Roger,
Just to add some perspective from Western NA, the 160m conditions have been
absolutely horrible for the last month.
The goe-magnetic activity and AU levels have been so high that the trans-polar
path to Europe has been shut down completely for 5 weeks, except for one
evening.
Perhaps
FWIW, a lot of us in NA are beginning to deal with fairly significant
amounts of springtime QRN (myself included). It is, after all, that
time of year.
73. . . Dave, W0FLS
On 3/26/2021 5:05 PM, Roger Kennedy wrote:
Quite a lot of us Europeans come on the band each night calling CQ DX . . .
This morning (around 2030z) at my sunrise, I worked two DL and a G on CW. I had
+7 dB at an OE9 rbn. There was some propagation. There were few stations on.
I then went and wasted electricity calling A25RU on 80 m CW.
Please get on CW so I can work a few more Eu before the path closes until the
Quite a lot of us Europeans come on the band each night calling CQ DX . . .
but getting very few replies.
According to RBN reports, DX Propagation across the pond seems reasonable .
. .
So is it just that there are very few American stations coming on 160 these
days?
Roger G3YRO
On 3/26/2021 7:21 AM, N4ZR wrote:
OK, I did it again. Discovered that I had not connected my radial field
to the ground side of my inverted L feedpoint. It was working just
against a single 8-foot ground rod. The difference is startling -
resonance is now at 1825 KHz, and R is down to 40
OK, I did it again. Discovered that I had not connected my radial field
to the ground side of my inverted L feedpoint. It was working just
against a single 8-foot ground rod. The difference is startling -
resonance is now at 1825 KHz, and R is down to 40 ohms - still not good,
but certainly
>I have been trying to replace my inverted L, which broke a few weeks ago, and
>am having all sorts of puzzlements. Please be kind - I was a history major. 1.
> The inverted L broke at the turn, so I went looking for sturdier >wire. I
>wound up with some #14 insulated recommended by our local
It depends. If you have two or more verticals for a phased antenna,
and full length radials, the points where the ground systems intersect
is where the radials should be terminated and bonded to copper strap
running along the boundary where they cross each other. If you have
an out building in
Good grief! Do I need to dig up and locate the ends, and connect all of my 60
buried radials now?
It was a big enough job planting 2000 m of wire in the first place.
I took care to seal the end of each of the PVC insulated ground radials, with
the aim of reducing water ingress and corrosion.
73,
