Topband: 160m nice condx tonight
Hey gentlemen, what a nice 160m opening to NA tonight. I worked 10x NA with good signals.Hope the condx will be also fine the next days on topband. https://youtu.be/n9CndQAPhg0?si=z2lX-_fGAgppvhJA 73 Andy DL8LAS www.dl8las.com _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Timor Leste Nov 17 ( Dietmar Kasper)
On 11/16/2023 10:07 AM, Salvatore Borace wrote: Hi Dietmar, dont pay attention for many lazy people want FT8 Salvatore, FT8 is a weak signal mode, providing the advantage of about 15 dB more noise rejection than CW. From my QTH near San Francisco, I haven't heard EU on CW for 3 years; in 8 years, I've heard 6 EU stations, and two have heard me. When I moved here from Chicago in 2006, I was able to work EU on CW. The difference is MUCH louder noise on both ends of the QSO. All with the same TX and RX antennas, including a 100 ft Tee-vertical, a 550 ft Beverage to EU, and a two-element array of phased loops spaced 5/8 wavelength. 73, Jim K9YC _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: Tomor Leste 4W8X
THANKS Dieter for being on top band CW. Top band is almost ( like 6 meters ) destroyed /killed by FT 8. Real pleasure to listen to you and friends running CW, especially on top band. GREAT. Understanding,,,how you dig out signals in qsb and qrn.And knowledge about conditions to different areas.Thats Ham radio for ME. ’ Agree ,I have never and will never work FT 8,because I also love to do it myself. BUT I accept ,of course, that others,enjoy the PC business. I am sure.Before expedition ends, most Hams that like top band CW have worked you and the other expeditioners. THANKS also for putting so much money in to help us. Kind regards Hans SM6CVX _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Timor Leste Nov 17 ( Dietmar Kasper)
Hi Dietmar, dont pay attention for many lazy people want FT8 on TB, anyway i have good copy of you mostly every evening but unfortunatly this time i running only 100w, Hope condition improve and i'm lucky like 80m where i make qso with my 100w. Rino _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: Timor Leste report Nov 17
Hi topbanders. Propagation has become worse. After making a new remote US beverage out of the village we today built another remote EU beverage. It is silent, too silent ? Feeding 75 Ohms TV cable is about 450 meters long. At the evening I needed a break, so station was taken over by another operator to try FT8. He mostly worked JA and a few US we almost have worked the night before in CW. The source of noise we were able to detect by turning the 6m beam. It is the village power distribution :-( Back to the band now but 160m is completely dead. Listened to VK6LW who was CQing for while but worked nobody. A pity, so I cannot test new EU beverage. 80m op stated, that it workes, 80m is open a little bit. In cluster I read anonymus complaint about only working FT8 for NA and Asia. The situation is that we are running FT8 when CW does not result in any contacts. Why not to EU ? I myself did not and will not work any FT8. Same as I have to accept that some people use this mode they must accept vise versa that I dont work FT8. Our operator does but he stops when he go sleep. He runs 160m FT8 attended. As I know DXCC rule state that automatic contacts do not count for DXCC so station must be attended during traffic. I have heard that some DXped dont care about it and running the station unattended because there is no way of proof, BUT WE DO CARE. With better RX capabilities also the EU demand will be reduced for sure. I am impatient the band may open soon. 73 Dietmar DL3DXX _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
