I am fairly new to 160 meters, but became almost immediately aware of
the presence of N5IA there. His signal was always outstanding and at
the top from his area of the country. This is a very sad time for his
family and all of us who knew him or heard his FB signals on 160. I
know I will
Hello Tree
I tried calling you early on, with no luck in the ARRL 160 test.
Possibly your noise was one reason you could not pick me out. Later on,
you called me while I was CQing, so all was good. I have a W8JI DXE
phasing box here, (NCC-1) and I use it to help cancel out some awful
Trevor,.
I was calling and calling many EU stations and they would uniformly come
back calling CQ right in my face both evenings. I was running 1500 watts
into a vertical with 125 radials. I seemed to hear just fine, but no one
across the pond could hear me. I quit in disgust on Friday
I used a return loss bridge and measured a TEE fitting with a good 50
ohm load on one port the length of cable on the other side. The antenna
analyzer will read a perfect 50 ohm match when the cable is 1/2
wavelength long. If the cable is an open quarter wave, your analyzer
will show high VSWR
Hi Larry
I would vote for the 600 ft beverage and put it about 6 ft above the
ground. I added ferrite chokes to all my feedlines to remove any common
mode noise. I had chokes at the transformer end with its own ground rod
about 20 ft from the transformer and its ground rod. I had a second
Hello Ashraf,
I am afraid that NA activity has gone down to almost no activity at all!
It is also true that signals have been weak when there at all. Don't
touch your beverage. It is working fine! Raising wire from 1 to 2
meters will not change much. All my beverages are at 2 meters.
Hello Terry
I would suspect the coax could be bad. Is it new or has it been laying
around awhile.? I have had water get into flooded RG-6 coax, and with
all the metals associated with the shielding, the corrosion has produced
a battery effect and there is DC voltage there as read on a high
Hi Roger
I had a remarkable swing of QSB that took you from really loud to really
weak. I had been hoping that we would have a great evening (finally) but
when I first heard you calling, I said to myself, "This isn't good." A
few seconds later you were blasting in, so it made evaluating the
Luke,
I was really happy with this past evening/morning's events. I was
listening around 1825.5 and immediately heard you calling CQ when you
first started up. When W6IZT did not answer you, I figured I would give
you a call from here in Maine. I had been previously calling CQ up the
band
I made many changes to some of my noisy beverages and have dropped the
noise level by a large amount. I saw an improvement last night and this
morning of around 27 dB from where I started, which is huge in my book!
The two previously unusable beverages are now effective. Today I ran
some
I have some more data points in my search to eliminate noise in several
of my beverage wires. First, I disconnected both the west and the
southwest beverage wires from my matching transformer box out at the end
of the rx feedlines. I left the coax still connected to the
transformer. I saw
I have been putzing around trying to improve my 160 meter setup, and
have run into a real problem. Most of the USA is covered by two
directions from here in Maine. SW and W. My problem is that I have an
excessively high noise level on both of the beverages that run in these
directions. In
I thought that conditions on Wednesday evening were pretty darn good at
times, but some strange things were going on. Roger G3YRO, was good
copy running between S7 and S9, which is a great signal. I think the K3
was showing S3 with background noise. I noted that the RBN was
providing some
I have been playing around with FT8 on 160M and am a bit puzzled. I have
made plenty of contacts, but with many stations, it seems to require an
inordinate amount of power to get their attention, or they do not
respond at all. I also have noted that I can hear in a 2.8 kHz passband,
signals
oise level and are running non-directional
antennas (such as verticals with no radials or low dipoles).
73, Mike
www.w0btu.com <http://www.w0btu.com>
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018, 10:36 AM David Olean <k1...@metrocast.net
<mailto:k1...@metrocast.net>> wrote:
I have been playing around w
TJ2TT; He was pretty
much QSA0 for me. Local QRN/QRM has made 160 very tough for me; I could barely
hear Roger and he is usually fairly easy copy.
