Topband: 160 meter opening

Wed Nov 13 14:33:50 EST 2019

Guys, check you computers, 160M RFI may have triggered "Morse Runner" and you were working yourself hi hi
It is amazing how being 3-400 miles more north opens you to EU more often 

Rick N6PE

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Today's Topics:

  1. a "WZ" kind of night (Larry)
  2. Few questions about RX Ant preamps (Edward stallman)
  3. Re: 160m Conditions Last Night (Artek Manuals)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 07:10:51 +0000 (UTC)
From: Larry <pacer99 at aol.com>
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Topband: a "WZ" kind of night
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got home late, around 0630z and caught a huge EU opening at their sunrise. logged 16 EU in 20 minutes. yes!
finally the skip comes to the southern west coast. happy me.
larryn7dd

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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 06:08:00 -0600
From: Edward stallman <ed.n5dg at gmail.com>
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Topband: Few questions about RX Ant preamps
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Looking at the W7IUV preamp kit sold here 
http://www.mtmscientific.com/preamp.html
<http://www.mtmscientific.com/preamp.html>

I would like to place the preamp at the RX Antenna (YCCC 9 Circle ) 
because of the 450 Ft of RG6 from ant to shack . The W7IUV preamp is 50 
ohm so not sure if it's ok to use at the Ant? Or if I'll be just fine 
using the preamp in the shack after the 75 to 50 Ohm transformer ?

Can the input and output be easily changed from 50 to 75 Ohm ?

Does anyone sell a RX Preamp with 75 Ohm in/ output ? Need IP3 of 30dbm 
or better .. I know DXE has a nice preamp but it's designed to add other 
boards that I don't need .

Thanks Ed N5DG

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 09:09:09 -0500
From: Artek Manuals <Manuals at ArtekManuals.com>
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: 160m Conditions Last Night
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Here in the deep south we generally don't get the kind of 160M openings 
to EU that you enjoy up north, the price we pay for not freezing to 
death when the lights go out and being able to work on our antennas year 
round, I lived in NH and MN? for 15 years before moving back to FL so I 
know first hand the joy of shoveling snow and being able to work EU when 
your 1000 miles closer to them than we are down south. Down here we are 
lucky? hear 3 or 4 EU stations on a good night regardless of the mode.

Then last night something extraordinary ( the night after Doug's report) 
. I went out to the shack @0200Z? to turn things off before going to bed 
. There was HA7TM calling CQ and the computer reminded me that while I 
had worked him on many bands but that I needed him on 160M to fill out 
my dance card. A few minutes later he was in the log and no other? EU 
stations were copied (YAWN)? .. then as I reached for the big switch I 
was called by R6YY. What happened next I suspect is what if sometimes 
referred to as? "pipeline propagation" . Stations from NW Russia lined 
up and started calling me sometimes 3 stations deep. When the dust 
settled I had worked 15 Russians, 2- SM's, an OH and a SP, all in the 
span of about 30 minutes. You would think my call sign was VP6R . During 
this mini pile up NO OTHER EU stations were heard. No DL's, no F's, no 
G's no I's ..... just UA's . One of the 3rd most memorable nights in my 
TOP-Band life-time spanning nearly 50 years

To fill in the scenario for the curious, I was running about 800 watts 
to a 60' T wire vertical, with three 90' above ground radials. And a 
200' BOG to the NE on receive. Modes used were both CW and FT8

Dave NR1DX
dit dit

On 11/11/2019 12:37 PM, Doug Renwick wrote:
> Very good over the pole real ham radio (cw) conditions from Northern 
> Europe
> last night in west NA. Some stations had amazing signals; a few of the
> strongest were LY7M, YL2SM and LA1MFA.
>
> Doug
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