Topband: ARRL 160m

[EUGENE GABRY]

Saturday night was a washout on 160 for this station in middle TN. Gusty thunderstorms with high wind driven rains and heavy lightning. In addition to the storm noise, I have developed a bad power line transformer somewhere close by that only arcs when it rains heavy during storms. 160 and 80 were totally knocked out, 40 was somewhat workable with only the stronger DX signals. 
Friday night was a bit better, as the storms were not directly overhead, but lightning static made copy difficult. Never was able to hear any EU over the static crashes, but many Caribbean stations signals popped in over the static crashes. I was able to work PJ2T, KP2M, VP5K, TO4A, ZF5T and VP9I. Some with ease, some not so easy. Just happy to be able to get 6 DX entities into the log on 160! Still with the 6BTV with 132' parallel 160 inverted L wire at 6BTV feed.

Gene, N9TF
Clarksville TN
EM66IJ 
> On 02/18/2025 12:17 PM CST jon jones <n0jk at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I was on Saturday evening and noted strong signals from ZF5T, T48K and PJ2T.  They seemed to be having difficulty copying callers - perhaps high static. No luck with any of them with the rain gutter antenna this time.
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> Better antenna next time.  Jon N0JK
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>  Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:50:07 +0000 (UTC)
>  From: Andree DL8LAS
>  To: "topband at contesting.com"
>  Subject: Topband: ARRL 160m
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>  Hey Roger,?
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>  Friday night was good on topband,?
>  I worked 75x? NA in ARRL Contest,?
>  and this with only a simple RX BOG.
>  Saturday was not? much activity.?
>  My Call in ARRL was DR5X.
>  So, band was not? bad here.
>  73 Andy DL8LAS?
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