Re: Topband: Some photos and video from our KH6AQ portable operation in the December Stew Perry TBDC
You guys rocked! S9 up to +20 here in the Seattle area for hours. Only signal from KH6/7 like that, for that long, came from the legendary Jack Wheeler, KH6CC. Big shoes to fill. I'm guessing your toes should be feeling a little bit pinched by now. Great job! Looking for you in the CQ WW 160. 73 Patrick, W7TMT -Original Message- From: Topband On Behalf Of Rob Van Geen Sent: Monday, January 1, 2024 16:37 To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Topband: Some photos and video from our KH6AQ portable operation in the December Stew Perry TBDC Dave and I (Rob, NH6V) have been enjoying experimenting with antenna setups on the east coast of the "Big Island" of Hawai'i in several of the 160 contests since December 2022. We run 1500W to a full-size 1/4λ wire sloping ~50° up to the top of a 150' Cook pine tree across the road from the beach. It runs off of two 130' elevated radials that run parallel to the coastline and perpendicular to the direction of North America and Europe.. 35°. The feedpoint is back about 25' from the ocean and it even gets occasionally hit by the large crashing surf (!). A pretty ideal antenna, as it turns out. For RX this year, it was necessary to deploy a single direction K9AY loop in order to null out a new, S-3 (at 3 kHz bw) power line noise emanating from the neighborhood about 1km to the northwest. We didn't experience this noise for the ARRL 160. Unfortunately, the noise is also coming from the same direction as Japan. So this ended up being our sole receive antenna, and we must say that it was most beneficial and kudos go out to K9AY for this especially innovative antenna design. Thank you, Gary! Driving 4' ground rods into the lava rocks wasn't too easy. There was also a good amount of seawater wetted sand to help lower the resistance - we're guessing no better than about 100Ω. Thanks for the QSOs! Your participation is greatly appreciated by all. We hope to continue operating from this portable location in all future 160 contests. Look for our report with additional details on www.3830scores.com - to be updated within the next couple of days. Album with photos and some video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/5LC1srprU1F9SsTW9 Rob - NH6V _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Some photos and video from our KH6AQ portable operation in the December Stew Perry TBDC
Great writeup and pictures/video Rob. Your signal the second morning was very strong here. Tree N6TR / K7RAT On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 4:37 PM Rob Van Geen wrote: > Dave and I (Rob, NH6V) have been enjoying experimenting with antenna setups > on the east coast of the "Big Island" of Hawai'i in several of the 160 > contests since December 2022. > > We run 1500W to a full-size 1/4λ wire sloping ~50° up to the top of a 150' > Cook pine tree across the road from the beach. It runs off of two 130' > elevated radials that run parallel to the coastline and perpendicular to > the direction of North America and Europe.. 35°. The feedpoint is back > about 25' from the ocean and it even gets occasionally hit by the large > crashing surf (!). A pretty ideal antenna, as it turns out. > > For RX this year, it was necessary to deploy a single direction K9AY loop > in order to null out a new, S-3 (at 3 kHz bw) power line noise > emanating from the neighborhood about 1km to the northwest. We didn't > experience this noise for the ARRL 160. Unfortunately, the noise is also > coming from the same direction as Japan. So this ended up being our sole > receive antenna, and we must say that it was most beneficial and kudos go > out to K9AY for this especially innovative antenna design. Thank you, Gary! > > Driving 4' ground rods into the lava rocks wasn't too easy. There was also > a good amount of seawater wetted sand to help lower the resistance - we're > guessing no better than about 100Ω. > > Thanks for the QSOs! Your participation is greatly appreciated by all. We > hope to continue operating from this portable location in all future 160 > contests. > > Look for our report with additional details on www.3830scores.com - to be > updated within the next couple of days. > > Album with photos and some video: > https://photos.app.goo.gl/5LC1srprU1F9SsTW9 > > Rob - NH6V > _ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: Some photos and video from our KH6AQ portable operation in the December Stew Perry TBDC
Dave and I (Rob, NH6V) have been enjoying experimenting with antenna setups on the east coast of the "Big Island" of Hawai'i in several of the 160 contests since December 2022. We run 1500W to a full-size 1/4λ wire sloping ~50° up to the top of a 150' Cook pine tree across the road from the beach. It runs off of two 130' elevated radials that run parallel to the coastline and perpendicular to the direction of North America and Europe.. 35°. The feedpoint is back about 25' from the ocean and it even gets occasionally hit by the large crashing surf (!). A pretty ideal antenna, as it turns out. For RX this year, it was necessary to deploy a single direction K9AY loop in order to null out a new, S-3 (at 3 kHz bw) power line noise emanating from the neighborhood about 1km to the northwest. We didn't experience this noise for the ARRL 160. Unfortunately, the noise is also coming from the same direction as Japan. So this ended up being our sole receive antenna, and we must say that it was most beneficial and kudos go out to K9AY for this especially innovative antenna design. Thank you, Gary! Driving 4' ground rods into the lava rocks wasn't too easy. There was also a good amount of seawater wetted sand to help lower the resistance - we're guessing no better than about 100Ω. Thanks for the QSOs! Your participation is greatly appreciated by all. We hope to continue operating from this portable location in all future 160 contests. Look for our report with additional details on www.3830scores.com - to be updated within the next couple of days. Album with photos and some video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/5LC1srprU1F9SsTW9 Rob - NH6V _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: CT9ABO please send in your log!
