Topband: V84SAA SR report 15 Feb - ANd final schedules of operation

[Joe Reisert]

Hi Mike,

Jeff said they had preamp problems yesterday and are working on a fix.

73, Joe, W1JR


On 2/15/2019 6:06 AM, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:
> Jeff,
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> You guys had a good signal on 80m y'day at NA Maritime/New England SS (your
> SR). LP to the SE from here.
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> AFACT, the 80m op did not ask for NA (a shame) and continued to work EU all
> the way through greyline.
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> Just at my SS -5mins and for at least 30mins afterwards, until just after
> your SR, the LP opening\
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> was good to very good(at times).  First signals peaked on 80m, then suddenly
> the 160m signals were much better than 80m for about 20mins.  Crazy.
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> There were LOTS of guys from NA calling you on 160m.(mostly W1/2 and me) It
> was speaker quality Jeff
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> and definitely 419-519 (saw the S-meter actually move a few times-others
> reported much louder signals).
> 
> Some reports on the on4kst chat, and lots of (frustrated) callers, hi hi ! I
> should've recorded it, but was out snowblowing and raced in prior to SS and
> forgot all about it. It was so good, had there not been any QRM, I am sure I
> could've carried on a QSO. Anyways..with an inverted L on 160m I am not
> surprised from my end.  At one point, I thought it may have been a slim..
> ..
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> I suspect some one way prop or something . You CQ'd in our faces (hi hi)
> many times. :-O
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> A couple claimed to have worked you, but due to occasional QRM on your TX
> freq I cannot say whether
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> you actually did or not.
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> Fingers crossed!
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> Keep up the good work.
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> Mike VE9AA
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> Yesterday it looks like 203 additional qso's were made on Topband.  Condx
> were
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> good to NA from 1025z - 1100z - but rather poor later into EU.
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> We did manage to work 33 qso's into NA during the SS opening - after 1100z
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> signals drop rapidly though (like a rock) - so it is best to be there BEFORE
> we
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> go into darkness.  We have seen this for several days now - and while there
> are
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> guys still hearing us and calling us - we just cannot decipher the calls
> after
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> 1100z - they are about RST 119 at best after 11z.   Once SR occurs in W5 W7
> and
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> W6 - signals get loud enough again to have a chance to figure out a
> callsign.
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> GL to all
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> there are 4 more chances to work us from NA - 2 on SS and 2 on SR
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> Most of us depart on the 18th in the Am - so teardown is set for all day on
> the
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> 17th  -our  last operations  160m will likely end at SR our time on the
> 17th.
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> 73 JEFF
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> Mike, Coreen & Corey
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> Keswick Ridge, NB
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Joe Reisert
Amherst, NH