The worst part was I did not hear the South Lyon Group who was running W1AW/8 and they are only 10 ish miles away from me. Maybe tonight :-)
Don't worry about them ... they've been an alligator on 160 all week. Easily copyable through -60 dBm atmospheric noise here in Florida but not working anything except the strong stations within 500-600 miles. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 2/22/2014 8:41 AM, gold...@charter.net wrote:
I only made 35 contacts last night from my QTH. I did however get 5 new states and if those contacts use LOTW I will only need 5 more contacts for my WAS on 160m phone. My antennas are an inverted L and big loop so I dont hear real well. But thats my realilty. The worst part was I did not hear the South Lyon Group who was running W1AW/8 and they are only 10 ish miles away from me. Maybe tonight :-) I am following the converstations on the receive loops and hopefully will have time and money to invest in one for a summer project and also figure out how to get my inverted L higher before my flat section. Have fun everyone I know I do. ~73 Don KD8NNU FH#4107 -.- -.. ---.. –. –. ..- _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
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