Topband: Promoting CW Activity.

[Richard Thorne]

George,

Thanks for the qso on 160 this morning.

We worked twice.  I called the 2nd time as you were very loud, 599+. 
Conditions were very quiet on the 1/4 wave sloping vertical.  My receive
array is not on line and there was no need for it.

Rich - N5ZC

On 9/30/2024 2:20 PM, GEORGE WALLNER wrote:
> TopBand is certainly open.
> From E51D I worked EA8 last night shortly after my SS. Later, from
> about 10:00 Z most NA signals were S6 to S7, including East Coast
> stations. Felt more like 80 m, but slower. Still, worked around 80
> stations in 2 hours. It was a good night for TB.
>
> George,
> AA7JV
>
>
>
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:12:46 +0100 "Roger Kennedy"  wrote:
>> There is an email circulating around Top Band DXers, asking us to try
>> and
>> encourage more CW activity . . . so I said I would post on here (as
>> this is
>> something I have always tried to do).
>>
>> The problem is that if nobody comes on the band and puts out a call,
>> many
>> people presume that there is no Propagation. This is made worse if
>> all you
>> do is look at the DX Cluster, or look at your Waterfall Display.
>>
>> I also know that some people only ever come on the band to work some
>> rare
>> Prefix or DX-pedition . . . but that is such a waste of a decent 160m
>> setup!
>>
>> However, there are many of us that get a buzz out of working ANY DX (no
>> matter how often we may have worked that station before) . . . and DX on
>> 160m is really anything over 3,000 miles away.
>>
>> Top Band is certainly now open for DX most nights, certainly for
>> those of us
>> in the Northern Hemisphere . . . there 's just so little activity (it
>> gets
>> boring just looking at your signal reports on RBN!)
>>
>> So come on guys . . . a lot of you put a lot of trouble into having
>> decent
>> Tx and Rx aerials for Top Band . . . what's the point in all that
>> effort if
>> you never come on the band ?!
>>
>> 73 Roger G3YRO
>>
>>
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