73 de Lee KX4TT
Tampa, FL
-Original Message-
From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of David Olean
Sent: Thursday
I am hearing it here in Maine and it is very loud, peaking at -75 dBm on
my East and NE beverages, and -65 dBm on my vertical. It seems to be
East or NE from me. I had just installed some coax 1:1 baluns on some
beveerages where they come into the house, and wondered if I had
aggravated
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
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
I would echo Tim's remarks. I bought a bunch of Russian caps on EPAY for
a 160 meter amplifier and they overheated and changed value. One blew
up. They were horrible as a plate coupling cap. The seller advised me
that they were only good for uncritical bypassing chores. Now I have a
pile of
I am not an expert on DX peditions, coming late to HF and 160 meters in
my life, but I could not get over the operator at VP6D this morning on
1.826. Whoever it was, he was flying and getting the call correct the
first time every time. I was amazed at how well they were doing racking
up the
I missed you last night, Roger
I did try listening on the band 2 hours before my sunset and was
surprised to hear a DL1 station at S7 or S8. It was an amazing signal at
19:42 UT. I just happened to be in the 160 shack working on some
shelves for a test equipment bench. At my sunset, I
Hi Steve
I missed my sunset as I had a doctor's appt. I had a bad case of Lyme
Disease in 2017, and am still taking meds. The doctor was thrilled with
my recent bloodwork and figures that I have an almost clean slate. I am
feeling great for the first time since 2016! The bad news was the
Hello Guy,
a very interesting evaluation of the 1000MP. Your diagnosis coincides
with my observations with the K3. I did not own an FT-1000MP, but I was
using my K3 for listening on the very crowded 160 meter band in the CQ
160 Contest a few years ago and noted the same thing. I was playing
Hello Mark,
Glad you caught it! That is a wonderful day for the northeast! I was up
at 1115UT this AM, as the dog wanted to go out, and I pondered whether
to trudge out to my barn and get on 160. I had been up until 1 AM re
working an old 75A4 and a PTO and was exhausted. I decided to go
Hello Wes,
I tried 160 back in the early 70's when my brother was active from
CO and we skedded on weekends. I used a long wire about 650 ft long for
both TX and RX. Working Europe was special with that setup. I had a
75A4 RX and a t-368 RF deck with 1000 volts on the 4-400 to net me 80
I would echo the comments about running an RG-6 feedline across a radial
field. I picked up huge amounts of common mode noise that got into
everything. (even other beverage wires!) I had to move the feedline to
cure it. Ferrites were not effective by simply decoupling each end of
the
I worked a UA station in Vladivostok on 160 meters and it was two hours
after his sunrise. This was in winter, so his Sun never got up very
high. At the time I did not pay attention to the contact as I was
rather clueless about 160 prop. Later on, I started wondering about it.
Was it real?
I am a bit puzzled by XR0ZRC. I thought they were going to have a major
effort on 80 and 160, but so far I have heard from little to none from
them on 160. (I am not on 80 M) Last night, 26th UTC, I did hear them
but their signal was quite weak and the heavy QRN was making copy almost
favoring the south to SSW from
your location.
Herb, KV4FZ
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 11:00 AM David Olean wrote:
I am a bit puzzled by XR0ZRC. I thought they were going to have a major
effort on 80 and 160, but so far I have heard from little to none from
them on 160. (I am not on 80 M) Last night
Hello Tree
Very fine writeup of the evening. I heard 7P8LB all night in varying
stages of copyability. At no time did I hear any evidence that I was
being heard. I suspect that the spotlight effect did not favor the
northeast and eastern Canada. Most times, 7P peaked at about S-3 with
an
Hello Rune,
There were piles and piles of W stations calling for about 1 1/2 hours
before your sunrise here on the east coast USA last night. I was calling
too and was amazed that you could not hear us. You were a good S-5 on
peaks and very easy copy. At one time you sent K1?? that was as
Phil was great copy here and I heard the K1CP QSO very well around 2150
UT with signals peaking loud at 559 or maybe even better on peaks. N1UR
was also calling but an EA1 station was calling VK6GX incessantly and
covered up VK6GX. Then we had a "tuner" from Europe somewhere who put a
carrier
Are you sure that you are hearing power line noise from the antenna, or
possibly you are hearing a common mode signal that has bullied its way
into your antenna system by getting on the outside of your feedline. Is
your feed line decoupled at each end with ferrite coax chokes? The
choke must
There is something magic that happens on any of the ham bands at any
given time. Hearing weak signals that should not be there is what gets
my heart pumping. Hearing watery signals on 160 meters from the
opposite end of the world is about as exciting as it gets. Thank you to
all the members
Hello Juan
Please look for me on 160 meter CW. I am glad you are going to be
QRV on 160. What is ur antenna? I made a note to look for you on 16
Feb. I will be on 160 meters during the ARRL contest as 1.8 MHz is my
only band.
