Topband: 160m Activity

[Paul Kiesel]

Last night was the best I've experienced on 160. Well, okay,
I haven't been on the band in any kind of seriousness until
recently, but still...

Gosh, when I tuned the band I almost immediately came
across OH0Z! Hearing Europe on CW is very rare for me.
Jim, W7FI, keeps watch on solar activity and alerted me
to the possibility of good propagation. Good thing I 
listened.

I worked 20 stations during the opening, the farthest was
in UA3... and I got him on CW! I worked eight new ones
last night.

Need more of that. Wish I had a better receive antenna. I
was told that I had a lot of callers on FT8 that my system
didn't decode.

73, 
Paul, K7CW


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On Fri, 10/19/18, VE6WZ_Steve <ve6wz at shaw.ca> wrote:

 Subject: Topband: 160m Activity
 To: "160 reflector" <topband at contesting.com>
 Date: Friday, October 19, 2018, 8:46 AM
 
 As Tree said in his post, last night Topband
 was very alive!
 
 Last night 54 EU made it into the VE6WZ
 log on TB. Just exceptional condx.
 20 min before my SS at 00:24z LA1MFA
 was the first in the log, and the band was jumping until I
 QRT at 0:600z.
 There were many "first time in my
 log” calls which was nice.  I guess everyone is not
 on FT-8!
 
 I am now TX on my new 2 el Parasitic
 array and it seems to be preforming well.  I think the
 extra 4 dB gain to EU is helping.
 I was RX diversity with the 1000’ EU
 Beverage and 9 circle RX array. The band was dead
 quiet…..I could almost "hear a pin drop”!
 
 Lets hope condx hold for a great winter
 season.
 
 73, de steve ve6wz.
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