect 
>> to Juris and Kaspars!
>>>
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