Topband: RI1ANF worked using Inv L FCP
Just a quick note..last night around 0100 Jun 12 I worked RI1ANF using the K2AV Inv L / FCP combo! He came back to me on first call but I was not 100% sure due to deep QSB. Being unsure about the first QSO ...17 mins later I called again and likewise a reply on first call. I see I am in the log twice for a new one #181 I am completely amazedI was running 400watts to try and keep the 3800 from crashing as my wife was watching TV! His log is available at .not searchable just scan the listings. http://www.hrdlog.net/ViewLogbook.aspx?user=RI1ANF Theses are early days for me using the K2AV FCP on my L and never have I worked a new country on Topband in June!..This thing really works.! Thank you Guy. 73 Frank VO1HP Pictures at vo1hp.ca Sent from an iPad2 Sent from an iPad2 ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Topband: RI1ANF on Topband
On 6/11/2012 1:02 PM, Mike Waters wrote: On another subject, you may be able to hear RI1ANF (South Shetland Islands) after dark. I've heard him to the SSE the past two nights on 1826.5 through the lightning QRN. K3JJG in PA was copying him better than I was. This would be a great application for JT65A, which could allow many NA stations to work him. The traditional way to call someone on JT65A is to zero-beat them on the waterfall. The better way to call a DX station is to NOT zero beat them, but rather to spread out like a split pileup. Since the window is about 2.7 kHz wide, a JT65 signal is about 220 Hz wide, and signals can be decoded with some overlap, at least a dozen signals can simultaneously call and be decoded. JT65A activity on 160M is from about 1838.5 - 1841.2, transmitting by feeding a USB transmitter with a carrier of 1838 kHz. The software of choice is JT65-HF. It is freeware, well documented in a pdf, and very easy to use. A QSO typically takes 5-6 minutes to complete. 73, Jim K9YC ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
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Since the window is about 2.7 kHz wide, a JT65 signal is about 220 Hz wide, and signals can be decoded with some overlap, at least a dozen signals can simultaneously call and be decoded. Jim is slightly optimistic. The nominal audio frequency for the JT65A software is 1270.5 Hz and the window is +/- 1000 Hz (see: pg 35, JT65-hf-setup.pdf distributed with the JT65HF package by W6CQZ). In practice most transceivers do not work very well in the bottom 200 Hz or so of the window due to IF filter roll-off leaving room for 8 to 10 signals maximum. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 6/11/2012 4:21 PM, Jim Brown wrote: On 6/11/2012 1:02 PM, Mike Waters wrote: On another subject, you may be able to hear RI1ANF (South Shetland Islands) after dark. I've heard him to the SSE the past two nights on 1826.5 through the lightning QRN. K3JJG in PA was copying him better than I was. This would be a great application for JT65A, which could allow many NA stations to work him. The traditional way to call someone on JT65A is to zero-beat them on the waterfall. The better way to call a DX station is to NOT zero beat them, but rather to spread out like a split pileup. Since the window is about 2.7 kHz wide, a JT65 signal is about 220 Hz wide, and signals can be decoded with some overlap, at least a dozen signals can simultaneously call and be decoded. JT65A activity on 160M is from about 1838.5 - 1841.2, transmitting by feeding a USB transmitter with a carrier of 1838 kHz. The software of choice is JT65-HF. It is freeware, well documented in a pdf, and very easy to use. A QSO typically takes 5-6 minutes to complete. 73, Jim K9YC ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
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On 6/11/2012 2:51 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: Jim is slightly optimistic. The nominal audio frequency for the JT65A software is 1270.5 Hz and the window is ± 1000 Hz (see: pg 35, JT65-hf-setup.pdf distributed with the JT65HF package by W6CQZ). Joe is right -- it's 2 kHz wide. Thanks for the correction. 73, Jim K9YC ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Re: Topband: RI1ANF
Antarctic Continent is a bit difficult these days. I have a few contacts in the 80s - 90's, but pretty skimpy from year 2K. I did work VP8CTR in Feb 1998 but didn't note the QTH. I never sent for the card. Any ideas on the QTH? 73 George W8UVZ I'm pretty sure DP1POL was active on TB in 2010. I worked him on 80, 40 and 30m and seem to remember he had 100w on TB? Jeff W7JW -Original Message- From: Herb Schoenbohm Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 4:55 PM To: g...@ka1j.com Cc: Topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: RI1ANF You have me excited for a moment as I need Antarctica on 160. I have already worked South Orkney, South Shetland, Falklands, Bouvet and Peter I on TB but for some reason Antarctica has just not been there for me even though there are always active hams there. Maybe I worked some other operation there years ago but never entered the call as a new onebut there must be some operation on TB from Antarcticalike I mean just tie some insulated wire on a snow cat and lay it on the snow. Drive north for a half a mile.and put in a 600 ohm non inductive resistor and drive another 135 feet for a Beverage self termination without a ground connection and you should be able to hear everything that comes on the band from NA during the long periods of darkness when they go into real winter. Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ 5/31/2012 12:18 PM, Gary Smith wrote: Thanks to some off list replies My logging program (which means me as well) is apparently incorrect and this is a south shetland Q. Though I liked the idea of it being Antarctica as my father as a young ham made contact with Byrds expedition. However, I also need South Shetlands on TB so I'm still most happy. Thank you for the correction! Gary KA1J What a surprise to hear Antarctica last night. Apparently the band has some nice unexpected gems to be found on it here in Connecticut. Gary KA1J ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
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My card says Ukrainian Antarctic Station, operator Roman, UX1KA. He was on Galindez Island. It is strange to me that they got a VP8 call. 73 N7RT - Original Message - From: George w8...@voyager.net To: Jeff w...@arrl.net; Topband@contesting.com Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 7:36 PM Subject: Re: Topband: RI1ANF Antarctic Continent is a bit difficult these days. I have a few contacts in the 80s - 90's, but pretty skimpy from year 2K. I did work VP8CTR in Feb 1998 but didn't note the QTH. I never sent for the card. Any ideas on the QTH? 73 George W8UVZ I'm pretty sure DP1POL was active on TB in 2010. I worked him on 80, 40 and 30m and seem to remember he had 100w on TB? Jeff W7JW -Original Message- From: Herb Schoenbohm Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 4:55 PM To: g...@ka1j.com Cc: Topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: RI1ANF You have me excited for a moment as I need Antarctica on 160. I have already worked South Orkney, South Shetland, Falklands, Bouvet and Peter I on TB but for some reason Antarctica has just not been there for me even though there are always active hams there. Maybe I worked some other operation there years ago but never entered the call as a new onebut there must be some operation on TB from Antarcticalike I mean just tie some insulated wire on a snow cat and lay it on the snow. Drive north for a half a mile.and put in a 600 ohm non inductive resistor and drive another 135 feet for a Beverage self termination without a ground connection and you should be able to hear everything that comes on the band from NA during the long periods of darkness when they go into real winter. Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ 5/31/2012 12:18 PM, Gary Smith wrote: Thanks to some off list replies My logging program (which means me as well) is apparently incorrect and this is a south shetland Q. Though I liked the idea of it being Antarctica as my father as a young ham made contact with Byrds expedition. However, I also need South Shetlands on TB so I'm still most happy. Thank you for the correction! Gary KA1J What a surprise to hear Antarctica last night. Apparently the band has some nice unexpected gems to be found on it here in Connecticut. Gary KA1J ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
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George, VP8CTR was very available in 1997/98. QTH was Vernadsky Base on Galindez Island, AN-006. The operator was the much-traveled Roman Bratchik, UX1KA, EM1KA, EM1U, UA1OT, 4K2OT, XY0RR, 3W/4K2OT. Garry, NI6T On 6/6/2012 7:36 PM, George wrote: Antarctic Continent is a bit difficult these days. I have a few contacts in the 80s - 90's, but pretty skimpy from year 2K. I did work VP8CTR in Feb 1998 but didn't note the QTH. I never sent for the card. Any ideas on the QTH? 73 George W8UVZ I'm pretty sure DP1POL was active on TB in 2010. I worked him on 80, 40 and 30m and seem to remember he had 100w on TB? Jeff W7JW -Original Message- From: Herb Schoenbohm Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 4:55 PM To: g...@ka1j.com Cc: Topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: RI1ANF You have me excited for a moment as I need Antarctica on 160. I have already worked South Orkney, South Shetland, Falklands, Bouvet and Peter I on TB but for some reason Antarctica has just not been there for me even though there are always active hams there. Maybe I worked some other operation there years ago but never entered the call as a new onebut there must be some operation on TB from Antarcticalike I mean just tie some insulated wire on a snow cat and lay it on the snow. Drive north for a half a mile.and put in a 600 ohm non inductive resistor and drive another 135 feet for a Beverage self termination without a ground connection and you should be able to hear everything that comes on the band from NA during the long periods of darkness when they go into real winter. Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ 5/31/2012 12:18 PM, Gary Smith wrote: Thanks to some off list replies My logging program (which means me as well) is apparently incorrect and this is a south shetland Q. Though I liked the idea of it being Antarctica as my father as a young ham made contact with Byrds expedition. However, I also need South Shetlands on TB so I'm still most happy. Thank you for the correction! Gary KA1J What a surprise to hear Antarctica last night. Apparently the band has some nice unexpected gems to be found on it here in Connecticut. Gary KA1J ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Topband: RI1ANF
