Topband: Wednesday 160m CW Activity Night
Conditions still seem very up and down . . . But let's see if we can stir up some Top Band activity this Wednesday night/Thursday morning. Roger G3YRO _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: Wednesday 160m CW Activity Night
Well Top Band conditions still seem pretty good . . . So be good to see some DX activity this Wednesday night/Thursday morning. 73 Roger G3YRO _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m CW Activity Night
Hi Read the impressions: https://www.3830scores.com/showrumor.php?arg=2DalzKyaiymc0 " Not a single NA signal moved my S-meter. It felt like working EME on 144 MHz in old days. We moved our BEVs on a slightly different location(TNX S57AL, S53CC, S53BB and S55OO) but it was much noisier as before on CQ 160. TNX for QSOs." --- Nick, UY0ZG http://www.topband.in.ua Roger Kennedy писал 2023-02-21 10:52: Well conditions were pretty good over the weekend . . . So be good to see some DX activity this Wednesday night/Thursday morning. 73 Roger G3YRO _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: Wednesday 160m CW Activity Night
Well conditions were pretty good over the weekend . . . So be good to see some DX activity this Wednesday night/Thursday morning. 73 Roger G3YRO _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m CW Activity Night
I was on for EU Sunrise on Monday night/Tuesday morning, and found condx excellent. I got home from a long 12 hour road trip at 05:30 UT and found signals were great. I even worked SM4IVE who was one of my 144 MHz EME contacts back in the 1980's. It was great to work Lars on 160 meters. You would expect to hear him on 432 or 1296 with BIG signals, so a 160 meter contact was unusual! Almost everyone I worked was between S7 and S9. That includes a DL station running 40 watts and a dipole. I wish I could have stayed on longer and my Sunrise, but I was exhausted after the trip. I will be QRV this evening and hope that we get a repeat of Tuesday morning! 73 Dave K1WHS On 2/8/2023 10:49 AM, Roger Kennedy wrote: I haven't bothered posting reminders for this for a while, as 160m conditions have been so poor. But they seem to be fairly good at the moment, so maybe we shall see some stations on the band tonight. 73 Roger G3YRO _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: Wednesday 160m CW Activity Night
I haven't bothered posting reminders for this for a while, as 160m conditions have been so poor. But they seem to be fairly good at the moment, so maybe we shall see some stations on the band tonight. 73 Roger G3YRO _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m CW Activity Night
Dave, I feel your pain. I have had similar situations in Western, CT in 2011, 2012 and then again in 2014. During CQWWSSB in 2011 we got a freak snowstorm starting with temps at 34F and then falling to 19F overnight - heavy wet snow at 4" - 5" per our took out thousands of trees in full leaf and trashed hundreds of power lines and utility poles. It took many dozens of line crews from Ohio to ME to South Carolina, 2 weeks to restore all power. I had no power for 9 days. No antennas got repaired that Winter. In 2012 we had two hurricanes, one in August, (antennas were repaired) and then came Hurricane Irene the Sunday evening of CQWWSSB, with its screaming 120 mph wind gusts that destroyed most of our town communications infrastructure. Hundreds of utility poles, power lines and trees were destroyed just in my area of the the town. 171 roads in Newtown, CT were completely or partially blocked. 98% of Newtown, CT lost power. I had to chainsaw 15 trees that had fallen across my driveway literally trapping us here until they were all cut and moved. The cable/phone and internet lines were literally ripped off all the power poles the entire length of my 550' driveway. We had no power for 9 days until the final transformer was replaced on a pole above my driveway on November 7th during another snowstorm that dropped another 9" of snow. All the wire antennas were down and not repaired that Winter for critical health reasons, the passing of my mother as well as the Sandy Hook massacre on December 14th. And then in 2014, we got 61" of snow in 3 weeks with subzero temps in-between ensuring that almost nothing melted. One night in 5 hours we got 24" of snow and with 42" of snow on the ground it was impossible to get to the woods. I spent all of Martin Luther King day shoveling snow off the roofs of my house so that it would not collapse. Again, no antennas got fixed that winter. I had given up on Beverages years before due to the combination of a Deer Tick explosion and the dense forest raining branches and trees all over the beverages with every wind storm. Western CT in New England is a rough place to live. Thank goodness we don't get the insane cold of Northern ME. Some years you just have to "let it go" and wait until Spring to put your station back together. I learned not to bother to fix my wire antennas until a few days before a major DX contest. Too many times I had fixed them a week or two before only to see them get obliterated again by another storm a day or two before the next DX contest! Bob, KQ2M On 2022-12-27 16:25, David Olean wrote: I am starting to feel "shell- shocked". I had two storms come through here in rapid succession. Storm #1 produced incredibly heavy wet snow. It caused many trees to suffer with large broken limbs. The snow depth was 13.5 inches. It really