Topband: VK6LR Kevin sigs 559-569 from 1111z-1145z this morning on 1821.4 (cw)

[David Olean]

Wow! All this juicy DX makes me want to steal the exciter out of my 
remote VHF shack and bring it back to the house so I can get in on some 
160 meter fun!  I have rigs set up on 6, 2, and 222 MHz. The 160 rig 
ended up on 2 meters for the summer.  I miss the DX on 160!

I have been out in the woods looking over my receiving wires and fixing 
things as I see them. I have two wires down at the moment, both victims 
to dead falling trees.  I use thick aluminum fence wire. If it breaks, I 
make splices with aluminum rod drilled with #8-32 s.s. hex screws to 
hold the aluminum wire.

73

Dave K1WHS

On 10/4/2020 8:34 AM, Joe Galicic wrote:
> I worked VK6LW with 100 watts at 11:33 Z this morning.  He was peaking nicely here at SC sunrise.  WOW, that was fun !
>
> I'm in the process of putting up antennas for 160 at my South Carolina QTH.  Inverted L with apex at 50 feet with 14 longish (75-100 feet) radials so far.  No RX antennas yet.  No amplifier at this QTH yet either.
>
> I heard other VK's over the past couple of mornings as well as JH1HDT this morning, I was surprised how strong HL5IVL was yesterday morning. I called several times but he did not hear me.  VK2WF got a partial call sign for me but we didn't make the QSO. He was very strong at my sunrise each morning I heard him.
>
> Getting ready for the upcoming 160 contest season.
>
> Fun stuff !!
>
> Joe
> N3hEE
>
>
>> On 10/04/2020 8:10 AM w3hkk at roadrunner.com wrote:
>>
>>   
>> worked Kevin on first call, simplex. He was in there pretty well from
>> 1111-1145z, although qsb at times took him into the noise, here in
>> central Ohio.
>>
>> Our Twilight-SR times today were 7:03 local- 7:30 local. or
>> 1103-1130z.
>>
>> A second VK6 was spotted but I never heard him.
>>
>> But those SR tables really work! His strongest sigs peaked right at SR
>> and were about the same for 19 mins before and 15 mins after SR.
>>
>> Heard a very faint JA but not well enough to call. Think it was HDT
>>
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