Re: Topband: No DXwatch cluster for two days now?

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

I'd say that the screen fills from the RBN server have gotten a lot faster.
Maybe some hardware upgrades?

73, g.

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 2:50 PM, Lee. KX4TT via Topband <
topband@contesting.com> wrote:

> Looks like DXWatch just came back
>
>
> Lee KX4TT
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of terry
> burge
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2018 13:40
> To: topband@contesting.com
> Subject: Topband: No DXwatch cluster for two days now?
>
> Anyone got any idea what is going on with DXwatch side? Haven't been able
> to
> pull it up for two days and had to shift to DXSummit.fi. Personally, I hope
> it will be back on for this weekends 160M CQ SSB contest. I always enjoy
> that one when I can get on it and bump head with the big boys.
>
>
> Terry
>
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Re: Topband: 160m DX Activity Night

[VK3HJ]

This morning around 2000z I worked several European stations. The band 
seemed quite lively today.


Stations were worked from Russia to England and Italy, with others heard 
from the north.


Conditions seemed reasonable again, although it seems that many operators 
are occupied doing other things. The digital sub-band appeared busy.


I will be back on calling CQ again Monday around 2000z, as there is the SSB 
Contest on this weekend. As George mentioned elsewhere, a contest doesn't do 
much for DX!


73,

Luke VK3HJ 


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Re: Topband: Speaking of Noises...

[Jeff Kincaid]

Interesting thought, Jim, but you have lost the context.  What I was listening 
to was Tim's recording.
'JK
 

On Friday, February 23, 2018 4:01 PM, Jim Jim  wrote:
 

  Jeff,  try turning off all of the Cell phones located near your receiver (and 
maybe in the house)  This sounds like the sound of a Cell phone polling the 
local tower that I had several years ago  it often drives me nuts because my 
wife' phone sometimes gets into the receiver as well. 

Jim K3YBN



Message: 4
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:03:03 + (UTC)
From: Jeff Kincaid 
To: Tim Shoppa , "ws6x@gmail.com"
 
Cc: topBand List 
Subject: Re: Topband: Speaking of Noises...
Message-ID: <587619042.4047365.1519326183...@mail.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

I think I'm hearing two groups of four bursts, with the first burst from the 
second transmitter coinciding with the last burst from the first transmitter.? 
Anyone agree?
Jeff W6JK 

    On Thursday, February 22, 2018 10:51 AM, Tim Shoppa  
wrote:
 

 Here is a recording (made on 80M a few years ago but sounds substantially
the same on 160M) of what I'm told is the Wallops Island Ionosonde:

http://n3qe.org/wumwum_80M.wav

Here is the waveform showing 4 louder cycles followed by three softer
cycles:

http://n3qe.org/wumwum.png

If you look at the second panel of the waveform, you see a 20Hz
substructure in the pulses.

Even though I'm sitting in once place with a 2.4kHz filter making this
recording, I understand that the actual spectrum occupied is wider and it
cycles through the bands repeating on a several minute cycle.

Tim N3QE 

   
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Re: Topband: No DXwatch cluster for two days now?

[Lee. KX4TT via Topband]

Looks like DXWatch just came back


Lee KX4TT

-Original Message-
From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of terry
burge
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2018 13:40 
To: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Topband: No DXwatch cluster for two days now?

Anyone got any idea what is going on with DXwatch side? Haven't been able to
pull it up for two days and had to shift to DXSummit.fi. Personally, I hope
it will be back on for this weekends 160M CQ SSB contest. I always enjoy
that one when I can get on it and bump head with the big boys.


Terry

KI7M

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Re: Topband: No DXwatch cluster for two days now?

[Hal Dale]

Don't know but experiencing same here...Thought it may have been my 
problemHal/WB4AEG




 On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:02:36 -0500 Guy Olinger K2AV 
k2av@gmail.com wrote 




The RBN reports and filters are gone as well. Usually a break like this 

indicates a difficult upgrade, or some problem they haven't figured out 

yet, or both. Perhaps Pete has some inside dope? 

 

73, Guy K2AV. 

 

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 1:39 PM, terry burge k...@comcast.net wrote: 

 

 Anyone got any idea what is going on with DXwatch side? Haven't been able 

 to pull it up for two days and had to shift to DXSummit.fi. Personally, I 

 hope it will be back on for this weekends 160M CQ SSB contest. I always 

 enjoy that one when I can get on it and bump head with the big boys. 

 

 

 Terry 

 

 KI7M 

 

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Re: Topband: No DXwatch cluster for two days now?

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

The RBN reports and filters are gone as well. Usually a break like this
indicates a difficult upgrade, or some problem they haven't figured out
yet, or both. Perhaps Pete has some inside dope?

73, Guy K2AV.

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 1:39 PM, terry burge  wrote:

> Anyone got any idea what is going on with DXwatch side? Haven't been able
> to pull it up for two days and had to shift to DXSummit.fi. Personally, I
> hope it will be back on for this weekends 160M CQ SSB contest. I always
> enjoy that one when I can get on it and bump head with the big boys.
>
>
> Terry
>
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Topband: No DXwatch cluster for two days now?

[terry burge]

Anyone got any idea what is going on with DXwatch side? Haven't been able to 
pull it up for two days and had to shift to DXSummit.fi. Personally, I hope it 
will be back on for this weekends 160M CQ SSB contest. I always enjoy that one 
when I can get on it and bump head with the big boys.


