Topband: KH1/KH7Z TopBand Ops Brief

[Dave Sharred]

George, I know you guys will have made the best efforts to optimise your tx capability,  I totally agree with your last comment too.
Hats off to you guys, over the years we know that you have given numerous new ones to many on 160m
73
Dave G3NKC 


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From: GEORGE WALLNER <aa7jv at atlanticbb.net> 
Date: 15/07/2018  01:06  (GMT+00:00) 
To: Dave Sharred <g3nkc at yahoo.co.uk>, Dave Sharred via Topband <topband at contesting.com>, uy0zg <uy0zg at mksat.net>, Peter Voelpel <dj7ww at t-online.de> 
Subject: Re: Topband: KH1/KH7Z TopBand Ops Brief 

Dave,The "Fat" TX antenna worked pretty well towards the N - NW. Also, by the early mornings I was able to turn up the TX power to 1400 W, as the other CW stations went off the air.So, Ukrain, while clearly at the edge, was entirely possible. Of course, I would have been very suspicious if I heard a G or EI calling... but I did not hear anything out of line.As you point out, the DX operator has no way to tell if somebody is listening via a remote receiver. Anyway, I think that anybody cheating, is primarily cheating himself.73,George  On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 10:12:15 +0100 Dave Sharred via Topband <topband at contesting.com> wrote:
   I have no axe to grind, I wasn't QRV. Hever,  Nick does raise a good point.First, if it is correct there is a small possibility of propagain around Sunset for Serbia and Ukraine, 20 minute window to Baker Is.   However, it's not really the dx season for EU to Pacific. With great respect the Baker Is. Topband system was compromised,  a 43ft fat vertical,  so an EU QSO must be optimistic at best.  If the EU guys had fantastic antennas, they may just be able to make the trip, with lots more power potentially too.   To me, if you are using a favourable located remote RX,  not in EU, that would not be a good QSO in my ethics.Further, since these things are available, it's not in my ethics to use remote tx/rx outside of your home country, to claim dx contacts.  Lastly, from the dx end, it's impossible to tell if the QSO is remote assisted or not, however, if it's outside of a real opening time, if I was the dx, I would delete the qso from my log as dubious 73 Dave G3NKC  (op at MD4K, PZ5K and others)  Sent from Samsung tablet  -------- Original message --------From: uy0zg <uy0zg at mksat.net>  Date: 14/07/2018  09:48  (GMT+00:00)  To: Peter Voelpel <dj7ww at t-online.de>  Cc: topband at contesting.com  Subject: Re: Topband: KH1/KH7Z TopBand Ops Brief   Peter, Peter....  We all know each other here ( in Ukraine).   Hard DX, such as KH1, can hear even in the season (autumn-spring) as a  whole several antennas - UR5AS, UR0MC, UX1UA ..  And now it's summer! July ..  Do not be children, gentlemen.   Nick,UY0ZG   Peter Voelpel писал 2018-07-14 11:17:

 It seems that nowadays there are many who believe that remote reception  was used by others when they were not able to work a dx station.  http://k9la.us/160m_Ducting_and_Spotlight_Propagation_revA.pdf  73 Peter, DJ7WW
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