Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Agreed. I have a modest (read sub-par) station but was thrilled to work 2 UK stations and a score of NA. Most nights I need to go to 80 for Qs. A 160 Activity Night (DX or not) could more occasionally light up the band! 73 de Ed, K1RID Newburyport Electronics & Radio Society www.k1yrd.org

Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

It's so frustrating that you always hear hundreds of stations on Top Band whenever there's a contest on, or when there's some DX-pedition active on the band . . . yet most of the time the band is dead ! I find it even more frustrating that there's often people posting lots stations that are on

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Hmm, this last week was still hitting RBN over there, and worked G3OLB two different days a little before his sunrise. One of those was a long lovely old time 599 QSO with Tom, like I was working someone in Ohio on 80 meters. It might be "season" over, but 160 sure isn't over, at least not yet.

Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Yes, you're probably right Ed. But the band is certainly still open to North America at this time of year, and we rarely have any thunderstorms causing QRN on the band until August. I'll certainly be on again tonight (from around 0100Z), and I'm sure other Europeans will be too. 73 Roger G3YRO

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Roger. My guess is that it is considered "season over" by most of the boys. I rarely get on 160M after early April unless there is a specific DXpedition on. I don't think I am alone. In some cases, people even lose antenna options for the summer due to coexisting with farmers and other

Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Well where has all the activity gone?! The band seemed open, based on RBN reports . . . But I didn't hear a single NA station. (I didn't hear any of the other European stations on work anyone either) Roger G3YRO _ Topband Reflector Archives -

Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Well there were a few stations on last Wednesday . . . Hope there will be some more on this week ! 73 Roger G3YRO _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

The past few evenings all I've been noticed by are RBN, apart from a few die-hard Top Banders like AA1K, K4IQJ and DU7ET. These are some of the blokes who don't let a few summer atmospherics deter them. 73, Luke VK3HJ _ Topband Reflector Archives -

Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Well the band is still open for DX between NA and Europe, as shown when I come on and get some great reports from various RBN stations . . . But do I have any real contacts? No ! Because I guess there is no activity. Those of you (like me) who complain that these FT8 stations are not having

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

David, I very much enjoyed our simple QSO last night. Ignore the idiots who are reduced to being pests. They happen to turn up everywhere. By the way, the QSO was very useful: I was testing the new 160 m antenna that we will be taking to KH1. As you may know, the USFWS is limiting us to

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

ch 30, 2018 10:00 AM To: 'VK3HJ' ; topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night Hi Steve This evening (29 March) was much better, a number of RBN responses from AA4VV, VE7CC-7 and W4KKN. It opened up around 10:45z. Thanks for the QSOs with VE3MGY, N0FW and N7U

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Roger, I heard you well on 1827 tonight but called for about 30 minutes and just gave up. Your signal in the QRN was 369 most of the time, High tropical QRN here. On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 5:27 PM, Roger Kennedy < ro...@wessexproductions.co.uk> wrote: > > Well, I'm not sure if it has been poor

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

PM To: vk2wf; topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night Adrian, You are about 600 km north of me. That is certainly a sufficient distance to make a difference. Steve VK7CW is about 550 km south of me. I forgot to mention, Wednesday morning around

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

VHF is fun, yes. But keep in mind that in the southern hemisphere it's winter when we have our summer. And there are times in our summer when it's quiet and we can work them on 160. :-) 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Thu, Mar 29, 2018, 11:41 AM David Olean wrote: > ...My goal

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

...@metrocast.net] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 12:42 To: Lee. KX4TT <kx...@yahoo.com>; 'Roger Kennedy' <ro...@wessexproductions.co.uk>; topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night I thought of that, Lee. I think I was at least 1 kHz below wherever TJ2TT show

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

, March 29, 2018 11:31 To: Roger Kennedy <ro...@wessexproductions.co.uk>; topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night Roger, I was QRV for awhile, but seem to have attracted someone who hated my guts. I was QRMed while trying to work stations. they put a carrier

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of David Olean Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 11:31 To: Roger Kennedy <ro...@wessexproductions.co.uk>; topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night Roger, I was QRV for awhile, but seem to have attracted someone who hated my g

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Roger, I was QRV for awhile, but seem to have attracted someone who hated my guts. I was QRMed while trying to work stations. they put a carrier on top of the stations I tried to work. They QRMed the dx station and were sending false signal reports in hopes of confusing me.   Then they came

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Rats. I was working on my Johnson Valiant last night and forgot it was 160 activity night. I have maybe 2 to 3 more weeks before the BOG and RBOG antennas get taken down as well as the INV-L radials get removed. I keep one or two radials rolled up and connected during the summer so I can

