Hi,
I sent a private email to one of the first hams to post about this.
Apparently there is a lot of interest on the list about this. I am new
to 160 meters and struggling to get my radios and antennas up to par. I
was dismayed to see that there is a season. I surely expect
propagation to change
For those who take their antennas down, the season is definitely over
73
N4FX
-Original Message-
From: topband-boun...@contesting.com [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Jim Brown
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 11:29 PM
To: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband:
It is always with great reluctance that I coil up my radials and put
them in the
garage when the season is over. Even though I have no choice, I hate
being
a fair weather friend to Top Band.
It is also with humility that I work stations in the Southern Hemisphere
during the long nights of
Now there's the statement that says it all!
Of every comment made here, some of them pretty ridiculous, the one
below makes the most senseBravo.
BILL K4OWR
For those who take their antennas down, the season is definitely over
73
N4FX
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On 2012-03-16, at 10:13 AM, K4OWR wrote:
Now there's the statement that says it all!
Of every comment made here, some of them pretty ridiculous, the one
below makes the most senseBravo.
True enough...
But alas alack---sadly!---we are not all blessed with the acreage wide-open
Sigh guess I stand admonished for even THINKING about leaving Top Band off
my list of bands to check every so often during the Spring, Summer and early
Fall months.
Will there be SOME communication opportunities, even with my puny QRP
signal
I'll keep it all goin' along, albeit
I think we need a July contest.
Dave WX7G
On Mar 15, 2012 9:28 PM, Jim Brown j...@audiosystemsgroup.com wrote:
On 3/15/2012 5:01 PM, Jon Zaimes AA1K wrote:
I've worked JA's in April and August. Europe and the Mideast can be
worked all summer long, as well as VK/ZL and much of the southern
are there any plans for a Jine Stew Perry this year?
last year it was on 1500Z, Jun 18 to 1500Z, Jun 19, 2011
GB 73
K5OAI
Sam Morgan
On 3/16/2012 10:09 AM, DAVID CUTHBERT wrote:
I think we need a July contest.
Dave WX7G
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UR RST IS ... ... ..9
Thanks Sam, I didn't know about the summer Stew. I'll be there.
WX7G
On Mar 16, 2012 9:26 AM, Sam Morgan k5oai@gmail.com wrote:
are there any plans for a Jine Stew Perry this year?
last year it was on 1500Z, Jun 18 to 1500Z, Jun 19, 2011
GB 73
K5OAI
Sam Morgan
On 3/16/2012 10:09
S Please don't encourage those trememdous US stations with
their fantastic operators to stay on 160m after the season !!
Us QRPers need to gain any possible advantage :-))
72
Jim / W1FMR
--- On Fri, 3/16/12, Bill Cromwell wrcromw...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Bill
On 16/03/2012 15:00, James Rodenkirch wrote:
Sigh guess I stand admonished for even THINKING about leaving Top Band
off my list of bands to check every so often during the Spring, Summer and
early Fall months.
Will there be SOME communication opportunities, even with my puny QRP
Bill
and now it's over till next year?
I don't know how it is in W4 and/or W2, but here in 7-land the
season is not over, although if people think it is it often appears
to be. For trans-Pacific paths the prop is better from May to
September, especially for northern and western VK.
73
Bob
Bill and all,
as a newcomer you can find on my website a lot of graphs showing the season
behaviour of 160 meters.
For example give a look at these pages
http://www.iv3prk.it/north-america.htm and
http://www.iv3prk.it/peaking-times.htm and you see that Topband season never
ends:
In the last
G3OIT wrote:
We don't have animals here that eat antennas
Well something just ate my control cable to my remote antenna switch box! Pesky
rabbits I think.
73
Tom G3OLB
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On 3/16/2012 2:46 PM, Tom Boucher wrote:
G3OIT wrote:
We don't have animals here that eat antennas
Well something just ate my control cable to my remote antenna switch box!
Pesky rabbits I think.
73
Tom G3OLB
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Tom, I thought that years ago
Hi,
When I first joined this list I mentioned having read articles by hams
who worked 160 with mobile radios with 10 to 50 watts output to *mobile*
antennas. They were not working the antipodes every day but they *were*
making mobile QSOs. I have a big chunk of wire that apparently favors
the
In the 50's as a HS student I worked many 160M AM mobiles out to 20 miles or
so and they worked each other out to about 10 miles unless they were along
the salt water area roads and then they were much louder. This was down on
LI, NY.
These were commuters during mostly daylight hours when the
They got new animals over there now, dont you read the papers(-;
Carl
KM1H
- Original Message -
From: Herb Schoenbohm he...@vitelcom.net
To: topband@contesting.com
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: TB Season
On 3/16/2012 2:46 PM, Tom Boucher wrote:
G3OIT
I have a problem with saying TB season is over. It is just this.. if we as
DXers say it is over then others will stay away and it will become a self
fulfilling prophecy. In past years I have worked 160 all year long with the
only thing limiting me was the noise floor and qrn during summer
Oh, no, you should all belive the 160 meter season is
overfoundly looking at my first in world
SOSB160 certf from the AADX contest a few years back, while stroking
softly my NC183 in the soft light of my
833athanks Rush, you sold me some good
Has anyone in this reflector installed a Cushcraft MA-160 short vertical
with a couple of elevated radials or the K2AV Folded Counterpoise? If
so, results? Any recommendations? I need to do something before the TB
season ends. My quarter-wave sloper doesn't work properly.
Thanks,
Dave, W4DN
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