Best 160m DX last night on Stew Perry Contest: CT9ABO Bearing 45.1° NE (from K4QET) Distance 4574.1 mi (7361.3 km) Madeira Island in N. Atlantic off of Morocco! 73 Mike On Mon, Jan 1, 2024, 12:01 PM wrote: > Send Topband mailing list submissions to > topband@contesting.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > topband-requ...@contesting.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > topband-ow...@contesting.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Topband digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > >1. Re: Stew Perry - first time entry (w3...@roadrunner.com) >2. Big Stew - A Wipe-out Down-Under (Phil Hartwell) >3. 2023 DECEMBER STEW (uy0zg) >4. Re: 2023 DECEMBER STEW (uy0zg) >5. Big Stew Perry 2023 (uy0zg) > > > -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 21:13:50 + > From: w3...@roadrunner.com > To: "'topband@contesting.com'" > Subject: Re: Topband: Stew Perry - first time entry > Message-ID: <3ff8c113d489a241d32b471675246af260a91fac@webmail> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > XYL has been in a moving furniture mood for several months. Fri she > had the visiting son in law move the home entertainment > center/TV/furniture. So Ive been trying to find the right wires for > the right speakers/devices ever since. A couple HDMI cables are too > short due to the chosen furniture relocation spots. Had to cobble > together 25 ft of tv cable to get the TV working in time for the Peach > Bowl. > > I missed the most active SP evening hours, but somewhere around 2 am I > remembered the SP so came into the shack. Nice quiet cndx. Good sigs > from VE7- W6, W7 land and a handful of Carrib dx + KH6. No euros or SA > heard. Band was moderately active so I stayed up til 4am local, caught > 2 hrs of sleep and operated til around 7:30am Ohio time. > > 164 Q's, > 110 GS > c. 4 hrs ota. > > Noticed as SR approached the QRN really began to pick up, so I pulled > the plug and slept into the afternoon. > > Nice casual operating. > > Will submit the log next year ( tomorrow.) > > > > > > -- > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2024 18:20:27 +0800 > From: Phil Hartwell > To: topband@contesting.com > Subject: Topband: Big Stew - A Wipe-out Down-Under > Message-ID: <8d9d1297-898e-41a7-ba45-ed82a81f9...@yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Greetings Topbanders, > > I'm sorry to say the Stew was just about a non-event in this part of the > world. The only stateside station I heard/worked was Tree, K7RAT, within > the 1st hour, when he peaked up at his SR. The following evening (VK6 > time), I was set and ready to go, about 1/2 hour before my SS at 1123z, > hoping to snare a good few east coast W's, but it was a complete > wipe-out. The only station I heard was Ron, VK3IO, who was much weaker > than normal, when he worked Steve VK6VZ, with difficulty. I think the VK > contingent threw in the towel not long after that. I didn't hear or see > any trace of anyone from anywhere after that. > > It looks like things were much better in the northern hemisphere and I > hope you all enjoyed the event, with hopefully some new ones. > > Oh well, here's hoping for better next time, surely it couldn't be any > worse for us down-under. > > Happy New Year All, 73, Phil VK6GX. > > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. > www.avg.com > > -- > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2024 13:14:49 +0200 > From: uy0zg > To: Topband > Subject: Topband: 2023 DECEMBER STEW > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > Hi > > Probably the best result in Europe is SK3W: > > https://www.youtube.com/embed/Tof2rGSpyHg > > https://www.kkn.net/stew/STEWSCR.TXT > > In my log, the best ones from the US are MA operators. > > Five stations! > > > The conditions are weak, but very interesting. > > > Many from the US have excellent RX. > > > Couldn't get through to three people - W3DXX, K5KG, K3CCR. > > But it was still nice to listen to them. > -- > Nick, UY0ZG > http://www.topband.in.ua > > > > -- > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2024 13:27:07 +0200 > From: uy0zg > To: Topband > Subject: Re: Topband: 2023 DECEMBER STEW > Message-ID: <1d0df45e3c0871f8928f00766354c...@mksat.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > > Sorry, correction > > Couldn't get through to three people - N3DXX, K5KG, K3CCR. > > > > But it was still nice to listen to them. > --- > Nick, UY0ZG > http://www.topband.in.ua > > uy0zg via Topband ?(?) 2024-01-01 13:14: > > Hi > > > > Probably the best result in Europe
