Re: Topband: VP6A

2023-06-23 Thread Wes
I saw this when I got out of bed at 1000Z  :-) Not that it mattered.  One peep was about all I heard.  Saw you spotted on 60 but nothing seen. That's okay, worked you on 6/20. Still need 10 and 40 SSB too to fill my Bingo card. Wes  N7WS On 6/22/2023 9:12 PM, GEORGE WALLNER wrote: I will

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2023-06-23 Thread Roger Kennedy
Joe I used to have the kind of CW note I think you are talking about. It was deliberately very "pingy" . . . a bit like a bell ringing. I achieved it on my homebrew CW rig . . . then when I got my FT-101E (that I used for decades to work DX on 160m) I managed to make it sound much the same.

Re: Topband: VP6A

2023-06-23 Thread GEORGE WALLNER
I was on 1827.5 from 0200 and form 0930 but there very very few callers. Most signals that I've copied were just barely above the noise. Apart form the lack of activity and high QRN in the northern hemisphere, we have very poor ground at the antenna. We put out a lot of radials but could not

Re: Topband: VP6A

2023-06-23 Thread m.r.c.
Hi George I could hear you well enough on 1827.5 to ID over my city lot S8 noise in So Calif, but no chance you would hear my 100 watts and a random wire The guys fussed at me when I added a dozen full length radials to the Titanex - we already had about 8 - it was up on the hard pan of the