Greetings to the RF Fighters and Top Band Operators Around the World,
In less than one week the next Stew Perry 160M contest will be
exercised. The time period on Dec. 26/27 contains the appointed times. You
may operate up to 14 hours out of the 24 allotted hours. Operate more time
than
I have no separate RX antennas here. Still, I believe I have parity between TX
and RX performance, at least at my 500W power level.
Generally speaking, I think I have a reasonably quiet location and despite
having two acres, the siting of my house, an existing tower, the TX vertical and
My friend G4IUF uses a plain dipole on top band and it's anything but straight
or high: it mostly meanders around his garden going up and down, along fences
up a tree, out to the front gate, etc. He has a successful record on the band
up there in the low hundreds. I marvel at his ability to
Regarding this thread I offer the following:
In a rare occasion based on location with the proper terrain a dipole or
Extended Zepp may offer increased performance. In this case steep
sloping terrain with antenna suspended on the slope pointing in the
favored direction. Les A. Moxon (1993).
Hi
Video from Taras UW5ZO.
18.12.2020 14:00utc N6TR/7 in Ukraine (uw5zo) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q59oDHrOwJU
18.12.2020 14:30 VE6WZ in Ukraine(uw5zo) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gymt7DgBiXU
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"This morning - the band was
On Dec.11 I worked with NF5KF on 0952z, then VE6BMX NI4MX KD4S BD7OXR W8IW
N4BP K5ESW NA9RB K0DD BG7CDC K4JWA WG0G VE3EJ FN03 N2WK NY FN03 AA5JF K5GKC
W5VY K8MFO N2QT VA FM07 NS9I WB8ART N4II K7STO N9SU NE8Z W7USA BH4RWP
RA9MA W5LE K5PI W9FFA W5TN W6OZI.
On Dec.12 I have decoded AA1K by -11 and