Topband: Big Stew Perry 2023
Well we had big storms again here in Britain a week ago . . . and the 10ft tall remains of a tree that I had a big pole lashed to (to hold the far end of my Dipole) was snapped off at the base ! So after the holiday I ordered a big angle iron . . . got it delivered . . . painted it with Hammerite . . . dug a big hole . . . concreted in the angle iron . . . then got the pole lashed to it, and then the Dipole back up . . . all in time for this weekend's Stew Perry Contest . . . But as others have mentioned, lousy conditions ! I popped on the band three times during the night . . . and only heard/worked 6 North American Stations. Even most Europeans were weaker than normal. Anyway . . . Happy New Year to all TopBanders ! 73 Roger G3YRO _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: Big Stew Perry 2023
I posted two audio recordings on the site: http://www.topband.in.ua/2024/01/01/big-stew-perry-2023-uy0zg-qsos-w2xl-k9om/ Listening to DX on 160 is comparable to listening to good music. FT lovers are depriving themselves of such pleasure. They look at the computer monitor and instead of music they see only notes. -- Nick, UY0ZG http://www.topband.in.ua _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: 2023 DECEMBER STEW
Sorry, correction Couldn't get through to three people - N3DXX, K5KG, K3CCR. But it was still nice to listen to them. --- Nick, UY0ZG http://www.topband.in.ua uy0zg via Topband писал(а) 2024-01-01 13:14: Hi Probably the best result in Europe is SK3W: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Tof2rGSpyHg https://www.kkn.net/stew/STEWSCR.TXT In my log, the best ones from the US are MA operators. Five stations! The conditions are weak, but very interesting. Many from the US have excellent RX. Couldn't get through to three people - W3DXX, K5KG, K3CCR. But it was still nice to listen to them. -- Nick, UY0ZG http://www.topband.in.ua _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: 2023 DECEMBER STEW
Hi Probably the best result in Europe is SK3W: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Tof2rGSpyHg https://www.kkn.net/stew/STEWSCR.TXT In my log, the best ones from the US are MA operators. Five stations! The conditions are weak, but very interesting. Many from the US have excellent RX. Couldn't get through to three people - W3DXX, K5KG, K3CCR. But it was still nice to listen to them. -- Nick, UY0ZG http://www.topband.in.ua _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: Big Stew - A Wipe-out Down-Under
Greetings Topbanders, I'm sorry to say the Stew was just about a non-event in this part of the world. The only stateside station I heard/worked was Tree, K7RAT, within the 1st hour, when he peaked up at his SR. The following evening (VK6 time), I was set and ready to go, about 1/2 hour before my SS at 1123z, hoping to snare a good few east coast W's, but it was a complete wipe-out. The only station I heard was Ron, VK3IO, who was much weaker than normal, when he worked Steve VK6VZ, with difficulty. I think the VK contingent threw in the towel not long after that. I didn't hear or see any trace of anyone from anywhere after that. It looks like things were much better in the northern hemisphere and I hope you all enjoyed the event, with hopefully some new ones. Oh well, here's hoping for better next time, surely it couldn't be any worse for us down-under. Happy New Year All, 73, Phil VK6GX. -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
