Re: Topband: Fwd: Re: Baker Island DXpedition on 160

2018-06-15 Thread lennart.michaelsson
Kirk Skickat: den 15 juni 2018 14:30 Till: Guy Olinger K2AV Kopia: TopBand List ; Bruce Ämne: Re: Topband: Fwd: Re: Baker Island DXpedition on 160 Guy (K2AV) said "Methinks hamdom underestimates 160 propagation in the summertime.", and I totally agree with him. For the past 11 months I

Re: Topband: Fwd: Re: Baker Island DXpedition on 160

2018-06-15 Thread Don Kirk
Guy (K2AV) said "Methinks hamdom underestimates 160 propagation in the summertime.", and I totally agree with him. For the past 11 months I have been running a daily early morning experiment on 160 meters CW trying to copy a specific station in South America running 500 watts (4700 mile path,

Re: Topband: Fwd: Re: Baker Island DXpedition on 160

2018-06-14 Thread Guy Olinger K2AV
Methinks hamdom underestimates 160 propagation in the summertime. Working DX through QRN and having reduced opening time during summer, these make working the DX irritating to the ears and inconvenient, but not impossible. Even with no more than an inverted L, I still hit European RBN later in

Re: Topband: Fwd: Re: Baker Island DXpedition on 160

2018-06-13 Thread Chortek, Robert L.
A short vertical with top loading over an effective ground can be in this extremely effective antenna Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 13, 2018, at 10:33 AM, F Z_Bruce wrote: > > > > > > > > As in ARRL literature, even as short antenna in a great ground plane can be > very

Topband: Fwd: Re: Baker Island DXpedition on 160

2018-06-13 Thread F Z_Bruce
As in ARRL literature, even as short antenna in a great ground plane can be very effective. The Baker Island group has indicated that they were going to use the salt water.. 73 Bruce-k1fz On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 16:14:01 +, jon jones wrote: Back in the 90's - KH6ND