After watching and drooling over the reports of the past few days
where the mainland is working DX like 20 meters, the propagation
gods have moved to the Pacific.
Today I arose and hit the button at 1500Z and right there on the dial
was OH3XR calling CQ, 579 signal, I thought it was a pirate a
As I mentioned the other day great conditions moved to KH6,
well they continue, both sunset and sunrise. Even worked a
new one last nite, GJ4CBQ, east coasters may laugh at that
but its a tough one for here at least. So many thanks Phil for
the good ears.,
This AM sunrise was super conditions
I have been watching this thread with interest, I am preparing to put up a
receive array and it will have to be some distance from the shack.
Is there a brand of RG-6 that someone has tried that is recommended?
Or some idea of a good name to look for.
Shipping to Molokai is more than 1000ft of co
Yes received mine in the past few weeks, used OQRS,
I know there are some delays but cards seem to be coming out.
73 Merv K9FD/KH6
Hello all,
Did anybody receive printed QSL from 7O6T please? I've sent mine since the end
of the DXpedition (half a year ago).
Thank you.
73 de YO3FFF
Cristi
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Are they just coming out or have they been out for a while?
Paid via online system and have not received a QSL as yet.
73 Merv K9FD/KH6
Hello,
After one year, here it its. I receive the QSL from PT0S.
Thanks to all DXpedition members who made this possible.
Good luck to all of you.
73 de Y
Can hear them here in KH6 land, at least the 3500.9 and 3501.6.
the 3503.1 is there also but weak, strongest is 3501.6
antenna to broad to pin point any true direction, but its coming
from the "east" to north east for sure.
Merv K9FD/KH6
The signals on 3501.6 and 3503.1 are both SE of me (nor
Wonder what type of urine you use out here where there are no predators
like that the deer have ever seen.
The deer come through here by the hundreds at a time, Axis deer that have
been introduced here many years back, they provide table fare, but sure
are a nuisance, beverages have to be 10ft p
Very nice signals from S21 today on topband, peaking 579 here
an hour before sunrise, but alas they have bad receive conditions
it appears.Heard many calling from EU/Asia and they did not
answer.
Band has been extremely poor here this season "over the pole"
have tried several times with SM7
N3FJP for super simple easy 5 min learning curve for the Stew Perry, works
for me a 69 year old fart.
73 Merv K9FD/KH6
Thanks for all the recommendations for N1MM, but I am just unable to
install it on my shack's Linux computer. Under WINE, I get a database
run-time error after I do the lates
I live on a former AM BC site, and cannot see any way that you could
put up
4 elevated radials and disconnect the ground system that was in place.
The ground system here is typical installation and it is bonded with 4 inch
copper strap to everything and anything in sight. The tuning networks
Conditions have been very poor to say the least from KH6 land
especially to EU. What few contacts I have made have been
from a very skewed western direction.
Today was no different, path over the pole at sunrise was not open,
I was sitting on 1823 working on email, sunrise is 1708Z and
suddenly
t;spoon-fed" DX on packet
clusters and internet!) You were there LISTENING when he showed up! FB!
73,
Charlie, K4OTV
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Now thats a strange one Milt, I was up and ears peeled at 1330Z until
now 1545Z and never heard a peep outta him, never heard anyone
calling at all, what Freq was this happening on?
Only stations on 160 were NH0Z and V63DX, couple JAs
How in the world did we all miss him? Curious to freq you
Yes no doubt, it seems if a persons personal agenda precedes their
ability to read with any comprehension on this reflector so many times,
here we go again.
The discussion is about the placement of an additional loading coil and its
influence while the radiator is already loaded by a capacitan
Aloha Bjorn.
Heard you calling cq 1833.7 this morning starting at 1450Z. signals weak
about 449 on peaks, a lot of slow QSB.
Heard you on and off and past my sunrise 1710Z peaking about 559.
Signals not as good as previous days but quite good for low power.
Great job, hang in there, the west co
Yes he did not have the split button pushed for about 10 mins or so.
He was cqing on 22.5 and saying dn 4 but was actually listening
on 22.5 also..he found the mistake and moved to the normal
26.5 qsx dn 4.Good signal and still cqing as of 1500Z. not
many callers at all, slow deep qs
They have been on 160/80 almost every day, so far I have not heard
a peep on 160, seems they are on for their sunset and then move
to 80. Right now at 1700Z they are 579 at my sunrise peak on 3510
Think they start on 160 about 1400-1430Z
73 Merv K9FD/KH6
Has anyone heard or worked these g
Looks pretty plain, you count for nothing zero nada QRM to another USA
W/VE: Each DXCC country once per band
Non-W/VE: Each state, District of Columbia, VE province/territory once
per band
Then maybe I misread the rules at
http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/weeklycont.php#5126 .
