Topband: Baker Island DXpedition condx

[Bryon Paul Veal NØAH]

I have no doubt they will be successful on the lowbands with what should hopefully be an ambient free RF zone- Despite the short windows, and my guess 30M will be their best band, if you want to call that a lowband. I do- The greyline characteristics in crap conditions are well proven.   I only say this because I am comparing my experience on Lord Howe in April of 1998 VK9LZ one man DX’pedition. Condx sucked- With K=8, A up to 70+, and SF never broke 70.  I worked 30M across every greyline I had during my darkness- 40 was ok, 80 was poor, and I didn’t have a topband antenna. I only had daytime propagation on 17 and 20 meters North to JA, and a number of PAC islands, except one day 17M opened briefly to stateside.  30M was over 50% of my 2,432 QSO’s made in a week operating around 18-20 hours a day/night in a hut. Used a Cushcraft AP8A and no amp.  I am always surprised what 30m can do and I hope we see some fast rates on CW excluding the FT8 mess. Won’t be an ATNO for me, but will be interesting to see the topband results- It will certainly contribute to the better understanding TopBand propagation. I get FT-8, I really do- but just another means of taking away time from the pure essence of CW from 160M.



73  Paul  N0AH



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From: Topband <topband-bounces at contesting.com> on behalf of C Allen Baker via Topband <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2018 11:47:02 AM
To: topband at contesting.com; Jim Thomson; C Allen Baker
Subject: Re: Topband: Baker Island DXpedition on 160

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On Fri, 6/15/18, C Allen Baker via Topband <topband at contesting.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Topband: Baker Island DXpedition on 160
 To: topband at contesting.com, "Jim Thomson" <jim.thom at telus.net>
 Date: Friday, June 15, 2018, 12:45 PM

 Maybe CW till band worked dry.  Hope
 so.

 73, definitely working all the DC I can
 hear.

 Al,  W5IZ

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 On Fri, 6/15/18, Jim Thomson <jim.thom at telus.net>
 wrote:

  Subject: Topband: Baker Island
 DXpedition on 160
  To: topband at contesting.com
  Date: Friday, June 15, 2018, 11:47 AM

  Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:17:43 -0400
  From: GEORGE WALLNER <aa7jv at atlanticbb.net>
  To: David Cutter <d.cutter at ntlworld.com>,
  David Cutter via Topband
  <topband at contesting.com>,
  "'Roger Kennedy'"
  <roger at wessexproductions.co.uk>
  Subject: Topband: Baker Island
  DXpedition on 160

  >Hello TopBanders,
  >KH1/KH7Z will be active on 160
 from
  Baker Island from June 27 to July 6
  >(note that dates are tentative
 and
  may change -- please visit
  >http://baker2018.net/ for updates).GL
 and
  CU,
  >George,
  >AA7JV


  ##  How come no  FT8
  mode on 160 M ?   U list FT8 on
 all other bands,
  from  80-6m.

  Jim   VE7RF

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