Hi Jon and gang, I worked VP2VI last night on 160 meters CW at 08:23pm EDT which was five minutes before my sunset when they were just above my noise floor so they have very good receive capabilities as I was only running 100 watts and my 68 foot base loaded vertical for TX. I also made a brief recording of them calling CQ at 9:54pm EDT when their signal had really come up in strength and I just uploaded it to youtube. Here is a link to my recording for those interested: https://youtu.be/JWBtEmvMESE
Just FYI, Don (wd8dsb) On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM jon jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Guten Abend, Andy. > > VP2VI was strong to the Midwest USA last evening around 0330 UTC on FT8 > but no luck getting through with 100 watts and vertical. Understand QRN in > the > Caribbean is high. > > Hope to work you! > > 73 — Jon N0JK > > > Hello from VP2VI,? > we are every evening on 160m in CW. > We know that we can be heard very well, but your signals are extremely > weak here. > We don't have local QRM, but static crashes, so please call QRS. > We have good RX antennas, we can also hear on the vertical antenna. > We'll try everything to get you into the log. > We now have 1070 QSOs in CW. > If the conditions are bad we switch to FT8. > 73 Andy DL8LAS VP2VI? > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Topband mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Topband Digest, Vol 268, Issue 7 > *************************************** > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
