Topband: Promoting CW Activity.

[Raymond Benny]

George, I worked you this morning at 1012z. You were Q5 with QRN  & QSB.
Good copy, 569.
I'll be waiting for you on 160m FT8 when ever you show up.
I need E5/N on 160m FT8 with W7YA.

Ray,
N6VR, CW
W7YA,  FT8

On Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 1:07 PM GEORGE WALLNER <aa7jv at atlanticbb.net> wrote:

> Richard,
> Thanks for the report, which is much appreciated. I am testing a new
> antenna. Extra "bird friendly" only 38 feet tall. Seems to get out.
>
> TKS and 73,
> George
>
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:23:20 -0500 Richard Thorne  wrote:
> >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, fromabout 10:00 Z most NA signals were S6 to S7,
> including East Coaststations. Felt more like 80 m, but slower. Still,
> worked around 80stations 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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