Welcome!
Dave K1WHS
On 2/14/2019 10:55 PM, TG9AJR Juan
I tried a phased beverage array. I assume that it is working, but have
nothing to compare it to directly. I live in hilly terrain. In fact, the
phased beverage is on the side of "my" hill. The two wires are spaced
about 360 to 380 ft apart and both are around 1100 ft long. Both are
aimed at
Hello Nick,
I was not operating last night. I have other activities besides ham
radio and 160M. It was guitar playing last night, and soon it will be
fly fishing for trout up at my camp away from the radio. Winter has been
long this year and the snow and ice are still a problem. All of my
I would echo ur comments, Bob. I had to scrape the XYL's car windows
early this morning, as we have had two days of snow and ice. So after
finishing the ice removal, I went and checked 160 M before sunrise. The
band was a tad noisy and I started CQing on 1822 and went on for awhile
with no
Funny, but I was QRV on 160 and found conditions rather poor here in
Maine. Very few signals heard and what I did hear seemed a bit on the
weak side. (SM4CAN and DL8DAS among others.) I heard Joel W5ZN work
Europe and I swear he was hearing better than I was. His 579 was a
stretch here with
I heard G4EIM/QRP calling AA1K and the signal was very Q5 and pretty
impressive at about 22:00 UT. I tried calling a bunch of CQs up 2 khz,
but had no takers. I'll be on tonight a bit more.
73
Dave K1WHS
On 12/11/2019 10:48 PM, Roger Kennedy wrote:
Not sure what conditions are like, but I
on the other bands but not
optimally.
W0MU
On 10/14/2019 8:34 AM, David Olean wrote:
I am pondering an eight circle array. At present my only ham band
that I am QRV on is 160 meters. A few years ago I had 28 thru 24 GHz
all percolating, but the maintenance was killing me. i was a slave
I had a bad time with the Pre Stew. My station was all ripped apart and
the rig stored in boxes! It took me until about 0200 UT to get things
working and my receive seemed poor. I ran QRP just to see if I could be
heard. (Not too many heard me) I did not work Europe or the West Coast.
I could
Hi Mike
I would think that you would waste ur time unless the box was rather
airtight. (As in hermetically sealed) If moisture can get in, it will
and negate any desiccant in rapid order. Just my opinion.
Dave
On 10/29/2019 7:28 PM, Mike & Becca Krzystyniak wrote:
I went to put my
Hi Top Banders
I was dabbling in the CQ WW contest last night (Nov 24 UT) and noted a
few things that seemed quite different to me here in NE USA. The normal
situation at my sunset occurred. I could hear many many EU stations but
almost none of them could hear me. I am used to that. I quit
OK I guess the problem is QRM levels in EU. The CQ WW weekend is a big
difference from a typical Wednesday or Thursday evening. I was just
getting paranoid when many stations in a row could not copy me while I
was hearing them with great signals and 559 to 589. I am thinking that
maybe my
Joel,
Have another Margarita. Things will improve greatly.
Jacques
On 10/13/2019 6:15 PM, w...@w5zn.org wrote:
OK I'm confused..was it remotes or FT8 that killed amateur radio??
Or maybe the 50 other chicken little proclamations that did?
I need professional help to sort this all out
I think I did. I could hear voices and a broad peak of crud around 1820
that was several kHz wide. I did not try to identify it. I just grumbled
and went away and did something else. I heard it after sunset last
night, the 18th. Normally, if I hear any BCB crud it will be much later
when
Hi Gary,
I was out of the house early in the evening on Sunday, but started
listening a little before 10 PM local time. VP8 was very weak and
mostly in the noise. They would peak up and be readable for short
periods of 15 seconds or so. Over the next half hour the signal started
building
Hi Clive,
i have used chunks of LDF cable for phasing lines and my impression is
that on VHF, you could trim them by the book and be well close enough.
My impression is that they are very consistent from piece to piece.
That being said, I always tested my lengths after cutting a bit long and
Roger,
Sorry I missed you. I think I was QRV when you were not. After some
quality time with the XYL, I got on about 0200 UT and went until sunrise
in Europe. Signals were certainly good, and I worked a few all time new
stations as well, so that was nice.
