Topband: K5P in Zone 14

2016-01-16 Thread Doug Turnbull
Dear OMs, Please do not think I am criticizing the team. So far at 17:27 GMT on Jan16 there has only been one 160M QSO with zone 14 which includes EI, G, DL etc.The propagation gods are not favouring us at all. K5P is a hard reach on most bands and once you go away from 17 through 40

Re: Topband: K5P in Zone 14

2016-01-16 Thread Roger D Johnson
According to Clublog's Leaderboard stations east of the Mississippi are almost nil. 73, Roger On 1/16/2016 12:58 PM, Jim Brown wrote: On Sat,1/16/2016 9:31 AM, Doug Turnbull wrote: The propagation gods are not favouring us at all. K5P is a hard reach on most bands and once you go away

Re: Topband: K5P in Zone 14

2016-01-16 Thread James C. Hall, MD
K5P was very loud last night and I had just thrown a 500' BOG down yesterday afternoon. Craig K9CT was at the key. I'm in NW TN, about 30 miles East of MS River. 73, Jamie WB4YDL Sent from my iPad > On Jan 16, 2016, at 12:27 PM, Roger D Johnson wrote: > > According to

Re: Topband: K5P in Zone 14

2016-01-16 Thread James C. Hall, MD
To: 'James C. Hall, MD' Subject: RE: Topband: K5P in Zone 14 Hello James! I see you have a 500 foot bog, I need some advice. I put down a 200 foot BOG for 80m & 160m. Seems to work well on 80 but virtually no directionality on 160m. I was told that performance would drop dramatically on

Re: Topband: K5P in Zone 14

2016-01-16 Thread Jim Brown
On Sat,1/16/2016 10:48 PM, Jan Erik Holm wrote: Yesterday to my big surprise I could copy K5P on 160m for about 30 minutes, seemed to peak around 1445Z. They where as strong as 559 on the peaks with deep QSB. I never ever was thinking it was possible to even hear them the way 160m is these days.