I worked XV7BM on 160 at my sunrise (about 1400z) this morning, running
about 900w, and transmitting/receiving on the same antenna, a half-sloper
off a 110' tower. He was peaking over s-9 when I worked him.
All the same facts applied to my QSO with HS0ZKX yesterday.
Now if only XZ1Z would
Tom,
I worked XV7BM at 1328z this morning about 10 minutes before our SR. When I
worked him, he was 559, but within 10 minutes he was 579!
I'm running about 1400 watts out to a 70 ft vertical with (2) 50 ft top hat
wires. I have over 100 135 ft ground radials. My RX antenna is a HI-Z 4 SQ
Hi Tom,
Welcome to topband! As you gain experience you will encounter
many situations where your transmit antenna is inadequate for
receiving. An excellent receiving antenna can provide as much as
10 dB improvement compared to an omnidirectional vertical
transmitting antenna, not only in
Tom ole buddy.. Call me on the secret Zilla line and let's chat. We can
hook a brother up !! :-
On Tuesday, March 18, 2014, wa8...@wa8wzg.net wrote:
To all,,, I am relatively new to 160,,, I work the vhf/uhf/Eme
spectrum,so I am used to weak signal work,, I just moved to