I listened for VP8PJ for quite
I think a lot depends on where you were located. I am in southern Maine
about 30 miles from salt water. I did a fair amount of listening for DX
stations. I did not call CQ except for two brief periods late at night.
My impression was that signals were not as good as many recent nights
that I
This is one reason that I am crying over the recent closing of ESS
Surplus in Manchester, NH. They had surplus wire at $3 per pound, and
they would take into account the weight of the spool, so the real price
was more like $2.50 per pound. If I saw teflon wire, I would buy it.
They would get
Hello Topband propagation experts,
I have been messing around with listening to low frequency navigation
beacons and wondering how reception on 200 kHz relates to 160 meters.
Not sure there is a correlation. I have been listening on my 1942
Bendix aircraft radio, an MN-26C, which covers 150
Hello Bob,
I have no experience from the last solar minimum, but I heard plenty of
stories! I was really looking forward to this minimum to see the
improvements in 160 propagation. I was hoping to knock off some
countries in deep Asia. (Yeah, right!) So far I am not impressed. That
being
Hello Roger & topbanders,
I took a nap in the early evening, then was out on 160 a bit after 0300
UT. Activity was steady and the QRN level was pretty low. The QSB was in
evidence, as usual, but I thought condx were pretty nice. I worked 56
stations in between making a sliding shelf for my
Hello Carl
All very interesting! I still see a huge increase in distances as
nightfall moves in, but all of the extremely distant stations are picked
up at the upper end of the NDB allocation close to 400 kHz. During the
day a good haul is Schenectady, NY to the west. For 25 watts that is
Years ago, I think the correction was more like 17 degrees in New
England. I did some work on the geomagnetic field some years ago, and
remembered getting magnetic variations for London, England over the last
few centuries. The pole really does move.
YEAR DECL.
1600 8E
1650 1E
1700 7W
Fred
I was not able to be on much Friday evening because of other pressing
priorities, but I did note that signals seemed great from my location in
southern Maine. Signals from Europe were way up and about as good as you
might typically see for a good night. I tuned around for about 1/2 hour
I think they might mean 1000, as in resistor or cap values now... 1R5.
4R7. Just a guess.
On 2/18/2020 2:43 PM, Wes wrote:
I want to know what a power level of "ARK" is. Copied this from two
different stations.
Wes N7WS
On 2/18/2020 7:09 AM, Sam Josuweit wrote:
I totally agree. With some
I was always intrigued by the success of our "Down Under" friends in
VK6. They tried vertical polarization and it was horrible. They had much
better luck with horizontal wires. I think this had much to do with the
gyro frequency. It depends on where you are in the world. I am about
30 miles
I seem to have missed you last night, Roger. I was QRV, but took time
out to work on an old boat anchor receiver. It has a very obtuse problem
and it took awhile to figure out. I was on early, around UT and
then later on the two hours before your sun rise. All signals were down
from what
Hello Paul,
I am dealing with the same overheating problem. I need a 475 pf
capacitor to shunt feed my 160 tower. I just happened to have a 500 pf
15 KV doorknob almost the size of my fist. It did work for awhile,
(several years) but now seems to heat up and the VSWR climbs to 2:1.
The unit
Hello Roger,
You had a great signal last night. At one point you called CQ and I
answered with 5 watts, but you did not hear me. I did work I think two
stations while running 5 watts here. One was HA0NAR. This morning was a
big ZERO. I was up at 1000 UT and called CQ but had no QSOs and heard
I was on around 0300 UT. I found condx to be pretty good. There was
significant lightning QRN which made copy difficult on weak stations. I
lost a DL2 or DK2 station for that reason. I never did get the full
call before he went away. I worked DL8LAS with my TX turned down to 5
watts QRP. He
and their
frequency, etc.). This station is 413 miles from my location.
73,
Don (wd8dsb)
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 10:44 PM David Olean <mailto:k1...@metrocast.net>> wrote:
That is good. I will see what happens when I call them. I suspect
they will do nothing as there is
Good question Roy
I was hearing the St Catherine station very loud on 1830, but with
intermittent periods where it would dropout. This was at a time with
high winds in the NE. I suspected that it might be a problem at my
shack, so I tried to find CKTB and it is on the same frequency as a
2020 at 6:43 PM David Olean mailto:k1...@metrocast.net>> wrote:
I turned on my 160 meter radio around 0100 UT on the 21st, and
was
greeted by a huge level of noise on 1830. It wasn't too long
before I
realized that I was listening to an AM BC
Hello Andy,
I was on for a very short time. I worked a few EU stations with
incredible signals, 599 with preamp off, on my K3 S-meter. Then the
noise built up and static crashes became long and loud. The 6Y5 called
me forever and I could not get his call even though I could tell he was
loud.
