Propagation was really good for a short while on 160 this morning. JR7VHZ was running S7 to S9 and there were many US stations calling him. He was having QRN/QSB trouble on his end, but the band was very quiet here (I discovered later that my attenuator was on and the preamp was off!). Surprisingly, I got him on the third call and had to repeat my call for him a couple times as the E in W0EB kept getting lost in his QRN but it proves that you do NOT need high power on 160 to work DX. The antenna I used was an inverted L that has no radials under it. The vertical portion is only about 27 feet and the horizontal part slopes upward to about 35 feet to the top of a big pine tree in my front yard.
Now, if I could just break the East Coast KW barrier into Europe. A KPA500 would probably help a bit there - LOL. - ;) The L's broadside favors Japan and the Caribbean. The P3 really helped here too as I saw the spike when he first started calling CQ around 1812.4KHz. I had been calling CQ in RTTY on 1808.5 hoping to catch a quick QSO. Haven't heard any PSK on the bottom end of 160 yet, but I've worked several RTTY stations that hang out around 1808 or so. Jim - W0EB ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
