Andy, TX= 27 meter high Titanex vertical antenna, 55 radials, 25 meter long and 1kW. RX= 8 circle array. QSO around 20min before sunrise after about 30 minutes by the radio.
73, Rune LA7THA ons. 23. apr. 2025 kl. 01:47 skrev <[email protected]>: > Send Topband mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Topband digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. 160m CW QSO VP2VI (Andree Schanko) > 2. Re: 160m CW QSO VP2VI (Richard Thorne) > 3. Re: 160m CW QSO VP2VI ([email protected]) > 4. Re: 160m CW QSO VP2VI ([email protected]) > 5. Re: 160m CW QSO VP2VI (Steven E. Fick) > 6. Re: 160m CW QSO VP2VI (EUGENE GABRY) > 7. Re: 160m CW QSO VP2VI (Steve Harrison) > 8. 160 QSO with VP2VI (Ted Kirst) > 9. Re: 160m CW QSO VP2VI (Henk PA5KT) > 10. Re: 160m CW QSO VP2VI (Wes Stewart) > 11. FW: 160m CW QSO VP2VI (Patrick Parmentier) > 12. Re: 160m CW QSO VP2VI (Udo A. Heinze) > 13. Re: 160m CW QSO VP2VI (KE?L) > 14. Re: 160m CW QSO VP2VI (Steven E. Fick) > 15. Re: 160m CW QSO VP2VI (Don Kirk) > 16. Re: 160m CW QSO VP2VI (Glenn Thorne) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 17:13:43 +0000 > From: Andree Schanko <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Topband: 160m CW QSO VP2VI > Message-ID: > > <trinity-0da51604-0066-4ac7-ad10-7094914db338-1745342023444@trinity-msg-rest-webde-webde-live-84b7bbbbc-mtx22 > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > VP2VI? > > if you had a CW QSO with VP2VI on 160m , please tell me what did you use > as TX antenna and how much power? > Thanks, Andy DL8LAS @ VP2VI > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:17:09 -0500 > From: Richard Thorne <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Topband: 160m CW QSO VP2VI > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Andree, > > I used a 1/4 sloping vertical with an elevated feed point (10' above > ground) with two full size radials going North/South. > > Rich - N5ZC > > On 4/22/2025 12:13 PM, Andree Schanko via Topband wrote: > > VP2VI > > > > if you had a CW QSO with VP2VI on 160m , please tell me what did you > use as TX antenna and how much power? > > Thanks, Andy DL8LAS @ VP2VI > > > > _________________ > > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:39:26 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: Top Band List List <[email protected]> > Cc: Andree Schanko <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Topband: 160m CW QSO VP2VI > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > 13 April 2025 @ 0246Z. Shunt fed tower with HF yagis as top loading. ~1KW > out. Up 1. First call. > > 73 - Steve WB6RSE > > > On Apr 22, 2025, at 10:13 AM, Andree Schanko via Topband < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > VP2VI > > > > if you had a CW QSO with VP2VI on 160m , please tell me what did you > use as TX antenna and how much power? > > Thanks, Andy DL8LAS @ VP2VI > > > > _________________ > > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:13:17 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: Andree Schanko <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Topband: 160m CW QSO VP2VI > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > > TY for our 160 (and other) qso's with the team! > > I used an Inv L (~ 60 feet horizontal) with 1 KW out. > > First call qso - op was excellent and very easy to work but VP2VI signal > was not as strong as I expected. > Maybe 10 - 15 db weaker than what I anticipated. Just about 599. > > 73 > > Bob, KQ2M > > > On 2025-04-22 12:13, Andree Schanko via Topband wrote: > > VP2VI? > > > > if you had a CW QSO with VP2VI on 160m , please tell me what did you > > use as TX antenna and how much power? > > Thanks, Andy DL8LAS @ VP2VI > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:17:11 -0400 > From: "Steven E. Fick" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Topband: 160m CW QSO VP2VI > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:34:11 -0500 (CDT) > From: EUGENE GABRY <[email protected]> > To: Andree Schanko <[email protected]>, Andree Schanko via Topband > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Topband: 160m CW QSO VP2VI > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hello Andy, > > I worked you on April 13 at 0041UTC CW 100 watts to a inverted L ~ 25' > vertical to knee 110' horizontal, wire running west from knee. This 160 > inverted L is a parallel wire to my 6BTV connected to the 6BTV feed point. > You were a solid S9 here in EM66IJ the evening we worked. I have been > checking your freq on 160 when you are there, and you are always at least > S7 and above. Good copy sigs all the time. > > I hope