Topband: Topband Digest, Vol 241, Issue 13

[Mamuka Kordzakhia]

 Dear friends,
I need your advise: I found a very high tower with 100m high. I need to fix a very effective antenna on 160m band. What kind of antenna will be better for contesting?
73!
Mamuka4L2M 
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Today's Topics:

  1. Re: spot (Tree)
  2. Re: Conditions Improving? (kq2m at kq2m.com)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 07:50:51 -0800
From: Tree <tree at kkn.net>
To: STEVE MCDONALD <ve7sl at shaw.ca>
Cc: Steve London <n2icarrl at gmail.com>, Paul Mcl <paul.mcl at gmail.com>,
    Topband <topband at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: spot
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I used to live near Granada Hills - not near an ocean.

I guess he could have a remote station somewhere - but again, 1:30 PM in
SoCal is a no go.  I can't imagine where someone would have a big rhombic
near an ocean in SoCal with much of an advantage towards Europe.

Reminds me of a story - back when W6RW was active on the band.  This is
probably around 1975 or so.  The Southern California DX Club used to have
quite a bit of activity on 2 meter FM - perhaps a repeater, I forget.

Someone started bootlegging European calls around noon local time and W6RW
was buying it.  He had a lot of fun talking about this rare opening at
noon.  I think eventually, he was convinced someone was pulling his chain
and he stopped.

Tree N6TR

On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 6:48 AM STEVE MCDONALD <ve7sl at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Highly unlikely at 1:30 in the afternoon in California.
>
>
> > 160m on 24Nov22 @ 2130Z
>
> >
> > I emailed to ask if he was transmitting from CA per his QRZ.com details
> and
> > he confirmed that was correct and he was using a large rhombic by the
> > ocean.  Both contacts are confirmed in LoTw as California.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Paul MM0ZBH
> >
> > On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 at 23:31, <ke9et199 at charter.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Interesting spot......? 2324Z 1.832.? TN8K DL3DXX wkd
> > > NM6V,W6AEA,WB6CJT big remo Republic of the Congo (TN)
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2023 10:50:01 -0600
From: kq2m at kq2m.com
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Conditions Improving?
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Good cndx no surprise - the K index dropped to 0 for a few hours and 
then stayed at k=1.
TN8K was audible here for several hours in and out, with long and deep 
fades but peaking briefly ~ 569, and definitely favoring stations in the 
Mid-western, Western and Southern US.  I'm using an Inv L with 3 
elevated radials so signal strengths were certainly better at the 
serious 160 stations.  I also heard a lot of EU stations work TN8K most 
of which were < 559.

Maybe 160 ops should complain about cndx more often?  LOL!

73

Bob, KQ2M



On 2023-01-09 08:03, Roger Kennedy wrote:
> Ironic that after complaining how poor DX Propagation has been for the 
> past
> few weeks, they were quite reasonable from around 0300Z last night . . 
> .


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