Hello I was using until few days a inverted L (24m long) for 160/80. The only big DX I made were V5, A65, A45, K, FO/C, FP.
Some friends told me it was really better to have around 40m long. So, now, the lenght is around 40 meters. 8 meters vertical under a tree and horizontal for the rest of wire. About 50 radials from 5 meters to 20 meters. No Rx system, only on inverted L. This pre Stew Perry was good to test it. I don't know how was the propagation yesterday night, good or not ? I am a newbie on 160. I have been on top band during 3 hours. All stations I could hear had been contacted. But only few stations from EU. Had QSO with A65BP and the good surprise : KV4FZ at 2350Z. My first QSO with Caribean on top band. Many many tnx Herb. I stopped few minutes after. I heard some EU working US stations but I never heard USA. Only 29 QSO but happy that it seems to work better. K3 1K-FA Inverted L 40m Wintest Best 73 de F5PHW Phil (Ex FO8RZ) Web page on http://f5phw.free.fr F5PHW on FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/phil.berger.75 ----- Mail original ----- De: "Henk PA5KT" <[email protected]> À: [email protected] Envoyé: Dimanche 19 Octobre 2014 21:15:25 Objet: Topband: Stew Perry Hi, I made some hours in the Stew Perry last night. Only dx worked around 02:30 was KV4FZ and 03:00 worked KA1R who was not in contest. Both had very strong signals and not a lot of noise. USA stations I could hear for a long time but who did not hear me: NO3M, K1LT, K3UL. Signals were good till about 04:30 and then dropped and stayed low even during my SR at 06:15. Tx antenna 16m vertical top loaded with 2 sloping wires. 2 1/4wl elevated radials and some radials on the ground. Rx 50m reversible (W<->E) beverage on ground which appears to work ok. Looks like buying a new house in the countryside was a good investment. Hope to work more dx. 73 Henk PA5KT _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