Hi George (W8UVZ) and all other subscribers In February 1998 VP8CTR was QRV from Antarctica - see the very useful Clublog website (do register and join - its free!). Here's the link:- https://secure.clublog.org/index.php - under Club Log Tools in the left hand column click on Call Tester, fill in the date and there's your answer. Best 73 de Cris GM4FAM You can On 07.06.2012 02:36, George wrote: Antarctic Continent is a bit difficult these days. I have a few contacts in the 80s - 90's, but pretty skimpy from year 2K. I did work VP8CTR in Feb 1998 but didn't note the QTH. I never sent for the card. Any ideas on the QTH? 73 George W8UVZ I'm pretty sure DP1POL was active on TB in 2010. I worked him on 80, 40 and 30m and seem to remember he had 100w on TB? Jeff W7JW -Original Message- From: Herb Schoenbohm Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 4:55 PM To: g...@ka1j.com Cc: Topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: RI1ANF You have me excited for a moment as I need Antarctica on 160. I have already worked South Orkney, South Shetland, Falklands, Bouvet and Peter I on TB but for some reason Antarctica has just not been there for me even though there are always active hams there. Maybe I worked some other operation there years ago but never entered the call as a new onebut there must be some operation on TB from Antarcticalike I mean just tie some insulated wire on a snow cat and lay it on the snow. Drive north for a half a mile.and put in a 600 ohm non inductive resistor and drive another 135 feet for a Beverage self termination without a ground connection and you should be able to hear everything that comes on the band from NA during the long periods of darkness when they go into real winter. Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ 5/31/2012 12:18 PM, Gary Smith wrote: Thanks to some off list replies My logging program (which means me as well) is apparently incorrect and this is a south shetland Q. Though I liked the idea of it being Antarctica as my father as a young ham made contact with Byrds expedition. However, I also need South Shetlands on TB so I'm still most happy. Thank you for the correction! Gary KA1J What a surprise to hear Antarctica last night. Apparently the band has some nice unexpected gems to be found on it here in Connecticut. Gary KA1J ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Topband: RI1ANF
What a surprise to hear Antarctica last night. Apparently the band has some nice unexpected gems to be found on it here in Connecticut. Gary KA1J ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Re: Topband: RI1ANF
Thanks to some off list replies My logging program (which means me as well) is apparently incorrect and this is a south shetland Q. Though I liked the idea of it being Antarctica as my father as a young ham made contact with Byrds expedition. However, I also need South Shetlands on TB so I'm still most happy. Thank you for the correction! Gary KA1J What a surprise to hear Antarctica last night. Apparently the band has some nice unexpected gems to be found on it here in Connecticut. Gary KA1J ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Re: Topband: RI1ANF
Opps qrz.com/db/ri1anf Anyway Herb, that´s good that topbanders have RX antennas to the south :-) 73, Jorge CX6VM/CW5W -Mensaje original- De: topband-boun...@contesting.com [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] En nombre de Herb Schoenbohm Enviado el: jueves, 31 de mayo de 2012 17:55 Para: g...@ka1j.com CC: Topband@contesting.com Asunto: Re: Topband: RI1ANF You have me excited for a moment as I need Antarctica on 160. I have already worked South Orkney, South Shetland, Falklands, Bouvet and Peter I on TB but for some reason Antarctica has just not been there for me even though there are always active hams there. Maybe I worked some other operation there years ago but never entered the call as a new onebut there must be some operation on TB from Antarcticalike I mean just tie some insulated wire on a snow cat and lay it on the snow. Drive north for a half a mile.and put in a 600 ohm non inductive resistor and drive another 135 feet for a Beverage self termination without a ground connection and you should be able to hear everything that comes on the band from NA during the long periods of darkness when they go into real winter. Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ 5/31/2012 12:18 PM, Gary Smith wrote: Thanks to some off list replies My logging program (which means me as well) is apparently incorrect and this is a south shetland Q. Though I liked the idea of it being Antarctica as my father as a young ham made contact with Byrds expedition. However, I also need South Shetlands on TB so I'm still most happy. Thank you for the correction! Gary KA1J What a surprise to hear Antarctica last night. Apparently the band has some nice unexpected gems to be found on it here in Connecticut. Gary KA1J ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