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

You were 579 in VT but you could not hear my 100W. On 3/29/2018 5:55 AM, Roger Kennedy wrote: Well conditions seemed pretty good last night . . . my RBN reports were certainly encouraging from several NA stations - one was even 49 dB over the noise ! However, there was a distinct lack of

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Some of us in the W9 area now have to start contending with spring storms which raises the noise level considerably, and many folks are now beginning to take down 160 RX stuff ahead of summer. It may be a summertime lull, picking back up again in the fall wt2p -- WT2P http://www.wt2p.com

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Roger They are all on FT8 more or less. Then you do not need to hear the station you work, and you can even stay late in bed. Computer fix all QSO, for you. Unfortunately , this is killing our hobby, IF arrl is not making it a separate award ,, for NO hearing QSO´+ s… BUT they do not

Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Well conditions seemed pretty good last night . . . my RBN reports were certainly encouraging from several NA stations - one was even 49 dB over the noise ! However, there was a distinct lack of activity - I stayed on from 0100Z for nearly 2 hours, but only worked 9 NA stations. Nothing like the

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Adrian, You are about 600 km north of me. That is certainly a sufficient distance to make a difference. Steve VK7CW is about 550 km south of me. I forgot to mention, Wednesday morning around 2030z I tried for Europe, and as per Wednesday evening, absolutely nothing in the log, nor any signals

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

We've been expecting 7Q7EI to show up but in vain. Looks like it's time to quit with this one. >Среда, 28 марта 2018, 21:27 UTC от Roger Kennedy >: > > >Well, I'm not sure if it has been poor conditions, or a just a lack of >activity . . . > >But I've not heard

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

the Telstra Mobile Network > Original message From: VK3HJ < > vk3hj_l...@barefoothorse.com.au> Date: 29/3/18 10:08 am (GMT+10:00) To: > topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity > Night > Wednesday night was positively awful from V

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Wednesday night was positively awful from VK3. I called CQ for nearly an hour and gave up with no calls, and only local RBN reporting. By contrast, Tuesday night was quite good to NA, with a number of USA and a handful of Canadian stations, and one Japanese station calling! 73, Luke VK3HJ

Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Well, I'm not sure if it has been poor conditions, or a just a lack of activity . . . But I've not heard many North American stations on the band lately. Hopefully we'll have some activity tonight ! I'll be on as usual (about 1.828) from around Z . . . there's usually other Europeans on

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Hi Dave, Although I made my first 160 QSO using a DX100 and a re-tuned car radio for a receiver in 1959 (a VE7 no less) I've not really been a regular on topband.  Last year it dawned on me that if I got a 160 DXCC I would have 9 bands, so that became a goal.  I now have it worked but need

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

ke he has >>plans for a bigger, more permanent antenna. Here in Iowa QRN levels are >>beginning to come up with the arrival of spring weather although winter >>hasn't quite given up yet. >>73. . .Dave, W0FLS >> >> >>-Original Message- >&g

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

5:50 PM >To: topband@contesting.com >Subject: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night > > >Well hopefully we'll get some stations on the band tonight ! > >I'll be on around 1828kHz from about Z . . . > >Hope you'll be on too > >73 Roger G3

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Hi Wes, I got home late (0100 UT) from a school band performance (grandkids!) and found no activity to speak of. I hoped to find G3YRO but no luck.  QRN levels from lightning had dropped towards Europe but there was zilch for activity. My fault that I did not stick around after 0230UT.   I

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Worked PJ5/SP2GCJ @0315 for a new one for me.  OA4TT would have been a new one too  (I'm a newby).  He was quite strong but the one time he replied to me he didn't have my complete call, missing the "s", and he gave up and went back to CQ very quickly (I thought). HC2AO was ESP, at best.

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

@contesting.com Subject: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night Well hopefully we'll get some stations on the band tonight ! I'll be on around 1828kHz from about Z . . . Hope you'll be on too 73 Roger G3YRO _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Hmmm - local QRM (lights from nearby baseball field) made early evening copy tough on CW, so I booted up WSJT-X and saw some EU stations there (5B4AIF was steady copy, and some other EU stations would show up from time to time), from 0100-0200. Not the best conditions, but also not the worst.

