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I remember working Robin, VK6LK, almost every evening on 3.7 SSB together with SM6DOI, SM7CRW, SM4AAH and many others. He always came up around 9 pm local time, his sunrise. After that I qsy´d to top band and worked VK6HD on cw. That was back in 1985. The good old time! SM6CPY _

Re: Topband: LU5OM shortened dipole (inverted vee) doing a nice job

> On Jul 24, 2017, at 1:36 PM, Steve Ireland wrote: > > If you have losses in the far field from poor soil conductivity, all the > radials in the world and a full-size vertical can’t fix this. ;-) Anyone care to hazard a guess as to what soil conductivity numbers might

Re: Topband: LU5OM shortened dipole (inverted vee) doing a nice job

Hi gentlemen, Way back in time - 1982 - I had my first QSO with Mike which actually was the first QSO on 160 between SM and VK. Still recall his pounding signals. Since then we had a lot of QSO:s , always with good signals. RIP Mike! Len SM7BIC -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Topband

Topband: VK6LK SK

G'day Steve, Robin and Mike were great DX friends. Got together usually weekly to talk about DX.. Early on with poor radios they had QRM problem if they both on 160 meters at the same sunrise time. They decided Mike would take 160 meters and Robin 80 meters (75 SSB) this time period..

Re: Topband: LU5OM shortened dipole (inverted vee) doing a nice job

The inverted L has some quirks that if not managed can impact performance. They don't do well if the bend is supported by a tower, or if there are nearby "weed" parasitic elements from 40 and 80 dipoles/vees lacking the blocking to isolate them on 160. L's don't do well if there are trees inside

Re: Topband: LU5OM shortened dipole (inverted vee) doing a nice job

G’day One of the great myths about 160m is that low angle radiation is always needed to work DX on the topband. The other is that almost any kind of vertical antenna will always beat a relatively low (in terms of a wavelength) horizontal one for 160m DXing. It all depends on where you live.

Topband: VK6LK SK

G’day Very sorry to hear of the passing of Robin VK6LK. The passion of Robin and his great friend Mike VK6HD for lowband DXing was an inspiration to me when first arriving in Western Australia in 1989. The old SSB DX window just below 3.8MHz at local sunrise won’t sound quite the same –