you make more QS on 160. GL es good DX! > > 73, Gene N9TF > EM66IJ > > On 04/22/2025 12:13 PM CDT Andree Schanko via Topband < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > VP2VI? > > > > if you had a CW QSO with VP2VI on 160m , please tell me what did you > use as TX antenna and how much power? > > Thanks, Andy DL8LAS @ VP2VI > > > > _________________ > > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 11:45:40 -0700 > From: Steve Harrison <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Topband: 160m CW QSO VP2VI > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > 750 - 800W output from a homebrew antler tuner (probably 100 - 150 watts > loss), 160m inverted L sloping up from ground some 30 feet from the base > of a 38-foot support tower, then horizontal-sloping top wire toward the > SE, 20 feet high at the end. 4 120 foot radials spread out west to east > on the north side of the sloping vertical wire. Chainlink fence 125 feet > square to the south of the radials, also connected to the feedline > shield. QTH is in the middle of the desert of SoCal. I can forward a > drawing but this reflector doesn't allow them. I laid out this antenna > originally specifically to work 9M2AX, which it did (but only after he > reached S8). No separate RX amtler(s) at present. > > Steve, K0XP > > Wonder Valley > > > On 4/22/2025 10:13 AM, Andree Schanko via Topband wrote: > > VP2VI > > > > if you had a CW QSO with VP2VI on 160m , please tell me what did you > use as TX antenna and how much power? > > Thanks, Andy DL8LAS @ VP2VI > > > > _________________ > > Searchable Archives:http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > -- > See my QRZ.com page at *https://www.qrz.com/db/K0XP* > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:46:42 -0500 > From: Ted Kirst <[email protected]> > To: Andree Schanko via Topband <[email protected]> > Subject: Topband: 160 QSO with VP2VI > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > > > Hi Andree, > > Used K3S at 100 watts and top loaded, shunt fed tower. > > 73, Ted: W1GL > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:14:27 +0200 > From: Henk PA5KT <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Topband: 160m CW QSO VP2VI > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > TX antenna inv L with 21m vertical, horizontal wire bit sloping towards > east. 800Watts. > > https://www.pa5kt.com/index.php/projects/15-vertical-for-160m-80m > > You had nice signal on TX antenna and on RX antenna. (SAL-20). > > 73 Henk PA5KT > > Op 22-4-2025 om 19:13 schreef Andree Schanko via Topband: > > VP2VI > > > > if you had a CW QSO with VP2VI on 160m , please tell me what did you > use as TX antenna and how much power? > > Thanks, Andy DL8LAS @ VP2VI > > > > _________________ > > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 19:25:31 +0000 (UTC) > From: Wes Stewart <[email protected]> > To: Andree Schanko <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Topband: 160m CW QSO VP2VI > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Andy, > Seventeen meter tall aluminum tubing ground-mounted vertical with an > approximately 26 meter long top loading? ("L") wire.? Sixteen, 17 meter > long insulated radials on the ground.? With the Vp of my desert dirt, these > are approximately resonant.? Four hundred watts at the antenna.? Also my RX > antenna. > Wes? N7WS > On Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 10:17:56 AM MST, Andree Schanko via > Topband <[email protected]> wrote: > > VP2VI? > > if you had a CW QSO? with VP2VI on 160m , please tell me what did you use > as TX antenna and how much power? > Thanks, Andy DL8LAS @ VP2VI > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 11 > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:26:56 +0200 > From: "Patrick Parmentier" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Topband: FW: 160m CW QSO VP2VI > Message-ID: <002f01dbb3bc$832a4290$897ec7b0$@be> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Patrick Parmentier [mailto:[email protected]] > Verzonden: dinsdag 22 april 2025 21:10 > Aan: 'Andree Schanko' > Onderwerp: RE: Topband: 160m CW QSO VP2VI > > Hello Andy , just an inv L and a KW ... You guys are doing a fantastic > job ! 