I believe Tree's main point was the station in question was 2 hours after sunrise at his qth on 160. I heard the same station.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Louis Parascondola via Topband < [email protected]> wrote: > In the case of the RHR guys, they are constantly traveling to their remote > locations doing tower and antenna work. That's what they do. Maintaining > their system requires traveling and time. Ray is about to get his pilot's > license any day now and he will be flying out to his remote locations > instead of driving. > > Took me 2 hours to wire it > all back together and be back up and running. Who does it if the station > is > remote? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ed Sawyer <[email protected]> > To: topband <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, Jan 13, 2016 8:08 pm > Subject: Re: Topband: Strange propagation > > I am sure that this is someone remoting. Nothing wrong with it, in my > opinion. They can legally use their own call assuming they are licensed to > be where they are, which isn't hard on 160M. And its no different than > someone operating from their second home which many ops do. Its just way > more efficient. But isn't that our world today. > > > > Good news is that is activity on the bands and someone using the radio to > DX. How can we complain with that? > > > > It seems non-trivial to me as to how to maintain these remote stations. I > seem to frequently be going out at my place and fixing something. The > other > day I discovered a massive tree branch had come down and ripped out the > feed > and some radial connections on my "omni" vertical for 160, Luckily it > didn't rip down the antenna out of the trees. Took me 2 hours to wire it > all back together and be back up and running. Who does it if the station > is > remote? > > > > Ed N1UR > > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
