Felipe, tks nice story. Only got you on 80... Hope better luck next time! 73 Len SM7BIC
-----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: Topband [mailto:[email protected]] För Kees Nijdam Skickat: den 16 februari 2015 16:02 Till: PY1NB - Felipe Ceglia; Dick Grolleman Kopia: TopBand Ämne: Re: Topband: Fwd: PQ0T active in 160 Hi Felipe, Nice story! I was one of the lucky ones (with PA3FQA) and I even worked you twice, due to the up1, up2 etc confusion. tnx, Kees, PE5T -------------------------------------------------- From: "PY1NB - Felipe Ceglia" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 12:52 PM To: "Dick Grolleman" <[email protected]> Cc: "TopBand" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Topband: Fwd: PQ0T active in 160 > Hello folks, > > I was part of the ZY0T team on 2009. > > I bring a half wafe 160m dipole with commercial made ladder line with me. > I > was not sure of what kind of supports where available. > > We had two stations running simultaneously, some hundreds of meters apart. > One site was PY1ZV and PY1NB and on the other PY1YB and PY1ON. > We set our station inside the navy's radio room, and the other was in > the small house that the island staff used to log data transmitted > from meteorological balloons. > > Close to the radio room, there where 4 or so towers with nearly 15m > height, forming a square, but with nothing connected to them. All in > very bad conditions, lots of rust everywhere, probably they have come > down by now. > I > had no guts to climb to the top, so I placed the apex of the dipole, > in inverted vee configuration about 3/4 high. > > Wall to wall with the radio room was what they called "lan house", a > room with cheap PC's in which the island crew used to get amused on > the internet. Cheap PCs, cheap power supplys, lots of noise and birds > running across low bands. Thats why I was frenetically asking UP1, > UP2, UP3, DN5, DN4, etc. A rat and mouse thing. After everybody seemed > to be gone, I would go to the "lan house" and unplug all the PC's, but > eventually someone would come by and turn them on. Also, the radio was > a FT857, which obviously did not help much. > > On the other station they had a huuuuge amount of noise whan the > computer that received the meteo baloon data had to be turned on, > rendering operation impossible. They borrowed one of such baloon and > hanged a vertical from it. Not exacly over salt water, but close. They > used it for some of the 80m QSOs. I regret I did not play with it, must have > been fun. > > As I had not much expertise in topband by the time, I had no better > insights. If I would do it again, I'd try to set up an inverted L as > close as possible to salt water. Maybe try to set camp away from human > made noise. Maybe bring a simple RX antenna and place it as far as > possible to man made noise. Bring a better rig... > > That operation was not intended to be focused on topband, so I > considered being on 160m a plus, and at the end, considering the > operator's (me) expertise and setup, 100 QSOs was pretty a good figure, hihi. > > 73, > > Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------- PR1T team member /// Rio DX Group member /// Araucaria > DX Group member http://dxwatch.com /// http://reversebeacon.net /// > http://riodxgroup.com > > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Dick Grolleman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> ZY0T did work some 160m in October 2009. >> 119 QSOs : EU 79; NA 32; SA 8 >> >> I was lucky with that one. >> Maybe ask PY1NB what he used for antenna on TB. >> They were only on for 4 days. >> >> 73 de Dick PA3FQA >> >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- From: Steve HA0DU >> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2015 7:16 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Topband: Fwd: PQ0T active in 160 >> >> >> Hopefully they do a better job on 160, than PP0T, who worked 6 >> stations (including 3 Europeans) on 160 in about six weeks time... >> >> >> >> 2015.02.15. 18:34 keltezéssel, Felipe Fogagnolo írta: >> >>> PP5FF . >>> >>> I sent an email to Jaime PP5JD PQ0T operator, about activation in 160 . >>> >>> R: >>> Hello Felipe , we will operate 160m , but little things as we would >>> it ONLY 2 Nights , and When liver hum available Operator >>> >>> we will be a few hours p / week . >>> >>> WHEN speak in 80m , ask if we can do QSY p / 160 . >>> >>> 73, Jaime PP5JD >>> _________________ >>> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband >>> >>> >>> >> >> --- >> Ezt az e-mailt az Avast víruskereső szoftver átvizsgálta. >> http://www.avast.com >> >> _________________ >> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband >> >> _________________ >> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband >> > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
