One last thought on this..
When I came back to the mainland in 2010 the only rig I had was my truck,
an ICOM 706 and a Tarheel screwdriver antennanot exactly a super setup.
I was really craving a radio fix so for the 2010 phone sweepstakes I drove
my truck on dirt road that
Hi Guys
I would say vertical IN the salt water. George AA7JV is my mentor about
antennas, and his 160m vertical is at the pear, just 2 m from the salt
water, the ground plane is a flat sheet SS metal 1 ft. x 20~30 ft. that
goes inside the water , dropping 10 from the pear wall and on the see
greetings
to pass the time through the summer doldrums, I've been playing with weak
signal digi-modes. Near sunrise, am having fair luck to VK, w jt-65...
VK3XQ comes through almost every day..
but, at Eu sunrise, my cq's go un-answered, even with kw power. Is the band
really THAT bad to
There's the band, and then there's folks using the band. Both have to line
up!
Important thing is that it is winter in VK :-). So more likely for VK's to
be on topband than for EU's.
I don't do JT-65 but below I share some of my experience with CW this
summer on 160M:
Just in the past week I
Dan Edward Dba East edwards dan.n.edwa...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
greetings
to pass the time through the summer doldrums, I've been playing with weak
signal digi-modes. Near sunrise, am having fair luck to VK, w jt-65...
VK3XQ comes through almost every day..
but, at Eu sunrise, my cq's go
Hello brethren,
I´m ready to be crucified yet I couldn´t resist asking a question:
What's the value of JT modes qso for a dxer?
IMHO Digimodes undermine the value of low band dxing. I don't arfue over
reliability of the modes and their help in extension of hamradio capabilities
in general yet
By the way, my intention is not to make anyone feel bad, but to just to
remind people that an impression or feeling is not confirmation. Impressions
really get us off track, and lead to unnecessary debates and arguments.
- Original Message -
From: Tom W8JI w...@w8ji.com
To:
On 8/12/2014 8:00 AM, ALEXEY OGORODOV wrote:
What's the value of JT modes qso for a dxer?
There's far more to ham radio than making QSOs on CW (which I have been
doing for 59 years). There's also station and antenna building, learning
new techniques, interfacing computers to rigs, and so on.
Oh, here comes the guru again. :-)
Unnecessary debate? We are talking about experiences and RESULTS of
comparing normal in land ground effect vs. salt water beach or
marshes. We are commenting on the benefit of immediate proximity of salt
water to antenna performance, especially on low
Wow, nice S-meter...
-Original Message-
From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Yuri
Blanarovich
Oh, here comes the guru again. :-)
Unnecessary debate? We are talking about experiences and RESULTS of
comparing normal in land ground effect vs. salt water beach
- Original Message -
From: Yuri Blanarovich k...@optimum.net
To: topband@contesting.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: Modeling the proverbial vertical on a beach
Oh, here comes the guru again. :-)
Is that immature stuff really necessary?
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 08:14 PM, Tom W8JI wrote:
- Original Message - From: Yuri Blanarovich To: Sent:
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: Modeling the proverbial vertical on a beach
Oh, here comes the guru again. :-)
Is that immature stuff really
Yuri,
I don't think K3LR, W3LPL could afford that kind of property to begin with
plus they have to work and have families and all of that. It is nice to do
that kind of thing on DXPD's but I would not want to live there.
My final 2 centsI vote we move on.
73 N7RT
- Original Message
this brings back a lot of memories..i arrived on rarotonga a week
after a French Dxpidition did, who was set up in the K2KW motel room with
vertical antennas on the beach just as you would imagine. the motel
management said she was sorry, and set me up in a cottage (from the same
motel) on
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