73, Mike
Depends on the noise at your location, before I removed the 300 ft towers
here I matched one for 160 and ran low power in the Stew Perry a few years
ago, ended up number 1 world wide if memory is correct, and receive was
only the xmt antenna at that time.
If the locations noise is low you will
My current antenna is somewhat what you ask about Mike,
its 70 ft vertical with two top hat wires to resonate at 1830.
the top hat wires slope down to perhaps 20 ft high.
For 80 meters I switch in a matching network of a coil to ground
and a vacuum cap in series with the feed line. SWR tunes
eas
Lots of things to check, processor on, what mic used, need the bias
turned on for your mike,
have mic gain set for high or low in the menus, have the right amount
of ALC showing
K3 needs the ALC to be showing 5 or 7 bars, not 1 bar flickering like
some radios suggest.
Barefoot? if so your
Wow the more this thread goes the deeper the s**t gets,
the first poster has no chance,,
reminds me of a pig wrestling contest, you jump in and all you do is get is
full of mud and s**t.
Im heading down to the beach and going to holler real loud, see if any of
you guys in CA can hear my floodin
I had the opportunity to work K9DX many times when he was using this array,
he was one of the only stations who would hear me call an hour before my
sunset, and when he switched the array from EU to KH6 it was nothing but
amazing. To be honest I have never heard another ham array do as well,
B
I have the same type noise here, mine reads 3513.3 warbles, at times
sounds a little unstable,
its on the antenna for sure, I have all underground utilities no close
neighbors and nothing on in
the home. Quiet location, no smart meter on this house at least. So
far I have not been able to
Same here, seems most trips to that area only put receive antennas up
for EU or central USA, that puts me on the side of the antenna or rear..
Many times I can copy them 579 to 599 and they are impossible to work,
listening to EU or ??
I realize there are not many stations out this way, but it
Is this a slow year or is it just me.. have been listening on and off
for a month at sunrise and its very few and far between signals,
Caught VK9, E51, C21 etc, no new ones but at least some activity.
Have seen some interesting conditions a couple times, there are
some "beacons" down at 1800 a
Ever had one of those days when things dont go your way..
This AM about an hour before sunrise I am hearing VU2GBS
calling cq on top band, hot dog a new one. But I hear a couple
JA, VK, ZL also calling from time to time with no results,
the VU2 signal peaked up to 579 at 1530Z and I still coul
Olof has been very good copy here in KH6 for a couple days now,
Was fortunate to work him this morning about 30 mins before
my sunrise, his signal peaked over 579, excellent.
LOTW QSO was there by the end of the day here. thats fast.
Thanks to Olof.
Yesterday also was 3b8/DJ7RJ with 569 on pea
I see a lot of remote receiver and transmitter use, so far its not
being addressed
that I know of.
I got blasted yesterday on the DX clusters because I was spotting A45,
3B9, 3B8,
RA9 etc, LID on the cluster said I was using remote, I suggest the
operator LID
use the call book and see where
Only had a short time to listen and work a few stations, KV4FZ was
loud and clear here an hour before sunset, he was peaking 579 at
susnet, I called a few times and moved on did not have enough time
and remember in other tests it was a chore for him to hear me it
seemed.
Next morning at sunrise h
Awoke this AM at 4AM so brewed up the coffee and made a trip to
the shack, was hoping to work VK9HR, not a peep of any
signals on the "normal" band, noticed a Blurb on the scope way up the
band, thinking it was a Japanese fishing boat as usual I tuned up to
1840 and there was VK9HR calling cq
I am starting to listen on 160 at my sunrise as conditions here are
sounding
like the band is opening up. QRN levels are down the past few days and
for two mornings now I am hearing beacons that seem to be new.
There are a set of at least 6 beacons spaced about 1.5khz apart from
1809.9 up to 1
I was doing my morning routine calling CQ on 1822.5 at 1550Z just
before sunrise, heard several times someone tune up, send some VVV
etc. on my freq so I continued to call CQ. heard the tuner again,
and this time he started calling CQ just a little down freq. Was 4W6A.
