Re: Topband: Beverage up but maybe has problems comments requested

2011-12-03 Thread wa3mej
George,   Thanks for taking the time reply.. and yes you understand.. like I told another respondee its about technical excellence and understanding !  Ya gotta understand why your doing something. My core was a FT114-75 and using the rule of 4 I wound 24 turns center tapped for the

Topband: 160 Conditions from ORG

2011-12-03 Thread rick darwicki
Worst conditions in a long time last night. Worked a couple of VE2,3, 6 an 7s, KL7, KH6, all the 6's 7', and most all 8, 9, and 0s. GA, KY, TN, VA, AR, LA lone CE and XE. Didn't bother staying up or getting up for the JA openings. 45 mult's so far but only 100 Qs, usually 2-300 Qs and 55-60

Topband: FW: ARRL 160

2011-12-03 Thread sebdesnCC
-Original Message- From: jeremy maris [mailto:jer...@maris.plus.com] Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 1:35 PM To: sebdesnCC Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL 160 Conditions not brilliant from G4AQG. Only worked 16 states including VE; worked into LA, TX and STX. Couldn't raise AZ but heard

Topband: cq 160

2011-12-03 Thread james soto
Been testing the inverted L that i install few weeks ago.last night work couple caribbean stations and also few north american .band been pretty noisy at this end.but this morning was less noisy. work few VE and north america pretty easy , i just run 100 watts( no amplifier ). I notice that few

Re: Topband: cq 160

2011-12-03 Thread Sam Morgan
I run into that problem they just keep calling without space between cq's. often myself. My guesses are, they are either not even listening, just trying to keep their claim to that frequency by the never ending cq's. I say it that way, because they don't seem to even leave enough space between

Topband: Top band conditions suring ARRL 160

2011-12-03 Thread VE2TZT
Do not give up guys, in this saturday morning in QC we had some great strong and clear signals with europe at the end of they night. In fact the ARRL 160m problem is that there are not enough participants outside NA. Even if the conditions are there, we have few people at the other side. This

Re: Topband: Top band conditions suring ARRL 160

2011-12-03 Thread Hardy Landskov
That's the one thing that irks me about ARRL 160. The reason there are not more stations outside of US participate is that this contest turns out to be an ARRL 160 Sweepstakes at least this is my opinion from the Westcoast. Stations turn on their CQ machines and make it very difficult to

Re: Topband: Top band conditions suring ARRL 160

2011-12-03 Thread Jim Brown
On 12/3/2011 7:09 PM, Hardy Landskov wrote: he reason there are not more stations outside of US participate is that this contest turns out to be an ARRL 160 Sweepstakes at least this is my opinion from the Westcoast. Yes.As a protest of scoring rules that make it an east coast works Europe

Re: Topband: Top band conditions suring ARRL 160

2011-12-03 Thread W0MU Mike Fatchett
Not much different for the CQ 160 either. We tried to operate it from V47 twice and we were ignored while we made huge numbers of contacts in the ARRL DX SSB test... Mike W0MU W0MU-1 CC Cluster w0mu.net On 12/3/2011 8:09 PM, Hardy Landskov wrote: That's the one thing that irks me about

Re: Topband: Top band conditions suring ARRL 160

2011-12-03 Thread Merv Schweigert
On 12/3/2011 7:09 PM, Hardy Landskov wrote: he reason there are not more stations outside of US participate is that this contest turns out to be an ARRL 160 Sweepstakes at least this is my opinion from the Westcoast. Yes.As a protest of scoring rules that make it an east coast