Topband: Any Chinese stations with Big Sigs operating on 160?

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Wed Apr 3 05:20:33 EDT 2024


At N6RO's superstation (among other things, it was the antenna labo of 
ARRL Antenna Book Editor N6BV, who lives 100 miles away in the city of 
San Francisco), Ken patches lots of antennas to his operating position 
for 160M contests for use as RX antennas. The reason is simple -- the 
elevation, and even the horizontal direction at which signals arrive can 
vary widely with time, based on propagation.  Ken is a very smart 
engineer, and a bunch of very smart engineers and operators are on his team.

73, Jim K9YC

  On 4/3/2024 12:25 AM, Michael Tope wrote:
> I just occurred to me that my description of the receive situation at 
> W6UE is backwards. The 160 meter flat top dipole improved the 80 meter 
> receive noise floor from really deaf to pretty deaf. On 160 meters we 
> were just really deaf whether we listened on the 160 meter dipole or the 
> 80 meter inverted-vee




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