Re: Topband: CQ World Wide 160-Meter Contest
Typically the station used by N2AA goes by W2GD. Tree N6TR / K7RAT On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 7:29 PM wrote: > N2AA is the "Loud Is Good Contest Club" so I guess their name is > appropriate:) > > John KK9A > > > Nick UY0ZG wrote: > > The loudest station from the United States was N2AA. > -- > Nick, UY0ZG > > > _ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: CQ World Wide 160-Meter Contest
N2AA is the "Loud Is Good Contest Club" so I guess their name is appropriate:) John KK9A Nick UY0ZG wrote: The loudest station from the United States was N2AA. -- Nick, UY0ZG _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: CQ160
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Topband: CQ World Wide 160-Meter Contest
Hi It all worked out for me. The goal was to hear as many North American and Caribbean stations as possible. The result is 40 QSOs with stations from the USA and 5 from Canada + PJ2,P4,KP2 I have sound recordings of all QSOs. If anyone is interested, I can send the file after February 3. The loudest station from the United States was N2AA. Made a video of the P40AA : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HyU7GdYWxQ_channel=UY0ZGTOPBAND Most of the U.S. connections were made after my dawn. Unfortunately, this morning I was unable to make connections to the interesting states - KV0Q, NI0G, W8MJ. I heard them very quietly. But this is a feature of the conditions. -- Nick, UY0ZG http://www.topband.in.ua _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: CQWW160: Night 2
Could have been band conditions not working very well. Felt like a thick cold blanket was on top of the band last night. This morning - normally very loud stations in MT were just regular signals - not much stronger than BY4SZ. Only managed one JA QSO with JH4UYB this morning. JA3YBK could not hear me. Band was quiet - but very attenuated. Surprised however to work 3W1T right at sunrise and 4F2KWT before that. Heard a few other DU's but they were not hearing me. Tree N6TR / K7RAT On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 12:37 PM Jim Brown wrote: > On 1/29/2023 9:25 AM, w3...@roadrunner.com wrote: > > had to run the 52' vertical- 0.25 wave 160m > > INV-L against a single ground rod. But it works quite well, even so. > > It wasn't "working quite well" when you were buried in my noise last > night. We worked, but it wasn't easy. Thanks for the QSO. > > 73, Jim K9YC > _ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: CQWW160: Night 2
On 1/29/2023 9:25 AM, w3...@roadrunner.com wrote: had to run the 52' vertical- 0.25 wave 160m INV-L against a single ground rod. But it works quite well, even so. It wasn't "working quite well" when you were buried in my noise last night. We worked, but it wasn't easy. Thanks for the QSO. 73, Jim K9YC _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: CQWW160: Night 2
Not so many Euros into Ohio in the same 2200-0200z time frame. But as the evening wore one , a few more were heard, but still tough sledding to work them. Many QRZ's and my partial call heard but then they reverted to CQing giving up on trying to pull me through. Now this year for the second straight year I failed to get my 26 radials unfurled, and had to run the 52' vertical- 0.25 wave 160m INV-L against a single ground rod. But it works quite well, even so. Often into Eu and sometimes VK/JA. But I have to think those radials do something, so my low angle radiation must be suffering at least a tiny bit. But domestically it doesnt seem to matter much in the usual contests. (Memo to me: put out the radials next November!) This morning I slid into the CQ Contest mode and got the QSOs up to 425 in 10 hours OTA, worked all states but AK and ND. And finished with 25 DX entities. But in general sigs werent strong enough to work enough of the delicious Euro multipliers to approach an alltime best score ( like a couple years back with great Euro openings!) However, the band was free of powerline noise, had no QRN, so listening was easier on the ears. One humorous event. I was on a good run when the keyclicks from filtering out a strong adjacent channel signal got to be annoying, so I slid up a hundred cycles or so and it disappeared. But a couple of qsos later it was back. So I slid up another 100 cycles and it went away. for a couple of qsos. After the third QSY I gave up, figuring the guy was doing the same thing. :) - _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