stuck to the trees. All of my eight beverage antennas were damaged as they run though the woods and had all sorts of large branches fall on them, dropping the wires. Then the XYL and I both got Covid and were sick in bed for a week or so. This past Friday, a large rain/ windstorm wiped everything out. We lost power for a few days and the temps dropped to single digits for a few days. Everything froze up solid. Many of the beverage wires managed to get frozen to the ground. (Not fun) My internet connection was out for almost five days. The damage is quite bad to many of the trees and the typical scene is a 24" tree trunk (White Pine) snapped in half about 25 ft up off the ground. The top part then falls and takes out many trees around it as it comes down. I counted six big trees down across the beverages and many of the wires have snapped. I spent a day chain sawing and then followed up with another day repairing the beverage wire with home made splices. I use aluminum wire and the splices are aluminum barrels with four sets of 8-32 s.s. set screws. The high winds combined with huge amounts of water and the melting snow plus rain managed to wash out the road that goes up to my VHF hamshack. I had just paid to have the road repaired about a month ago and all the stone they put down is now gone or in the wrong place! After two days of working in the woods, I have some of the wires fixed. I figure another two days and I will have the 160 receive antennas working again. I m not sure what to do about the road. 73 Dave K1WHS On 12/27/2022 4:46 PM, Roger Kennedy wrote: Sorry to see that so many of you in North America are suffering with horrendous winter weather at the moment. For those of you who can sill get on 160m, hope to see some of you on the band this week. 73 Roger G3YRO _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m CW Activity Night
I am starting to feel "shell- shocked". I had two storms come through here in rapid succession. Storm #1 produced incredibly heavy wet snow. It caused many trees to suffer with large broken limbs. The snow depth was 13.5 inches. It really stuck to the trees. All of my eight beverage antennas were damaged as they run though the woods and had all sorts of large branches fall on them, dropping the wires. Then the XYL and I both got Covid and were sick in bed for a week or so. This past Friday, a large rain/ windstorm wiped everything out. We lost power for a few days and the temps dropped to single digits for a few days. Everything froze up solid. Many of the beverage wires managed to get frozen to the ground. (Not fun) My internet connection was out for almost five days. The damage is quite bad to many of the trees and the typical scene is a 24" tree trunk (White Pine) snapped in half about 25 ft up off the ground. The top part then falls and takes out many trees around it as it comes down. I counted six big trees down across the beverages and many of the wires have snapped. I spent a day chain sawing and then followed up with another day repairing the beverage wire with home made splices. I use aluminum wire and the splices are aluminum barrels with four sets of 8-32 s.s. set screws. The high winds combined with huge amounts of water and the melting snow plus rain managed to wash out the road that goes up to my VHF hamshack. I had just paid to have the road repaired about a month ago and all the stone they put down is now gone or in the wrong place! After two days of working in the woods, I have some of the wires fixed. I figure another two days and I will have the 160 receive antennas working again. I m not sure what to do about the road. 73 Dave K1WHS On 12/27/2022 4:46 PM, Roger Kennedy wrote: Sorry to see that so many of you in North America are suffering with horrendous winter weather at the moment. For those of you who can sill get on 160m, hope to see some of you on the band this week. 73 Roger G3YRO _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: Wednesday 160m CW Activity Night
Sorry to see that so many of you in North America are suffering with horrendous winter weather at the moment. For those of you who can sill get on 160m, hope to see some of you on the band this week. 73 Roger G3YRO _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: Wednesday 160m CW Activity Night
Just another reminder . . . Perhaps DX propagation will be better tomorrow night than in the Stew Perry at the weekend. We can only hope ! Anyway, hope to see some of you on the band. 73 Roger G3YRO _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: Wednesday 160m CW Activity Night
As promised, a reminder . . . A good chance to check things out before the Stew Perry Contest at the weekend. To clarify - this is Wednesday night / Thursday morning. (I personally won't be on till around 02.30Z, as I have a late gig in town!) 73 Roger G3YRO _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: Wednesday 160m CW Activity Night
Well as others have mentioned, DX conditions have been quite good the last few nights . . . But not many NA stations on the band to work ! So that's why I'm still pushing this idea of an Activity Night on Wednesday evenings, to try at least get everyone on one night a week ! I personally try to come on around 2330Z . . . 0100 . . . 0300 and again at our Sunrise - DX signals don't currently start to fade out with me til around 0730Z. Hope to see you on the band ! 73 Roger G3YRO _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
