I called K5P for four hours on 160 while at the same time nearby KH6AT
was reporting my signal was 589 in Hawaii and even FW8JJ spotted me in
the pile up. They were up to 579 most of the time and stead. Before I
tear my antenna apart I hope my problem was that their RX antenna for
160 has a deep null in my direction. I even called on the exact
frequency of station they just work many times only to get a CQ in my
face. I have a 1/4 top loaded vertical and an Alpha 87A which should
conceivably be able to do better. But for some reason they could easily
work NA stations with a low dipole or a bent inverted L all across the
country.
Very strange.
Herb
On 1/15/2016 10:11 AM, Les Kalmus wrote:
Apparently, they had problems tuning the Battle Creek Special and were
using a SteppIR vertical the first day.
That's been fixed and was what they were using today.
It's bad enough they were working JA's during this morning's opening
but I heard them call EU too and was shaking my head.
Les W2LK
On 1/15/2016 7:23 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
Heard very well here in MD from 1120Z-1220Z on my west-facing
pennant, deep
fade at my sunrise to ESP. Working mostly JA's but trying for NA.
(Although
at least once K5P called for EU!)
Tim N3QE
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 5:48 AM, Carl Braun <[email protected]>
wrote:
At 1040z here in so cal the K5P station went from NIL to 599 on
Topband.
Maybe someone found the ON button for the amp?
Carl AG6X
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