Re: Topband: ARRL WW DX-CW Contest at W3HKK - just dabbled on 160 here.
Same 160 conditions in Northern SM in KP04 64 deg north. Not much. First night ME and PE the only heard and worked. Nothing in saturday morning. Sunday morning 3 more worked with big difficulty. Big guns in MA CT NH. Heard a few more on sunday morning that did not hear me call. 2 stations in PA, one in ON and one in NC i called lots of times with no go. Closest was the NC station, got SM2?, but did now work. Too disturbed, heard nothing on NA beverage, but copied weak on SA beverage. 20m was another story, got an email from a station in Nevada that used 200 mW and got a QSO 73 Per SM2LIY (SM2M in ARRL) Från: Topband för uy0zg via Topband Skickat: den 21 februari 2023 19:10 Till: w3...@roadrunner.com Kopia: 'topband@contesting.com' ; Topband Ämne: Re: Topband: ARRL WW DX-CW Contest at W3HKK - just dabbled on 160 here. "Those are motivating numbers! You must have been might tired to fall asleep with so many callers. :) " The main thing is not quantity but quality :-) In addition, sometimes it took a long time to call the station. For example, I called VY2TT for 15 minutes and didn't get through... There were several other stations that didn't hear me. --- Nick, UY0ZG http://www.topband.in.ua w3...@roadrunner.com писал 2023-02-20 22:46: > Those are motivating numbers! You must have been might tired to fall > asleep with so many callers. :) > > I started on 160 but only worked a couple of Caribbean stations. > Nothing copied from EU so I migrated to 80 ( not much) then 40, and > finally to modulate the pillow. > > Last October I built a home brew 10M Moxon. using all left over > plastic and aluminum. Its an ugly looking, tilted/slightly twisted > thing ( holes drilled by "eye" and the eyes arent that accurate > anymore!) but it works like gangbusters. Its on a 15 ft mast on the > back patio, turned by the Armstrong Method. > > After an 8am start on 20m at my sunrise, I jumped to 10 since it was > almost as busy and has a lot more elbow room. Wound up with 479 qsos > in 11 hrs OTA, including 73 JA's, two DU's and one YJ plus a half > dozen VK/ZL, nine KH6's and 8 KL7's. Overall the northern latitudes > were ample, but not much from the equatorial regions or below. More > Russian/Ukrainian stations that in recent past. > > 10M kept me busy all morning and for two hours around sunset. I had > hoped to find more success on 160/80 and esp. on 40 into JA/VK - but > not much doing. > > The Moxon is so close to the shack that when I beam JA ( through the > shack) the rf keeps knocking my mouse offline, forcing me to pull the > usb plug out and then reinsert. It corrects the problem until I > transmit again. However I have better success when Im beaming EU, AF, > SA and due west to the Pacific. Something about JA but at least I > know the Moxon has some directionality. > > Speaking of JA ( and your music) I found a youtube video of Sing Sing > Sing, played by an all Japanese Big Band. Very enjoyable! Musicians > average age looked to be 65-70 but they were having fun! Complete with > a few beards goutees and snappy mustaches. All in white suits! > > > _ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: ARRL WW DX-CW Contest at W3HKK - just dabbled on 160 here.
"Those are motivating numbers! You must have been might tired to fall asleep with so many callers. :) " The main thing is not quantity but quality :-) In addition, sometimes it took a long time to call the station. For example, I called VY2TT for 15 minutes and didn't get through... There were several other stations that didn't hear me. --- Nick, UY0ZG http://www.topband.in.ua w3...@roadrunner.com писал 2023-02-20 22:46: Those are motivating numbers! You must have been might tired to fall asleep with so many callers. :) I started on 160 but only worked a couple of Caribbean stations. Nothing copied from EU so I migrated to 80 ( not much) then 40, and finally to modulate the pillow. Last October I built a home brew 10M Moxon. using all left over plastic and aluminum. Its an ugly looking, tilted/slightly twisted thing ( holes drilled by "eye" and the eyes arent that accurate anymore!) but it works like gangbusters. Its on a 15 ft mast on the back patio, turned by the Armstrong Method. After an 8am start on 20m at my sunrise, I jumped to 10 since it was almost as busy and has a lot more elbow room. Wound up with 479 qsos in 11 hrs OTA, including 73 JA's, two DU's and one YJ plus a half dozen VK/ZL, nine KH6's and 8 KL7's. Overall the northern latitudes were ample, but not much from the equatorial regions or below. More Russian/Ukrainian stations that in recent past. 10M kept me busy all morning and for two hours around sunset. I had hoped to find more success on 160/80 and esp. on 40 into JA/VK - but not much doing. The Moxon is so close to the shack that when I beam JA ( through the shack) the rf keeps knocking my mouse offline, forcing me to pull the usb plug out and then reinsert. It corrects the problem until I transmit again. However I have better success when Im beaming EU, AF, SA and due west to the Pacific. Something about JA but at least I know the Moxon has some directionality. Speaking of JA ( and your music) I found a youtube video of Sing Sing Sing, played by an all Japanese Big Band. Very enjoyable! Musicians average age looked to be 65-70 but they were having fun! Complete with a few beards goutees and snappy mustaches. All in white suits! _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m CW Activity Night
Hi Read the impressions: https://www.3830scores.com/showrumor.php?arg=2DalzKyaiymc0 " Not a single NA signal moved my S-meter. It felt like working EME on 144 MHz in old days. We moved our BEVs on a slightly different location(TNX S57AL, S53CC, S53BB and S55OO) but it was much noisier as before on CQ 160. TNX for QSOs." --- Nick, UY0ZG http://www.topband.in.ua Roger Kennedy писал 2023-02-21 10:52: Well conditions were pretty good over the weekend . . . So be good to see some DX activity this Wednesday night/Thursday morning. 73 Roger G3YRO _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: Wednesday 160m CW Activity Night
Well conditions were pretty good over the weekend . . . So be good to see some DX activity this Wednesday night/Thursday morning. 73 Roger G3YRO _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