73 Pat ON7PQ . > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Topband [mailto:[email protected]] > Namens Andree Schanko via Topband > Verzonden: dinsdag 22 april 2025 19:14 > Aan: [email protected] > Onderwerp: Topband: 160m CW QSO VP2VI > > VP2VI > > if you had a CW QSO with VP2VI on 160m , please tell me what did you use > as TX antenna and how much power? > Thanks, Andy DL8LAS @ VP2VI > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 12 > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 19:38:32 +0000 > From: "Udo A. Heinze" <[email protected]> > To: Andree Schanko <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Topband: 160m CW QSO VP2VI > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Andy > My antenna is an inverted L, 55ft vertical with 30 130ft long radials. > Power was 100 watts. > 73 > Udo NI0G (EM48) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Topband <topband-bounces+uaheinze= > [email protected]> On Behalf Of Andree Schanko via > Topband > Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2025 12:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Topband: 160m CW QSO VP2VI > > VP2VI? > > if you had a CW QSO with VP2VI on 160m , please tell me what did you use > as TX antenna and how much power? > Thanks, Andy DL8LAS @ VP2VI > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 13 > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:44:43 -0400 > From: KE?L <[email protected]> > To: "'Andree Schanko'" <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Topband: 160m CW QSO VP2VI > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Andy, > I worked VP2VI on April 21st at 02:11utc. VP2VI was very loud here and > in the clear. You appeared to be calling CQ with very few responses. I > was using an InvL at approx 50' vertical for both receive and transmit. > Power out was about 100w and you answered on my first call. I spotted you > right after along with QSX and it didn't seem to really help you out very > much. Not sure why as you were fairly loud here on the InvL. > > Thanks for the new country on 160! > > 73 > Jim, KE?L > > -----Original Message----- > From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces+jfielder= > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Andree Schanko via > Topband > Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2025 1:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Topband: 160m CW QSO VP2VI > > VP2VI > > if you had a CW QSO with VP2VI on 160m , please tell me what did you use > as TX antenna and how much power? > Thanks, Andy DL8LAS @ VP2VI > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 14 > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:48:54 -0400 > From: "Steven E. Fick" <[email protected]> > To: Andree Schanko <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Topband: 160m CW QSO VP2VI > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 15 > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:51:08 -0400 > From: Don Kirk <[email protected]> > To: Andree Schanko <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Topband: 160m CW QSO VP2VI > Message-ID: > <CAKtW65euDG9ccqi3M7zvfG8_PaCak3qiEj= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi Andy, > > 100 watts to a 68 foot base loaded vertical with 55 short buried > radials(2500 feet of radials). Worked you 5 minutes before my sunset when > you were just above my noise floor whereas you were much stronger 1.5 hours > later. I was amazed you heard me. Located near Indianapolis Indiana. > > 73, > Don wd8dsb > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 2:07?PM Andree Schanko via Topband < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > VP2VI > > > > if you had a CW QSO with VP2VI on 160m , please tell me what did you use > > as TX antenna and how much power? > > Thanks, Andy DL8LAS @ VP2VI > > > > _________________ > > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > > Reflector > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 16 > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 17:09:58 -0500 > From: Glenn Thorne <[email protected]> > To: Andree Schanko <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Topband: 160m CW QSO VP2VI > Message-ID: > <CAGxKSDzmHc9cSedmG7=Q5iG+= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > KW to 265 ft OCF Inverted Vee @ 75 ft. > > Thanks for the QSO! 73, Glenn - KD0Q > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 1:00?PM Andree Schanko via Topband < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > VP2VI > > > > if you had a CW QSO with VP2VI on 160m , please tell me what did you use > > as TX antenna and how much power? > > Thanks, Andy DL8LAS @ VP2VI > > > > _________________ > > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > > Reflector > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Topband mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Topband Digest, Vol 268, Issue 10 > **************************************** > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
