Topband: Caribbean Operations On 160m?

[GEORGE WALLNER]

Tonight I will get on 160 at 0830 Z.
Will go to FT8 if there are no too few CW callers.

GL,



On Mon, 12 Aug 2024 17:41:32 -0700 Raymond Benny  wrote:
>George,
>
>I am patiently waiting for a 160m FT8 QSO. This morning, I was up at 2:30 am local and saw that N5J had called two CQ on 1.836 at 0900z with no replies. I got there 30 minutes too late!
>
>I know it's not productive to sit on 1.836 calling CQ all night and get only a few resposes. So, I'd like to ask if you could give us a time between, say, 0600z and 1300z, 11pm -6am West Coast time, so that we could look for N5J on FT8? 
>Another option would be to say you will call CQ on 1.836 on the hour, or half hour.
>
>I'll be 80 yo in a few months and getting up at odd dark hours is getting hard on the body...
>
>Thanks for understanding and for the other band QSOs.
>
>Ray,
>Arizona,
>N6VR - CW
>W7YA - FT8
>
>Oh, a 60m QSO would be nice too.
>
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>On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 5:22 PM GEORGE WALLNER <aa7jv at atlanticbb.net> wrote:
>>Steve,
>>40 m has been a problem at N5J. Often we have S9+20 dB over-the-horizon 
>>radar signal blanketing from 6.95 to 7.050 for hours at a time. We are 
>>considering operating at 7050, but that is very close to the FT8 
>>frequencies. We hope to find a break in the QRM to work NA.
>>
>>GL and 73,
>>George
>>N5J Team
>>
>>
>>
>>On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 18:46:31 -0700 Steve Harrison  wrote:
>>>Anybody know what the parameters or requirements for operating 160m from
>>>KG4/Guantanamo Bay are these days? Looking at my 160m worked list, I see
>>>that I'm missing one heck of a lot of Caribbean entities that should be
>>>like shooting fish in a barrel 8-D But we don't hear many of those guys
>>>too often, other than stalwarts like Kenny-KP4AA, KP4TF, and a few
>>>others. Yeah, I know: t-storm QRN can be horrendous, especially around
>>>hurricane season, out there. Still, once that's over, we still don't
>>>seem to hear too many of those "rarer" Caribbean entities on topband much.
>>>
>>>Another that I'd dearly-love to work is PY2RO; but the last several
>>>times I've heard him, although he was well above my noise floor and
>>>working JAs, he never responded to my calls (almost like trying to work
>>>9M2AX!).
>>>
>>>Right now, I'm waiting for N5J to show up on 40m CW, the last band I
>>>need them on. I saw them spotted a few days ago working JAs... four
>>>hours after my sunrise!
>>>
>>>Steve, K0XP
>>>
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