Hi Merv and all, According to their WEB site the noise problems have now been taken care of. They had a very good run both on 80 and 160 last night. In Europe we do have problems with deliberate QRM on 80 and 40, much less on 160. I must say the Ops are doing a very good job. Most EU stations obey directions from EP6, e.g qrx now for JA as an example. 73 Len/SM7BIC
-----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: Topband [mailto:[email protected]] För Merv Schweigert Skickat: den 21 januari 2015 19:10 Till: [email protected] Ämne: Topband: EP6 from the KH6 side 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 meters the same, the "hour before" sunrise peak is 579 to 599 and again at sunrise there is a peak of 599, I hear them with good signals every day on 80. So far not a peep on 160, and the high bands they are very weak, but thats expected when its dark there and daylight here. What surprised me as I went to LOTW today to load logs, there are my 40 and 80 qsos already in LOTW. Thanks to them for fast service and not holding LOTW QSOs hostage waiting for donations. A tactic used by many operations these days. All I can say is if you have never been on the other end so to speak its very easy to criticize an operation, conditions out of their control can make things difficult if not impossible. Last I checked EP was not a place I would be "comfortable" operating from, so I give the guys a thumbs up just for going there. If you think this operation is poor, just think of the upcoming VP8G trip where the guy is not used to pile ups of any type, and is going to "search and pounce" if you need that for a new one your going to be pulling more than hair out when that comes on. 73 Merv K9FD/KH6 _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
