Topband: Condx last night

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

You had a decent signal for KH6.   Circle array here for RCV. band was 
pretty quiet here.  Worked all over the USA, very little DX.


On 2/24/2018 12:07 PM, cqtestk4xs--- via Topband wrote:
> My apologies for sounding like a lid last night.  Almost continuous static crashes made rx almost impossible with the exception of a couple of the big guns and W6/W7.  Short skip was definitely in play.  85% of the stations I worked were W6/W7.
>   
> Bill KH7XS
>   
>   
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Herbert Schoenbohm <herbert.schoenbohm at gmail.com>
> To: W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu at w0mu.com>; TopBand List <topband at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sat, Feb 24, 2018 6:42 pm
> Subject: Re: Topband: Does flooding radial field help
>
> The was certainly short skip within 300-400 miles and I work several
> Carribean station within that range.  However, the unusual part of that was
> an Italian who kept calling CQ where is was calling CQ and was S9 on the EU
> Beverage. I never even got a QRZ from him. I had to null him out with the
> NCC-1 just to work any states.  I worked a few in the southeast but nobody
> even spotted me for the entire night except for one NY station with good
> ears. I have come to the realization that 100 watts under conditions like
> this are futile.
>
> Herb, KV4FZ
>
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 2:26 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu at w0mu.com> wrote:
>
>> It was conditions and it was SSB!  I could not hear PJ4G last night. The
>> only DX that was "loud" was ZF2.
>>
>> W0MU
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2/24/2018 10:07 AM, Jack Henry via Topband wrote:
>>
>>> I was struggling to be heard in the contest last night.  Only 4 stations
>>> were worked and they needed repeats.  All readings in the shack were normal
>>> and I was hearing many stations with moderate signals.  The only thing that
>>> was different was that we were irrigating the grass.   The grass is
>>> irrigated by flooding from a small canal that is on the edge of the
>>> property.  The canal is fresh water fed from an Andean river.  There was
>>> about a quarter of an inch of water visible over the mowed grass.  I am
>>> wondering if the water is effecting the antenna performance.
>>>
>>> I do not have a super station and only run 800W.  The antenna is a 45
>>> foot vertical T loaded at the top.  There are 32 radials 60 to 80 feet in
>>> length of different type wires.  All are insulated with various materials
>>> and are buried about an inch below the soil level.
>>>
>>> Anyone have any experience or knowledge on this.  The soil is drying now
>>> in the blistering sun so maybe we will see if there is any improvement
>>> tonite.
>>>
>>> Thanks. Jack OA4TT
>>>
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