George, Heard you this morning (08/10/24) about 45 minutes before local sunrise (10:15 to ~10:45UTC) for about 30 minutes. Noise floor here was running S3-S5 and you were right in that noise floor most of the time. Only a TX antenna, no RX antenna. Although some would say my TX antenna is more of an RX antenna! Parallel inverted L wire tied to feed point of 6BTV 25' vertical to knee, 107' horizontal heading SW. Tried a few times to call you but you were working mostly JA at the time. I need to get up earlier for a better try! At least your signal was heard in TN. EM66IJ! Will try to stay up until 08:00 utc this time instead of relying on alarm to wake me!
73 and GL, Gene, N9TF Clarksville, TN > On 08/09/2024 3:58 PM CDT GEORGE WALLNER <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Generally, we go to 160 around 0500 until we run out of callers. We are > trying for EU at that time, but NA is much appreciated too. Then we QSY to > 80 and come back to 160 around 0830 Z. Stay on 160 as long as we are working > people but it has been slow the past two nights and we had to QSY to a more > "productive" band. We come back to 160 one hour before our SR. > GL and 73, > > George > > > On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 07:50:41 -0600 Mike Fatchett W0MU wrote: > >It doesn't appear that they made it back to 160. Maybe today! > > > >W0MU > > > >On 8/9/2024 2:31 AM, Steve Harrison wrote: > > > >>He'll be back on 160m again soon (probly 08Z or so), for the east coastSR > >>as well as the JA SS (although he may QSY down the band for the JAs).I > >>heard one of the HL3s say something about being restricted to below1820, > >>possibly from QRM, since I've worked HL5IVL on 1823.5. > >>Steve, K0XP > >>On 8/9/2024 1:18 AM, Mike Fatchett W0MU wrote: > >>>The came on early and I nearly worked them but my KAT500 tuner was not > >>>up to the task. I did work them on 80cw easy. I hope they show soon > >>>on 160 again. > >>> > >>>W0MU > >>> > >>>On 8/8/2024 4:22 PM, Ron Spencer via Topband wrote: > >>> > >>>>George, thanks for the Q last night. I'm out in NM and have a verysmall > >>>>set up. Inverted L and maybe 40', beverages to NE and SW (500'long) and > >>>>just 500W. > >>>>As you certainly heard, almost constant QRN. I have no idea how manytimes > >>>>you may have come back to me but finally, enough of a breakwhere I heard > >>>>you, clearly, for just long enough to make the Q. > >>>>On this set up you were maybe S1 or 2. Great ears at your end. > >>>>Thanks for putting Jarvis on the air! > >>>>Ron > >>>>N4XD/5 DM64 > >>>>Sent using https://www.zoho.com/mail/_________________Searchable > >>>>Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - TopbandReflector > >>>_________________ > >>>Searchable Archives: > >>>http://www.contesting.com/_topband > >>> - Topband > >>>Reflector > >>> > >>-- See my QRZ.com page at > >>*https://www.qrz.com/db/K0XP*_________________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