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Listening in AZ.  nil so far. 0300Z On 3/21/2018 3:50 PM, Roger Kennedy wrote: Well hopefully we'll get some stations on the band tonight ! I'll be on around 1828kHz from about Z . . . Hope you'll be on too 73 Roger G3YRO _ Topband Reflector Archives -

Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Well hopefully we'll get some stations on the band tonight ! I'll be on around 1828kHz from about Z . . . Hope you'll be on too 73 Roger G3YRO _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband

Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Well conditions have been rather poor over the past week or so . . . And even when the band has been open, there have been very few stations on. Hopefully there will be some activity tonight ! 73 Roger G3YRO _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband

Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Well signals from Russia seem back up to normal strength this evening . . . for the first time in over a week So I'm hoping propagation to NA will have improved too! I'll be on from around 2330Z . . . hope we get some activity to find out ! Roger G3YRO _ Topband Reflector

Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Well conditions were still very poor last night! It was also noisier than normal, as we have quite a lot of snow here at the moment (very unusual for us in Britain these days!) - so, sorry if you were one of the stations that called me that I couldn't pull out of the noise. However, I did

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

I got back into the shack a little late for EU sunrise after the 0300-0400z CWT but hope we had some good participation on 160. 73, WT2P -- WT2P http://www.wt2p.com On 3/1/2018 12:52 AM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote: Activity was way down on FT8 as well. On 2/28/2018 7:56 AM, Roger Kennedy

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Activity was way down on FT8 as well. On 2/28/2018 7:56 AM, Roger Kennedy wrote: Conditions have been rather poor since the end of last week . . . (only managed a few American contacts on the CQ WW SSB contest.) However, I was on last night on CW and was Spotted, and received by NA RBN

Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Conditions have been rather poor since the end of last week . . . (only managed a few American contacts on the CQ WW SSB contest.) However, I was on last night on CW and was Spotted, and received by NA RBN stations. But no actual Contacts !! Hopefully there will be some activity tonight. I

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

essage From: Kenneth Grimm <gr...@sbc.edu> Date: 2/22/18  6:03 AM  (GMT-07:00) To: Roger Kennedy <ro...@wessexproductions.co.uk> Cc: topband <topband@contesting.com> Subject: Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night Thanks for the QSO Roger.  If it were not for your exhor

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Original message From: Kenneth Grimm <gr...@sbc.edu> Date: 2/22/18 6:03 AM (GMT-07:00) To: Roger Kennedy <ro...@wessexproductions.co.uk> Cc: topband <topband@contesting.com> Subject: Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night Thanks

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Roger G3YRO and a French station (F6AGM?) made it into the log.I heard several other EU stations with nice signals but did not work them as they were in QSO and my operating time was only during TV commercials as I was watching the Olympics. I worked UK9AA last month and tried to work him

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>

Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

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

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

ennedy<mailto:ro...@wessexproductions.co.uk> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 5:28 AM To: topband@contesting.com<mailto:topband@contesting.com> Subject: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night Conditions have been rather poor the last few evenings . . . or is it just lack of acti

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

;mailto:topband@contesting.com> Subject: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night Conditions have been rather poor the last few evenings . . . or is it just lack of activity?! Well, I'll be on this tonight from around 2330Z, so hopefully lots of others will be too So we'll find out ! 73 Ro

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

You will have to excuse me, as 2330z is 1030l and the sun will have been up for 3.5 hours. I will be trying around my sunrise from now until the end of summer, around 2000z for Europe, except on contest weekends. 73, Luke VK3HJ _ Topband Reflector Archives -

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

wccta.net> Odoslané: 21. februára 2018 10:49:21 Komu: topband@contesting.com Predmet: Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night Roger, For me the change was on Saturday. I thought conditions were much better on Friday night / Saturday morning, then they were Saturday night Sunday morning. O

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Roger, For me the change was on Saturday.  I thought conditions were much better on Friday night / Saturday morning, then they were Saturday night Sunday morning.  Only speaking for my station, since then signals from EU have not been as strong as they were on Friday night / Saturday morning.

Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night

Conditions have been rather poor the last few evenings . . . or is it just lack of activity?! Well, I'll be on this tonight from around 2330Z, so hopefully lots of others will be too So we'll find out ! 73 Roger G3YRO Regards _ Topband Reflector Archives -

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity night

Contest coming soon !  Jean-Paul - F6FYA. Envoyé de mon smartphone BlackBerry 10 sur le réseau Orange.   Message d'origine   De: uy...@mksat.net Envoyé: mercredi 14 février 2018 10:06 À: Roger Kennedy Cc: topband@contesting.com Objet: Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity night Hi Today

Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity night

Hi Today at night WKD 41 station W/VE Only my CQ. VA- 6 NH - 4 MA - 4 OH - 3 LA- 2, FL-2, MI - 2, NJ - 2 TX, RI, AR, KY, SC, MD, ME, PA, CT, AL VE1, VE2, VE3, VE9, VY2 W7WM - super signal ! qrz.com qth - CO . Really ? Good night ! > Just a reminder . . . > > Conditions were excellent on Top

Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity night

Just a reminder . . . Conditions were excellent on Top Band last night So hopefully we'll have lots of stations on this evening ! (do also check around 1845 - 1850 kHz for SSB stations) 73 Roger G3YRO _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband