Topband: 7Q7

[Raymond Benny]

Lucky guys, not a peep so far on the West Coast.

If they stay a few more days, maybe we'll be lucky too...

Ray,
N6VR/W7YA


On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 11:39 AM Artek Manuals <Manuals at artekmanuals.com>
wrote:

> Tom
>
> I'm using a 470 foot E/W Beverage here  in Florida on receive and a 60'
> high "T"  with four 90' elevated radials for transmit (TS890/KPA1500) .
> The CW operation the first night was quite a QSB roller coaster and I
> had no success catching the right xmit frequency  with the peaks. The
> second night on FT8 I was a bit luckier finally logging them at 02:15
> though they were not as strong on average as the first night. For
> comparison a friend, 30 miles south of me who lives on an ocean access
> salt water canal only heard one decode all night on his 65' high
> inverted V ( He usually kicks my behind on 80M though)
>
> My sense is that the propagation favored the upper Midwest the first
> night and that Europe clearly had the edge the 2nd night, It did not
> seem to be all that many USA getting through.
>
> Dave
> NR1DX
>
>
>
> On 11/20/2020 12:28 PM, Drew Vonada-Smith wrote:
> > Tom,
> >
> > He was about S6 the other night in Kansas.  First heard 2330Z, but much
> better from 0010 to 0030Z.  I worked him at 0020Z in about ten calls.
> Antenna was an inverted L, and RX was a 650 ft Bev to the SE.  He was
> similar strength on the NE Bev as SE, but my noise level is much higher NE.
> >
> > 73,
> > Drew K3PA
> >
> >
> > Message: 5
> > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 18:12:07 +0000 (UTC)
> > From: Thomas Hoyer <thoyer1 at verizon.net>
> > To: "k2qmf2 at gmail.com" <k2qmf2 at gmail.com>,    "k2av.guy at gmail.com"
> >       <k2av.guy at gmail.com>
> > Cc: "topband at contesting.com" <topband at contesting.com>
> > Subject: Re: Topband: Wednesday CW DX Activity Night
> > Message-ID: <663192482.321269.1605809527860 at mail.yahoo.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> >
> > Would be interested in hearing (no pun intended) what type of antenna
> you, or anyone heraing the 7q7, are using
> > TomW3TA
> >
> >
> > ****************************************
> > _________________
> > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband
> Reflector
>
> --
> Dave Manuals at ArtekManuals.com www.ArtekManuals.com
>
> --
> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
> https://www.avast.com/antivirus
>
> _________________
> Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband
> Reflector
>