Topband: Small Loop does not receive weak signal on 160m BOUVET RX SPOILER

[Wes]

Thanks Charlie for the insight.  I just rewatched the video of your expedition.  
Very cool, no pun intended.   Sorry I wasn't a topband guy back then. Just 
worked you guys on 20 CW and SSB.  I worked FB8XV in 1979, also on 20 SSB.

Did you have RX antennas that allowed you to work through the snow storms?  Here 
in AZ we can draw an ac in a PL259 in a dust storm.

Wes  N7WS

On 12/23/2022 10:03 PM, n0tt1 at juno.com wrote:
> I was one of the 160m ops at "nearby" FT5XO.  I can tell you that when
> the
> WX was good the TX antennas worked very well for receiving.  When the
> WX turned bad, such as during the snow storm we worked through, the 160m
> TX antennas
> were very noisy....just as noisy as those anywhere on the planet.
>
> Don't get me started about those awful 160m fishing buoy transmitters!!
>
> 73,
> Charlie, N0TT