He said QSX up so went u
I agree that some high angle may be the optimum at some situation, but
getting all angles from one
antenna I cant see as the answer, you are putting power into all the
different angle
and no real power into any one of them. So separate antennas would
seem to
be the answer. If your putting
One caveat with the RBN and monitoring two signals etc. Be sure that you
know the fellows you are monitoring so to speak, during contests and
DX chasing there are many using Eimac antenna tuners, so 3DB from one
station to the neighbors is not a sure sign of antenna efficiency.
Its a lot more co
Explain that to all the DX stations I call for a new one during that
contest and
refuse to work me..
Merv K9FD/KH6ex KH7C
> There is an "advertisement" on the ARRL web site
> for the 160 meter contest at:
>
> http://www.arrl.org/news/reach-for-the-top-in-the-arrl-160-meter-contest
>
> Unfort
> On 12/3/2011 7:09 PM, Hardy Landskov wrote:
>
>> he reason there are not
>> more stations outside of US participate is that this contest turns out to be
>> an ARRL 160 Sweepstakes at least this is my opinion from the Westcoast.
>>
> Yes.As a protest of scoring rules that make it an "ea
The Stew is past.. Started out to be fantastic, signals from South
America and Caribbean were really strong, KV4FZ, PJ2T,
P40, 6Y5, CE1, etc were all over S9, great conditions, and the
first morning RA4LW booming in.
But alas I was skunked, about 5 or 6 hours into the contest Sat nite
the QRN
Top band still has life left and kicking. It is sure not what it was in
the
past 3 years, but has some amazing openings if you spend the time to
wait it out.
I am usually on daily, not making much noise, just monitoring and checking
conditions, past two days the beacons from the Russian area
I know for a fact that the telco drop wire does not appeal to chewers,
I put down a BOG and in one days time it was in 4 pieces, due to
mongoose activity, yes one of the fine imported species in Hawaii,
Or it could have been rats, we have roof rats that will chew anything
in sight also.
The wire
Perhaps they are gone now, but was hearing them daily with up to 599 signals
on top band and 80 meters, worked both YC0LOW/8 and YB8Y.
Not many calling them on top band, just a few JAs that I could hear.
So the antennas were working. At least to this QTH. Louder than any other
YB that I have he
> 2. Switch to 80M DXing. After a while you can hear how strong the signals get
> once they reach a certain level switch to 160M and start listening.
>
I find here many times that 80 meter QRN is worse than 160 on the same
day, same time,
no idea why that is, but is very often true here, so
At my old QTH in ILL, I used a fed tower with 4 elevated radials, they
were about
12 foot off the ground, it worked fairly well, but I started adding
radials on the ground,
as I added radials the feed point impedance changed, I hit diminishing
returns at about
60 radials, the difference b
Wonder if theres any way to get word to them to try at my sunrise on any
band,
160, 80, 40, looks like their sunset is 15.17Z and my sunrise is
15.50Z so have
a very good shot at them, so far with daily monitoring they have not
shown up
until 1700Z time ..
Guess the low bands dont really hav
Only once in a beverage, but have seen it many times on telephone drop
wires from the pole to a home, the two copper clad steel wires
would be "evaporated" and just the rubber insulation left hanging in the
air._
_Merv K9FD/KH6
> I've never experienced this before a year or so ago, when I had a
No card as yet but have LOTW from him for top band.
73 Merv K9FD/KH6
Has anyone been able to get a card out of UA4CC for the T8CC operation last
winter?
I have tried direct mailing and followup email with no luck.
Steve, KK7UV
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I do not know what rigs are used on the fishing boats, but I can sure
give you
daily logs showing both american and asian fishing boats carrying on SSB
qso's on the ham bands. Mostly on 80 and 160 meters.
It is normal operation when the fishing season is open they come on the 80
meter CW end of
They do not change freq out here in KH6, if they did how in the world
would the boat know where to look for the beacon and DF it to find the
net??
They run on a cycle, usually giving the ID and a carrier about 3 times, and
then go QRT for some time, coming on again later to repeat the cycle.
Good news Tree,
I heard you calling cq this morning just after 1500Z, and VE7CA was
also down
a couple. I had just gotten up (5AM here) and the amp was not warmed up.
I copied SV3RF the other evening after my sunset, so the band has some life
to it. I have not been on very much as yet due
I uploaded logs several days ago and they have not been processed as yet,
Saw someplace that processing was taking a week or more.