I turned on my 160 meter radio around 0100 UT on the 21st, and was
greeted by a huge level of noise on 1830. It wasn't too long before I
realized that I was listening to an AM BC station. Audio was distorted,
but I could copy the ads and they all referred to Buffalo and St.
Catherines, Canada.
Frank,
That is one of the best e mails about beverages I have seen!! Thanks. I
have been toying with making a long Europe beverage along my rocky
ridgeline. It is solid rock with no way to apply a conventional ground.
My towers up there have no grounding at the base but utilize multiple #6
Wow! All this juicy DX makes me want to steal the exciter out of my
remote VHF shack and bring it back to the house so I can get in on some
160 meter fun! I have rigs set up on 6, 2, and 222 MHz. The 160 rig
ended up on 2 meters for the summer. I miss the DX on 160!
I have been out in the
Hello Andy
I will try to get on in the morning. I have been very busy repairing my
VHF ham shack and have little time for anything else. I have done
almost no trout fishing this summer, but spend my time replacing rotten
wood in walls and floors! Two days ago, I drove back up the hill and
Hello Merv
I received a card here for a 160 QSO from 5I5TT. Not sure when it
arrived, but it must have been in the last 2 weeks or so. I may have
sent them a contribution to provoke an early card? My QSL records are
non existent. I don't chase awards.
73
Dave K1WHS
On 8/4/2020 1:31 PM,
I missed you, Roger, I tried to get on Saturday and everything was
working great, but a bad storm was coming through with heavy wet snow.
There was all sorts of static and my TX antenna VSWR was going up fast.
The amplifier was not happy. I quit for dinner and then lost AC power.
It was off
I saw the same thing all the time on 144 MHz using my horizontal yagis,
while trying to work vertically polarized stations. (usually mobiles
with vertical whips.) My yagis would always peak up the vertically
polarized stations well off the correct heading. The effect was more
noticeable when
I was QRV one morning when W1FV was working JAs on a skewed path. At
that time, he mentioned he was hearing them skewed to the west. When he
was seeing a skewed path, I was seeing a direct path here about 125
miles NE from his QTH. I have long beverages aimed at 260, 290 and 330
degrees. I
Very sad to hear of Fausto's passing. I worked I4EAT on the VHF bands,
My first QSO with him was in early 1979 on 144 MHz moonbounce. We had
many QSOs on 144 and also 50 MHz E Skip. I treasure those early 144
MHz EME QSOs. Fausto will be dearly missed but not forgotten.
Dave K1WHS
I am not a certificate hunter, but I was curious to see how many CQ
zones I had worked on 160 meters. Getting all 40 zones on 160 is a
challenge. My list includes 38 of the 40 CQ zones, and only zones 23
and 24 are still unworked.. My question is how to nab these last two?
Part of my
Gee, all I wanted was a few pointers in hopes of knocking off a couple
of CQ zones! I also discovered that many of my e mail replies went
into a junque mail folder for some unknown reason. Thanks to all who
responded. You gave me a lot of good information that I can pursue.
Along those
Hello Roger
The CQ 160 SSB Contest was difficult as I was not very interested in
working USA stations just east of the Mississippi River. DX stations
were all under a few layers of US stations calling CQ, and they did not
appreciate other calls for stations on THEIR frequency. I did a bit of
I managed to get on 160 CW starting at 05:30 UT and figured I might
catch a few early risers on the "Continent". I was quite surprised at
the level of activity. I did not hear many stateside callers, but I was
busy for a few hours up until just about Sunrise in Europe. No exotic DX
worked,
.
On 12/30/2021 4:30 PM, Cecil acuff wrote:
I listened around at 00:00 UT up around 1830 and the static crashes from the
storms in the upper Midwest was covering anything that might have been on the
band. S9+10 on my RX loop.
