Hello Robin, Hear you call two nights ago on CW. I worked George a few minutes later. Now have 5 acres here in AZ to grow antenna and they seem to work. QTH is quiet too.
George, thanks for the FT8 qso last night with W7YA, 3:30 am, with my AZ call I use on FT8. That makes 9 bands. 73, Ray, N6VR/W7YA On Fri, Jun 23, 2023, 3:06 PM m.r.c. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi George > > I could hear you well enough on 1827.5 to ID over my city lot S8 noise in > So > Calif, but no chance you would hear my 100 watts and a random wire > > The guys fussed at me when I added a dozen full length radials to the > Titanex - > we already had about 8 - it was up on the hard pan of the lava bed not > down at > the water. > > and we had stagger paired 1000 ft beverages that made it work like a 5 > element > beam - and in the MUCH better part of the solar cycle. > > I don't think getting the radials into the water would be of any benefit - > just > full length so that the RF current had someplace to flow with the short > radiator.. > > thanks for making this possible. Its a huge improvement over the monster > infrastructure we had to set up. More antenna of course is always > better, but > not having to build and maintain living and operating quarters is an > incredible > improvement- even to just operator fatigue - we had 7 stations and only 12 > ops > > 73 > > Robin > WA6CDR/VP6DX > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "GEORGE WALLNER" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, June 23, 2023 10:12 > Subject: Re: Topband: VP6A > > > >I was on 1827.5 from 0200 and form 0930 but there very very few callers. > Most > >signals that I've copied were just barely above the noise. > > Apart form the lack of activity and high QRN in the northern hemisphere, > we > > have very poor ground at the antenna. We put out a lot of radials but > could > > not connect directly to the salt water. > > > > > > Anyway, this is not a good time for TB here. > > 73, > > George > > > > > > > > On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 05:33:45 -0700 Wes wrote: > >>I saw this when I got out of bed at 1000Z :-) > >> > >>Not that it mattered. One peep was about all I heard. Saw you spotted > on 60 > >>but nothing seen. That's okay, worked you on 6/20. > >> > >>Still need 10 and 40 SSB too to fill my Bingo card. > >> > >>Wes N7WS > >> > >>On 6/22/2023 9:12 PM, GEORGE WALLNER wrote: > >> > >>>I will start around 0930. > >>>GL,George > >>> > >>_________________ > >>Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband > >> - Topband Reflector > >> > > > > _________________ > > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > > > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