Seems punching them in by hand would be as efficient as the ARRL computer
is these days.
Major problems, maybe they went back to DOS and a 8088.
Merv K9FD/KH6
Steve,
Also sunrise path is overlooked, W6 - W7 would benefit from operation
at 1400Z.Have worked 9K2 at those times, not on the other path
at 0400Z.
Mis tres Centavos 73 Merv K9FD/KH6
After ALL this work, SOMEONE needs to spend the better part of a lunar
cycle on site
to really do justice to
Lee is correct, I have had numerous times signals every 10KHZ across 160
all the way to 80 meters, the loudest being on 1810KHZ at times.
The culprit turned out to be a station on 1540KHZ. the second harmonic
3080
was mixing with a station on 1270khz, ended up 3080-1270 = 1810KHZ.
strange
Here in salt air regular solder turns to white powder pretty fast,
I have been also using lead free solder, I got a roll of plumbers
solder and a jar of resin flux. works very well on #10 radials and
4 inch wide copper strap etc. Have left several joints exposed
and there is no corrosion after
I see and hear all the complaints about the EP6 operation,
I heard at one point they had severe noise issues, I do not
know if that has been solved or not.
Out here the signals are far better than what I expected. I
worked them on 40 meters the first day, signals peaked
599 at sunrise.
80 meter
This is easily found out without the NSA, just look at who paid for
the minutes
used at a remote station and it would show who used it and when,
Can guarantee that wont be forth coming.
Reminds me of the ole joke:
The first chicken that cackles, laid the egg.
73 Merv K9FD/KH6,
I mentioned las
GM OM/YL,
Breaking News:
ARRL Board Okays Changes to DXCC Program
ARRL VOTES ON DXCC and REMOTE RULES
We would like to applaud the ARRL for "seeing the big picture" and
understanding how important the role of remote technology will play in
the future of our hobby. The recommended DXAC 200km li
TI9 had a super signal on 160 last nite, before my sunset he was 579
and peaked over
599 at sunset, of course EU only, and he was working them at a good
clip. Good to see
conditions were good.
After sunset his signals started dropping, he went to US about 0500? I
made it through the
pile
It absolutely will, unless the remote guys can pay enough funds to the
party in charge to get an exemption, they will be stifled and speeds
of the net will decline, have to make it fair ya see.
Maybe NET Neutrality will take care of this for us. :-(
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From: Topband
Shoot I was wondering when there was going to be a CW operation from P5
since Rodman goes over all the time, thinking top band guys may have an
edge :o)
Merv K9FD/KH6
I forgot to add that with a name like Rodman all you need are some
tattoos and a few gold rings through your lips and you can
Hawaii is on in every contest, usually several stations at least, with
good
signals.
I do not work SSB so will not be on for this one, but bet that KH6LC, or
a couple of the other guys will be on. I think there was a bulletin that
a couple guest ops would be active from KH7M?
KH6 is well rep
Yes but a KW into the loop for 1 minute and you can have a ready
made bait shop under it, earth worms will be coming out and you
can harvest all the fish bait you need and sell it.
Just dont transmit to long it will kill the worms..
Merv K9FD/KH6
Bingo!
73, Mike
www.w0btu.com/160_meters.html
I have been in Jakarta and also a number of places in China trying to
operate
from a city environment, you cannot believe the noise, S9 if your
lucky, and its
360 degs, impossible to null,
Operating from BY1QH building top, the best was a dipole stretched
between two buildings roofs.
At times
Runnning WSPR on 474.2 KHZ and :
VK3ELV 2015-09-10 10:52Z 475.726 QF33BQ 5 watts -29
Not quite as far as yours, but he was copied also up into north west
USA last nite,
Antenna efficiency on 475 a lot less than a quarter wave antenna on 160.
Path is open to VK this time of the ye
I have this same problem all the time, I tried to put a BOG out, made
of teflon wire,
thinking they would not eat teflon, it lasted a few days and was chewed
In pieces, Coax the same,
Latest I found is my phyllistran guy wires are all chewed near the bottom,
herds of deer are the problem with
Evolution?? Heck its more a return to our roots, seems to me we had
the band
long ago and it was taken from us, new low band? wonder what the guys
using
136 KC think of that.Evolution may be in the new modes being used
and new
gear, but the band is a "welcome back" to what we lost year
20 mins work with a 5.00 fibre glass rod spun in a lathe,
sort of grossly overpriced exaggeration of a Rohn insulator.
