Well the problem is that I just live in a normal house in the city, with a
normal-sized garden !
So no room for Beverage Antennas - and even my TX Antenna (a half-wave
Dipole) doesn't fit within my own property. My only separate RX antenna is
a homebrew Loop tuned to 160m up in the loft.
I
On 12/15/2021 4:53 PM, Roger Kennedy wrote:
they are a huge source of noise
if you live in the city.
Most of the developed world has gotten a couple of orders of magnitude
noisier over the past couple of decades. Blame switch-mode power
supplies, other power control electronics, solar power
Hi Jim,
I google searched again for 3Y0I - and none of the announcements (Dec 1,
Aug 19 and Aug 18) on DX News and DX maps and other sites said anything
about a Dec 15, 2021 date.
The only place that I can find the information about a Dec. 15, 2021
date that you cite is from an an archived
this is the latest I saw...as posted December 1st on the Rebel DX
facebook page, and subsequently published in many DX newsletters:
December 1 finally borders are open in Fiji . We are free to go out /
in after so many months.
Due the current ban travel to/from South Africa (omicron covid
Correct Jamie. That is apparently the current info.
Any prior posts about a December 15th sailing deadline were moot months
ago and apparently have since been altered/removed.
Both DX News and DX Maps have removed any references to a December 15th
sailing date.
There is no date for if/when
All -
The annual Stew Perry 160 meter Distance Challenge is coming up this
weekend. It starts at 1500Z on Dec 18th and runs for 24 hours. The
exchange is your grid square and the points you get are proportional to the
distance of the contact. Full rules and other information available at
My Alpha 9500 is out being repaired, so I will be operating low power in
the SP this weekend. Which of course means additional points for both
ends of the QSO. Might be worth trying to pull my signal out of the
noise if you hear me. I did pretty well in the ARRL 160 working the
east coast with
