Topband: VP6A

[GEORGE WALLNER]

Thank You, Ray,
George,


On Sat, 24 Jun 2023 20:47:41 -0700 Raymond Benny  wrote:
>Hello Robin,
>Hear you call two nights ago on CW. I worked George a few minutes later.
>Now have 5 acres here in AZ to grow antenna and they seem to work. QTH is
>quiet too.
>
>
>George,  thanks for the FT8 qso last night with W7YA, 3:30 am, with my AZ
>call I use on FT8.  That makes 9 bands.
>
>73,
>
>Ray,
>N6VR/W7YA
>
>On Fri, Jun 23, 2023, 3:06 PM m.r.c. <mrc02 at kinderteacher.com> wrote:
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>
>>Hi George
>>I could hear you well enough on 1827.5 to ID over my city lot S8 noise inSoCalif, but no chance you would hear my 100 watts and a random wire
>>The guys fussed at me when I added a dozen full length radials to theTitanex -we already had about 8 -  it was up on the hard pan of the lava bed notdown atthe water.
>>and we had stagger paired 1000 ft beverages that made it work like a 5elementbeam -  and in the MUCH better part of the solar cycle.
>>I don't think getting the radials into the water would be of any benefit -justfull length so that the RF current had someplace to flow with the shortradiator..
>>thanks for making this possible.  Its a huge improvement over the monsterinfrastructure we had to set up.   More antenna of course is alwaysbetter, butnot having to build and maintain living and operating quarters is anincredibleimprovement- even to just operator fatigue - we had 7 stations and only 12ops
>>73
>>RobinWA6CDR/VP6DX
>>----- Original Message -----From: "GEORGE WALLNER" <aa7jv at atlanticbb.net>To: <topband at contesting.com>Sent: Friday, June 23, 2023 10:12Subject: Re: Topband: VP6A
>>>I was on 1827.5 from 0200 and form 0930 but there very very few callers.Most>signals that I've copied were just barely above the noise.> Apart form the lack of activity and high QRN in the northern hemisphere,we> have very poor ground at the antenna. We put out a lot of radials butcould> not connect directly to the salt water.>>> Anyway, this is not a good time for TB here.> 73,> George>>>> On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 05:33:45 -0700 Wes  wrote:>>I saw this when I got out of bed at 1000Z  :-)>>>>Not that it mattered.  One peep was about all I heard. Saw you spottedon 60>>but nothing seen. That's okay, worked you on 6/20.>>>>Still need 10 and 40 SSB too to fill my Bingo card.>>>>Wes  N7WS>>>>On 6/22/2023 9:12 PM, GEORGE WALLNER wrote:>>>>>I will start around 0930.>>>GL,George>>>>>_________________>>Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband>> - Topband Reflector>>>>
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