Topband: End of Season, Spring Cleaning

[David Olean]

Hello Dave,

Well, I picked a good year to have my woods logged! I had to remove all 
of my beverage wires, so was off the air way back in early December. The 
woods have been logged, but it is a mess and needs some grading before I 
can start re assembling my 160 system.  The ground never froze very 
deep, so the skidder left some pretty mean ruts over 2 ft deep and lots 
of churned up mud. At 79+ years I am hopeful that I can re assemble 
things before I give up the ghost.  The loggers made mince meat of my 
feedlines, so I have to run all new cables. I had some of them in PVC to 
prevent animals from chewing them and that was ripped up too. (and I 
thought 160 would be easy!!)

73

Dave K1WHS

On 5/10/2024 12:00 AM, David Raymond wrote:
> Greetings Topbanders. . .
>
> Here at the conclusion of the topband season I have to say it was 
> right up there with the worst season I've experienced in my three plus 
> decades on Topband.  Propagation to both Europe and Asia was virtually 
> non-existent many days.  The only saving grace (at least here in the 
> Midwest/Iowa) was some decent propagation with our faithful VK friends 
> who hung in there providing us in NA with QSOs during their summer/QRN 
> months of the calendar.  Lastly, doing some spring cleaning today I 
> realized I have a spare DXEngineering 160m four square relay/phasing 
> box tested and returned from DXE still in the sealed shipping box I'd 
> like to part with.  If interested please contact me off line.
>
> Hope to see many of you at the Topband Dinner next week.
>
> 73. . . Dave, W0FLS
>
>
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