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" <aa7jv@atlanticbb.net>
To: <topband@contesting.com>
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
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