Re: Topband: V73D question

2015-10-23 Thread Mike Waters
Art, According to http://earthdirections.org/locate/ the Marshall Islands are about 286 degrees from Michigan. (16 degrees north of due west.) That doesn't necessarily indicate that their signal was coming directly from that azimuth. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Art

Topband: V73D question

2015-10-23 Thread Art Snapper
I am curious what beam heading (for lack of a better term), you received them at this morning. I was unable to copy them on my SW BOG or on the Inv L, but had pretty decent copy on my OCF antenna at 50ft. The ends of the OCF are E/W. 73 Art NK8X Michigan ᐧ _ Topband Reflector

Re: Topband: V73D question

2015-10-23 Thread Mike Waters
How well are they hearing central and eastern North America on 160? http://v73d.mydx.de doesn't list any RX antennas. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Kenneth Grimm wrote: > I copied them briefly at sunrise in Virginia. The only beverage I could > hear

Re: Topband: V73D question

2015-10-23 Thread Mike Waters
From that page: "...the problem is a high man made noise ... That means we are hearing not good and are not happy about so many signals just in the noise. That means your signal must be over this noise. The noise level from 160 to 30 m is never better than S5 noise, on 80 m extremely bad with

Re: Topband: V73D question

2015-10-23 Thread Tom WA2BCK
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 1:54 PM To: 160 Subject: Topband: V73D question I am curious what beam heading (for lack of a better term), you received them at this morning. I was unable to copy them on my SW BOG or on the Inv L, but had pretty decent copy on my OCF antenna at 50ft. The ends

Re: Topband: V73D question

2015-10-23 Thread Les Kalmus
This morning I could hear them S5-6 on 80M and worked them there but they were clearly having trouble hearing. On 160M I couldn't hear them at all although I heard stations calling them around 1015UTC. Their web site says they have high noise levels on 80 and 160 from the resort hotel they are.

Re: Topband: V73D question

2015-10-23 Thread bob hervatine
:54:39 -0400 > To: topband@contesting.com > Subject: Topband: V73D question > > I am curious what beam heading (for lack of a better term), you received > them at this morning. > > I was unable to copy them on my SW BOG or on the Inv L, but had pretty > decent copy on my