Terry

KI7M

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Re: Topband: CQ WW SSB Contest

[Roger Kennedy]

Yes I forgot about the contest George !
 
Well I will be on, trying to pick out the DX stations on SSB, between all
the strong Europeans !
 
(at least my new 160m receive loop makes the EU stations weaker, whereas the
DX is as strong or stronger than on my main Antenna)
 
Hope to work some of you on SSB this weekend
 
73 Roger G3YRO
 
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From: George Taft [mailto:w8...@yahoo.com] 
Sent: 23 February 2018 16:55
To: rayn6vr; Kenneth Grimm; Roger Kennedy
Cc: topband
Subject: Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night


Hi All


Roger, I wouldn't get too excited abt this weekend QRV.  Remember we have
the CQWW160 SSB test!  Doesn't do much for DX, hi.


And Ken, I was listening when you worked UK9AA.   Unfortunately, noisy with
early Spring QRN and a new Indian Casino in my nearby NE path.
Fortunately, I worked Fedor on a quiet nite some time ago.  He apparently
hears very well.


Now if we could get some prop into W8 from the VU and EX actives.  


73  George  W8UVZ


On Thursday, February 22, 2018 11:33 AM, rayn6vr  wrote:



Ken,Good catch! Heard i u calling uk9aa but never heard him. He's been
spotted a lot but it would take some very special /weird condx for us to
hear him.
Otherwise, checked the band several times but never heard EU last nigjt,
0500 - 0800z, EU SR.
Ray,Near Prescott, AZ


Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
 Original message From: Kenneth Grimm  Date:
2/22/18  6:03 AM  (GMT-07:00) To: Roger Kennedy
 Cc: topband 
Subject: Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night 
Thanks for the QSO Roger.  If it were not for your exhortation to be on the
band on Wednesday evenings, I would have missed a QSO with UK9AA.  That's a
fairly rare one from this side of the pond.

73,

Ken - K4XL

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 5:48 AM, Roger Kennedy <
ro...@wessexproductions.co.uk> wrote:

> Well conditions were strange last night . . .
>
> Generally poor propagation . . . and high background noise here (even on
my
> Rx aerial) - apologies if you were one of the stations I heard calling,
but
> couldn't pull out of the noise.
>
> However, I did manage to work 16 NA stations in the 2 hours I stayed on,
> including across to Texas.
>
> What was more weird was some of my RBN reports from NA stations (which I
> often view when the band's quiet, to check propagation) - several gave me
> over 40dB above the noise, one even +48dB !
>
> Thanks to everyone who came on (inc several EU stations) . . .
>
> I shall be on at the weekend, and certainly next Wednesday again.
>
> 73 Roger G3YRO
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Topband: brief opening on topband today

[John Randall via Topband]

This afternoon, I had my flex 3k on 1.850 when I saw a trong station a bit 
lower down on the waterfall display and found it to ne S52AW Karl calling CQ at 
16h58z,I answered his call and we had a pleasant ssb qso till he just faded 
into the noise, the qso lasted about 2 minutes. This coincided with a drop in 
the K-INDEX, which dropped from 5 to about 2.I also worked RW1F last night just 
before 22h00z and I am as happy as a pig in mud...hi
There is some hope with my antenna system albeit a small one. 
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Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

[George Taft via Topband]

Hi All
Roger, I wouldn't get too excited abt this weekend QRV.  Remember we have the 
CQWW160 SSB test!  Doesn't do much for DX, hi.
And Ken, I was listening when you worked UK9AA.   Unfortunately, noisy with 
early Spring QRN and a new Indian Casino in my nearby NE path.   Fortunately, I 
worked Fedor on a quiet nite some time ago.  He apparently hears very well.
Now if we could get some prop into W8 from the VU and EX actives.  
73  George  W8UVZ 

On Thursday, February 22, 2018 11:33 AM, rayn6vr  wrote:
 

 Ken,Good catch! Heard i u calling uk9aa but never heard him. He's been spotted 
a lot but it would take some very special /weird condx for us to hear him.
Otherwise, checked the band several times but never heard EU last nigjt, 0500 - 
0800z, EU SR.
Ray,Near Prescott, AZ


Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
 Original message From: Kenneth Grimm  Date: 
2/22/18  6:03 AM  (GMT-07:00) To: Roger Kennedy  
Cc: topband  Subject: Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX 
Activity Night 
Thanks for the QSO Roger.  If it were not for your exhortation to be on the
band on Wednesday evenings, I would have missed a QSO with UK9AA.  That's a
fairly rare one from this side of the pond.

73,

Ken - K4XL

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 5:48 AM, Roger Kennedy <
ro...@wessexproductions.co.uk> wrote:

> Well conditions were strange last night . . .
>
> Generally poor propagation . . . and high background noise here (even on my
> Rx aerial) - apologies if you were one of the stations I heard calling, but
> couldn't pull out of the noise.
>
> However, I did manage to work 16 NA stations in the 2 hours I stayed on,
> including across to Texas.
>
> What was more weird was some of my RBN reports from NA stations (which I
> often view when the band's quiet, to check propagation) - several gave me
> over 40dB above the noise, one even +48dB !
>
> Thanks to everyone who came on (inc several EU stations) . . .
>
> I shall be on at the weekend, and certainly next Wednesday again.
>
> 73 Roger G3YRO
>
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