Topband: PLease!
Folks... when you reply to a post PLEASE do not include the entire digest in your reply just the message, or even better just the line or paragraph, that you are responding to. I could not find the new stuff inside all the old attachments in the last digest. Sorry to be a griper Not my usual cheery self today Mel KJ9C _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Remotes
For a number of reasons, I operate my regular Indiana QTH from here in Montana. Here we have CCRs that limit me to very low invisible stealth antennas and fewer bands, and being surrounded by mountains 2000 to 5000 feet higher does not help. So for DXCC purposes and for 160 meters I am in Indiana and give the QTH as IN. Since I started DXCC from Indiana years ago, I use the IN station to work new ones (only 5 to go). It's the same rig and antennas that I used to get this far in DXCC. When I do operate from Montana, puny signal that it is, it's for contests and CW Ops events (but no 160 meters here) and I hand out MT as the state and make a few folks happy for a new multiplier (if they can hear me). There's no question where I am in LOTW there's a log for each location, and I keep them separate. A ham checking LOTW for WAS will see our qso in the correct state. If remote operators take a few extra steps so there is no question as to their STATION location, the system works. However, I too have heard from very strong signals on 160 the wrong time of day without / identifiers. I'd guess that these folks would have cheated regardless of ARRL's actions. Mel KJ9C _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Topband: SP remote from DN45
Wish I had an antenna here in MT DN45 for 160, but that can't be. Second best option was to remote operate my station in EM69, even though I can't switch RX antennas remotely (Yet! That will change before next TBDC)... So I switched between the TX and the north beverage (the least directional and quietest) No DX this time, but I was LP and heard only J6 and KV4FZ, neither could hear me... Best was CN98 (a 6 pointer) - put 200 QSOs in the log... If the intenet connection would not have crashed six times I might have stayed a bit longer... (not sure if it failed in Indiana or in Montana, wasn't a problem when we operated W1AW/9 a few weeks ago)... another glitch to iron out before next contest Thanks again to the organizers and all who participated... there must hae been a number of QRP stations, or it sure seemed that way Mel KJ9C EM69 _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