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Here's an interesting story: In the early 90's, I worked as a ship-board radio officer. At one of the training conferences, I met a fellow RO who also worked at the McMurdo Antarctic base when he wasn't on ships. During one of our (many and frequent) conversations after hours at the hotel bar, he mentioned an odd propagation mode at 5 kHz which only seemed to be present from pole-to-pole. The physics of this propagation are still unclear to me, but the salient point is that he also described the antenna. It was a simple dipole, cut for resonance, and strung for miles along the icecap. Ice is a good insulator, and the ice cap is thick enough to give a ground mounted dipole reasonable height even at VLF. At 160m, a dipole on the ice would act as though it were essentially in free-space. Feel free to fact check me on this. I was young. We were sailors. And we were drinking. :-) But it does bode well for helping Herb get his Antarctic merit badge some day. -Jeff W0ODS From: Herb Schoenbohm he...@vitelcom.net To: g...@ka1j.com Cc: Topband@contesting.com Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 3:55 PM Subject: Re: Topband: RI1ANF You have me excited for a moment as I need Antarctica on 160. I have already worked South Orkney, South Shetland, Falklands, Bouvet and Peter I on TB but for some reason Antarctica has just not been there for me even though there are always active hams there. Maybe I worked some other operation there years ago but never entered the call as a new onebut there must be some operation on TB from Antarcticalike I mean just tie some insulated wire on a snow cat and lay it on the snow. Drive north for a half a mile.and put in a 600 ohm non inductive resistor and drive another 135 feet for a Beverage self termination without a ground connection and you should be able to hear everything that comes on the band from NA during the long periods of darkness when they go into real winter. Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ 5/31/2012 12:18 PM, Gary Smith wrote: Thanks to some off list replies My logging program (which means me as well) is apparently incorrect and this is a south shetland Q. Though I liked the idea of it being Antarctica as my father as a young ham made contact with Byrds expedition. However, I also need South Shetlands on TB so I'm still most happy. Thank you for the correction! Gary KA1J What a surprise to hear Antarctica last night. Apparently the band has some nice unexpected gems to be found on it here in Connecticut. Gary KA1J ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
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At 06:24 PM 5/31/2012, Jeff Woods/W0ODS wrote: Here's an interesting story: In the early 90's, I worked as a ship-board radio officer. At one of the training conferences, I met a fellow RO who also worked at the McMurdo Antarctic base when he wasn't on ships. During one of our (many and frequent) conversations after hours at the hotel bar, he mentioned an odd propagation mode at 5 kHz which only seemed to be present from pole-to-pole. The physics of this propagation are still unclear to me, but the salient point is that he also described the antenna. It was a simple dipole, cut for resonance, and strung for miles along the icecap. Ice is a good insulator, and the ice cap is thick enough to give a ground mounted dipole reasonable height even at VLF. At 160m, a dipole on the ice would act as though it were essentially in free-space. Feel free to fact check me on this. I was young. We were sailors. And we were drinking. :-) But it does bode well for helping Herb get his Antarctic merit badge some day. It was probably KC4AAD Siple Station They had something like a 100kw SCR device transmitter on 15 khz talking to Roberville Quebec Google is my friend http://vlf.stanford.edu/research/vlf-transmitter-siple-station-antarctica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siple_Station When I was at Palmer Station KC4AAC (just a bit south of the South Shetrlands on the Antarctic peninsula) I got to listen a lot on 160m but had no transmitter. It was easy to hear ON4UN and some others because of the extremely low noise level. I borrowed a 50w(?) ionospheric sounder (actually a modified DX-40 or DX-60) from a British science experiment on several nights that did cover 160m. I don't think I ever worked anything other than South American stations. -- Tom/K1KI, x-KC4AAC opr 1976-77 e-mail: fren...@pcnet.comYCCC -- http://www.yccc.org/ Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box J, West Suffield CT 06093 Phone: 860-668-5444 ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
