Re: Topband: 7Q7

2020-11-20 Thread Kenneth Grimm
In Virginia on both CW and FT8 nights he was barely readable on NE and SE beverages. However, solid copy from before sunset until his sunrise on 570' E beverage. On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 12:28 PM Drew Vonada-Smith wrote: > Tom, > > He was about S6 the other night in Kansas. First heard 2330Z,

Re: Topband: 7Q7

2020-11-20 Thread Raymond Benny
Lucky guys, not a peep so far on the West Coast. If they stay a few more days, maybe we'll be lucky too... Ray, N6VR/W7YA On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 11:39 AM Artek Manuals wrote: > Tom > > I'm using a 470 foot E/W Beverage here in Florida on receive and a 60' > high "T" with four 90' elevated

Re: Topband: 7Q7

2020-11-20 Thread Artek Manuals
Tom I'm using a 470 foot E/W Beverage here  in Florida on receive and a 60' high "T"  with four 90' elevated radials for transmit (TS890/KPA1500) . The CW operation the first night was quite a QSB roller coaster and I had no success catching the right xmit frequency  with the peaks. The

Topband: 7Q7

2020-11-20 Thread Drew Vonada-Smith
Tom, He was about S6 the other night in Kansas. First heard 2330Z, but much better from 0010 to 0030Z. I worked him at 0020Z in about ten calls. Antenna was an inverted L, and RX was a 650 ft Bev to the SE. He was similar strength on the NE Bev as SE, but my noise level is much higher NE.