Hi all, Let me add my 2 cents comment too , here. Apart from resenting comments, perceived as such, which is important, I seems to me IMHO that all of you are right - Bob’s ( AA6VB) and .. Larry’s ( N7DD) et al !
I ‘ m living in Versailles on a very small lot too ( 400 sq-meters) ; my antennas are two delta-loops , hanging down from nice neighbors building.. I worked Larry the other morning , ( around SR here at abt 7:30z ) , I couldn’t believed it! I never got beyond your Eastern States! He emerged faintly out of the S9 noise for a couple of minutes. Just as Bob said. I was alerted by a few guys around me in Europe who called him. Larry copied me as F3WQ, as I punched a series of my call right on his frequency on my Orion1 à 100 watts barefoot. He later confirmed par e-mail me as sort of 339 signal , correcting my call! Larry is right in saying it is all abt hearing. My “hearing” set-up was thru the said delta-loops in stereo/pseudo - diversity. But most important to me so far was my 2 analog AF-peak-filters from Dierking GD83 at full narrowness ( 10 Hz or below)- a salvage to get rid of all the digital noise-crap from A/D and D/A conversions in the RX signal - path of that despite excellent transceiver. Encouraged, my plans are for a K9AY rx- ant soon. My 2 cts.. 73 Pierre, F3WT _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
