Topband: ZF5T

[Marshall Toburen]

Is that the same set up you used on 80m?  You had the loudest signal on 80m
coming out of the Caribbean!

73, AA0FO

On Mon, Dec 1, 2025, 4:42 PM Joel Harrison <w5znjoel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> It is a 78 Ft tower with 2 triband Yagi’s shunt fed with a few radials.
> It’s about 50 feet from the waters edge.
>
> Stan K5GO has considered putting up a 160 meter vertical closer to the
> water but the shunt fed tower has performed extremely well in past contests
> and DX’ing so we haven’t changed what’s working!!
>
> 73 Joel W5ZN / ZF2ZN
>
> > On Dec 1, 2025, at 4:16 PM, Mike Fulcher <mikekc7v at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Joel,
> >
> > What is the antenna there for 160?  You were loud here in Phoenix.
> >
> > Mike KC7V
> >
> >> On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM jon jones <n0jk at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Great score Joel at ZF5T on 160 Meters!
> >>
> >> The geomagnetic field was active during the CQ WW CW with storm
> conditions
> >> Friday evening. And with thunderstorm QRN Saturday evening it made for
> >> challenging conditions from the Caribbean on the Topband.
> >>
> >> 810 contacts in 75 countries is amazing in light of this.
> >>
> >> 73 — Jon N0JK
> >>
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> >>
> >> Message: 1
> >> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 13:13:18 -0500
> >> From: Joel Harrison <w5znjoel at gmail.com>
> >> To: uy0zg <uy0zg at mksat.net>
> >> Cc: Kenny Silverman <kenny.k2kw at gmail.com>, Topband
> >>        <topband at contesting.com>
> >> Subject: Re: Topband: TK0C skimmer on 160
> >> Message-ID: <337A31EC-8E87-4D52-8EFA-7809E6235A64 at gmail.com>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> >>
> >> Hi Nick,
> >>
> >> I was the 160 meter op at ZF5T. Thanks for the Q and glad to put you in
> >> our log.
> >>
> >> Condx from ZF Friday evening to EU were very gud but around 0330z to
> 0400z
> >> the band went pretty much dead to EU. There was no EU SR peak.
> >>
> >> Saturday around 0130z we had horrible QRN from a storm somewhere in the
> >> Caribbean that made copy on 160 and 80 near impossible. It calmed down
> >> around 0300z but condx were very bad to EU and sigs weak.
> >>
> >> To the west our furthest contact was with KH6J and one other station on
> >> Hawaii but that was it. No JA?s or anything else. We had JA?s spotted on
> >> the cluster but they were being picked up by a JA skimmer.
> >>
> >> Overall it was a good weekend but could have been great with some better
> >> condx and no QRN during the Saturday evening session. We finished with
> 810
> >> Q?s, 18 Zones, and 75 countries on 160 from ZF for the weekend.
> >>
> >> 73 Joel W5ZN / ZF2ZN
> >>
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