Topband: Baker Island DXpedition condx

[Wes Stewart]

According to the latest Clublog DX Report, 20-meters is still the money band; 
34% of all reported contacts made during the last 7 days were on 20.  Of those, 
41% were DX contacts.  Second was 40-meters.  Thirty meters was actually fourth, 
behind 6-meters.

Wes  N7WS


On 6/15/2018 11:02 AM, Bryon Paul Veal NØAH wrote:
> 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.
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