Tom, I worked XV7BM at 1328z this morning about 10 minutes before our SR. When I worked him, he was 559, but within 10 minutes he was 579!
I'm running about 1400 watts out to a 70 ft vertical with (2) 50 ft top hat wires. I have over 100 135 ft ground radials. My RX antenna is a HI-Z 4 SQ antenna that works great! It increases the signal about one S unit, but also rejects noise off the sides and back. It has helped me greatly in hearing DX on 80m & 160m. Ray, N6VR Chino, Valley North Central AZ On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:20 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I worked XV7BM on 160 at my sunrise (about 1400z) this morning, running > about 900w, and transmitting/receiving on the same antenna, a half-sloper > off a 110' tower. He was peaking over s-9 when I worked him. > > All the same facts applied to my QSO with HS0ZKX yesterday. > > Now if only XZ1Z would appear tomorrow morning... > > Good luck! > > 73, > Jim W1YY > Kingston, WA > > -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:45 AM > To: TopBand > Subject: Topband: A newbie question > > > To all,,, I am relatively new to 160,,, I work the vhf/uhf/Eme > spectrum,so I am used to weak signal work,, I just moved to arizona,and > decided to try 160!!,. I had no problem working the HS0 yesterday morning , > but I could not hear the XV7 this morning,,I heard a lot of my "neighbors" > working him... Could anyone give me any info on his xmit power and what > type of receiving antenna those of you who worked him, were using?? > Thanks!! > Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
