Is that the same set up you used on 80m? You had the loudest signal on 80m coming out of the Caribbean!
73, AA0FO On Mon, Dec 1, 2025, 4:42 PM Joel Harrison <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > It is a 78 Ft tower with 2 triband Yagi’s shunt fed with a few radials. > It’s about 50 feet from the waters edge. > > Stan K5GO has considered putting up a 160 meter vertical closer to the > water but the shunt fed tower has performed extremely well in past contests > and DX’ing so we haven’t changed what’s working!! > > 73 Joel W5ZN / ZF2ZN > > > On Dec 1, 2025, at 4:16 PM, Mike Fulcher <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Joel, > > > > What is the antenna there for 160? You were loud here in Phoenix. > > > > Mike KC7V > > > >> On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM jon jones <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Great score Joel at ZF5T on 160 Meters! > >> > >> The geomagnetic field was active during the CQ WW CW with storm > conditions > >> Friday evening. And with thunderstorm QRN Saturday evening it made for > >> challenging conditions from the Caribbean on the Topband. > >> > >> 810 contacts in 75 countries is amazing in light of this. > >> > >> 73 — Jon N0JK > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> Message: 1 > >> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 13:13:18 -0500 > >> From: Joel Harrison <[email protected]> > >> To: uy0zg <[email protected]> > >> Cc: Kenny Silverman <[email protected]>, Topband > >> <[email protected]> > >> Subject: Re: Topband: TK0C skimmer on 160 > >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > >> > >> Hi Nick, > >> > >> I was the 160 meter op at ZF5T. Thanks for the Q and glad to put you in > >> our log. > >> > >> Condx from ZF Friday evening to EU were very gud but around 0330z to > 0400z > >> the band went pretty much dead to EU. There was no EU SR peak. > >> > >> Saturday around 0130z we had horrible QRN from a storm somewhere in the > >> Caribbean that made copy on 160 and 80 near impossible. It calmed down > >> around 0300z but condx were very bad to EU and sigs weak. > >> > >> To the west our furthest contact was with KH6J and one other station on > >> Hawaii but that was it. No JA?s or anything else. We had JA?s spotted on > >> the cluster but they were being picked up by a JA skimmer. > >> > >> Overall it was a good weekend but could have been great with some better > >> condx and no QRN during the Saturday evening session. We finished with > 810 > >> Q?s, 18 Zones, and 75 countries on 160 from ZF for the weekend. > >> > >> 73 Joel W5ZN / ZF2ZN > >> > >> _________________ > >> Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > >> Reflector > >> > > > > > > -- > > 73, Mike KC7V > > Arizona Outlaws Contest Club > > _________________ > > 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