Cecil
K5DL
Sent from my iPad
On Dec 30, 2021, at 3:16 PM, David Olean
Hello Andy,
I am sorry that I missed you, but I was busy with a 5 watt QRP 160 meter
operating event last night. I was way down on about 1.810 looking for
weak 5 watt signals. I called "CQ FOX"and was answered by John G3PQA! I
had to look at my RF output settings again to make sure I was
Hello Andy,
I am sorry that I missed you, but I was busy with a 5 watt QRP 160 meter
operating event last night. I was way down on about 1.810 looking for
weak 5 watt signals. I called "CQ FOX"and was answered by John G3PQA! I
had to look at my RF output settings again to make sure I was
It looks like the Summer Stew scores duplicated. (?) OOPS!
Dave K1WHS
On 10/29/2021 11:37 AM, Tree wrote:
Sorry for the delay with this - but the preliminary scores for the recent
Stew Perry are now posted.
www.kkn.net/stew
73 Tree N6TR
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Searchable Archives:
Hello Dan,
I love reading these stories. I guess I like it when man overcomes
adversity! It is amazing the mistakes that are made when you are also
tired and "rotten, reeling, and rolling in the gutter" (To paraphrase
Steve Allen) The good news is that you finally got it working.
I spent a
Hello Nick,
You were my contact #2 on 160. Vy FB signals! I had much trouble being
heard in EU both nights. I called many weak and strong stations and got
no replies. After awhile I quit. It was like my TX antenna fell down!
73
Dave K1WHS
On 11/30/2021 11:05 AM, uy0zg wrote:
Hi
It
Hello Andy,
It looks like some form of man made QRM, and not power line noise. I am
very familiar with powerline noise, but our noise is at 120 Hz and yours
will be at 100 Hz, 60 vs 50 Hz) so it should sound a lower pitch than
what I am used to, but the waterfall display shows those evenly
to seek my 10th band DXCC?
Wes N7WS
On 3/12/2022 8:02 AM, David Olean wrote:
I have to reluctantly miss the Spring Stew. All of my gear is
operational, but but I have huge amounts of RFI from grow lights. One
source is 0.75 miles South of me, while source #2 is 1.08 miles NE of
me and in line
I have to reluctantly miss the Spring Stew. All of my gear is
operational, but but I have huge amounts of RFI from grow lights. One
source is 0.75 miles South of me, while source #2 is 1.08 miles NE of me
and in line with Europe. My noise floor has increased by 22-35 dB
depending on how may
Wow! That is quite an impressive contact and you managed to copy it all
in some audio files. How often does that happen? Those audio files are
great!
Congratulations, Steve. I am always amazed at how well you do in the
over-the -pole mode. I just do not seem to be able to do that from my
I was happy to see this video. I have put on hundreds of these
connectors, but was unsure of the proper method. I used the brute force
method and usually found myself pushing the connector against a tree and
ramming the cable in as hard as I could. And, yes, all my antenna work
is done in
Hello Roger
Well, Monday night had very good conditions. There were hardly any
stations on, but those that were sounded great. I worked a DL station
who was QRP, and he was peaking at 559. Then ON4WW called me and said he
was running 1 watt. He was 559 also! He was over S9 when he ran his
Hello Kenny
I have been playing around with antennas and feedlines over many years
and have found that your ears cannot immediately tell the difference
between a 1 dB change due to fading, atmospheric noise variations, QRN
etc. I have had scalar and vector analyzers over that time to
I am hearing three different stations here in Maine on 1610 KHz during
the day. One is the Maine turnpike public service station, but another
seems to be a Spanish speaking station out to the West. The 3rd 1610
station is SW and might be a NJ county emergency station. I have heard
it in the
I had a similar situation on VHF. I operate on 222 MHz among other nose
bleed bands, and was greeted by a very large chunk of RFI in the SSB/CW
portion of 220. Others in northern New England were hearing it too. It
was loudest at my QTH. I identified some of the programming as that of
Channel
I listened this evening at 2345 UT Jan 4, and hear the best strength
with a southwest beverage. I live in Southern Maine. Signal was about S9
and sounded distorted with possibly two station audio streams. I hope
this helps. My beverages were really messed up (destroyed is more like
it) from
All the flare action normally happens on the downslope of the cycle.
Who knows what will happen then!!
Roger, I am still trying to fix my 160 rx antennas
73
Dave K1WHS
On 1/8/2023 2:41 PM, STEVE MCDONALD wrote:
>(in fact I don't even recall the Cycle affecting Top Band very much,
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
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