Hi George
if you have the opportunity, a high angle receive antenna for the hours at and
just after sunset may serve you well
a receiving dipole at 15 ft accounted for a large percentage of contacts during
that period from XZ0A - unlikely you can do that but any horizontal dipole might
Thank you George, Thank you Mike, Thank you RiB. Great to connect this morning
on TB.
73, safe travels, Jim Colletto, N6TQ
From: Topband on
behalf of GEORGE WALLNER
Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2023 9:13 PM
To: 'topband@contesting.com'
Subject: Topband:
I know what you're saying JC . . . we should make the best of things as they
are NOW . . .
But my talking about signals being stronger on Top Band years ago is not
"rose tinted spectacles" . . . I'm talking about actual signal strength (and
not just signal relative to the noise, which of course
Robin,
Thanks for the advice. It appears that if I fix the generator noise, the TX
antenna will also be a good RX antenna, but only for signals from 270
degrees (W) to 50 degrees (NE). The mountain shields the noise (and signals)
from any other direction.
May try the low dipole.
TKS,
Had an interesting night.
We used this generator on many operations and we've never heard its noise.
Because the mountains block noise form an arc of almost 210 degrees, the TX
antenna is very quiet on RX! Quiet enough to make the generator noise heard.
Will try to eliminate the generator