I believe there is a slight misrepresentation here. I've never seen
these in any Rohn catalog. Rather than
calling them Rohn 25 tower insulators, I think they are better
descri
Agree with Jim, Eric hears me when most others have their "ears" super
glued
to EU and never change directions.
The best station I have ever worked was K9DX when he had up his arrays
and remote
set ups, he would hear me before my sunset and come back with the
transmit array
my direction wi
No he just ducked
"...some folks cried fowl"
So, did he chicken out ?
73 - Mort, G2JL
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NEWS UPDATE @ 21:20Z - Nigel Jolly, Braveheart owner, declared an
emergency and ordered the VP8STI team to cease all operations and return
to the ship. A large ice flow that had broken away due to last night’s
storm starts to block the entrance to the Bay where they were camped.
There was st
Great stuff, pays also if you are a dxer to read old QST articles, one
of these
is "station design for DX" tells about what a DB can do, as I
remember one
quote from the article " 1db opens a whole new layer of weak DX to work"
Its true and its worth the work if your even half serious abou
That spot was bogus, they were on 18.5 at the time,
I hung in there again today for 3 hours, same as everyday so far nada,
them at my sunrise 1629Z out of the noise they arose, had about
2 or 3 mins of qsb copy. thanks to super ears of UT6UD I am in the log.
I had hopes as my 630 meter 1 watt
It works well, I use the transformer set up made by C&S engineering,
now with DXE I think, and WD1 wire.
I used to use electric fence galvanized steel wire for beverages and two
wire beverages back in ILL
and it worked well.
Merv K9FD/KH6
Hi Herb and all,
When I was in the Army, 1958 to 19
I had soldering problems here in the salt air until I switched to
no lead plumbers solder and pure resin flux. have not had a problem
since, I have radials and connections over 7 years old that
are in great shape, exposed to the elements.
YMMV
73 Merv K9FD/KH6
I'd like to get the latest thi
Aloha, I am finally back in Hawaii after almost a year being gone
from the QTH and QRT.
For those who did not know, my XYL of 46 years was receiving
cancer treatment at MD Anderson in TX, and passed away Nov
23rd.
As soon as my papers and QSLs etc arrive in the mail that I
forwarded to here,
Have been absent again from the band again, but arrived
back home last Saturday, the band is still open to some areas
of the globe.
I got up yesterday early and as the receiver came on there was
VU4 saying he was going QRT and back at 1900. Well thats
way to late for here. He had a good workable
Length, power, all means little, question is how clean and how
often do you inspect the fence,
the popping you hear is the arc caused by poor insulators arcing, or weeds
touching the fence. most problems come from some one with no
clue as to HV installing the fence, poor plastic insulators, p
I agree seat time is the only sure way. I have tried a number of
different prop programs
and have not been satisfied so to speak.
What I use now most of the time does not specifically show grey line,
but does do long
and short path, and you can "estimate" grey line by the sunrise /
sunset ti
Very interesting write up Jeff, great job, thanks.
I just worked JT5DX on 20 meters, 599 signal working a EU pile up.
Have worked them on 160 and 80 many times, always wondered what
the set up was there.
73 Merv K9FD/KH6
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Price Smith, W0RI,
Top band buddy of mine for many years.
Best friend..
Went with me to BY1QH back in the 90s to put BY on 160M.
Going to miss him greatly.
73 Merv K9FD/KH6
[was: Re: Topband: - Belden Snap n Seal]
What was his callsign? I hope it's not the fellow I'm thinking of.
73, Mike
ww
Fish net beacons out here in the Pacific,
They are on every day, sometimes every even KC across the whole
band. many are over S9 depending on location
Have heard them as far as from EU and USSR lakes and oceans.
nothing new, been there forever.
\Merv K9FD/KH6
From time to time I'm hearing som
Correct Lee, if some have not heard them they need to check the receive
antennas and
plan for work in the spring.
They were especially loud out here in KH6 back in 2008 etc when
conditions over the pole
were excellent, they boomed in before and at sunrise peaks.
Occasionally via LP at sunset
Not sure how long they were on, but I remember it was the years of
decent propagation
My experience hearing them was at the sunrise and sunset time to KH6.
I could hear many OH
stations and at no time was OH8X signal better than the other OH stations,
many OH were stronger. If I remember by
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