Hello Jeff, Thanks for your TIPs email, may I also ask you to listen from time to time to WEST EUROPE, Asia is really really hard from our part of the world.
Thanks. 73's Filipe Lopes CT1ILT - CR6K F4VPX - TM3M k1zm--- via Topband <[email protected]> escreveu no dia domingo, 30/12/2018 à(s) 22:58: > Hi Gang > Our team is getting ready for V84SAA and we just posted some operating > notes for Topband on our website which is now live. > In addition to what is there, please take a look at the tips below which > may HELP U WORK US! > From 9M0W - I personally learned this is one of the most gawd-awful paths > into Eastern NA imaginable! > It is hard to appreciate what we will be dealing with coming out of our > headphones: > a) Doppler shift on weak NA signals. > b) Dropped portions of morse CW characters - like instead of HEARING W4ZV > - what I swore I heard was N4IS calling me one morning. I totally missed > the W - I heard the 4 and from the Z I did not hear the two DAHS in the Z. > What I then heard was 4 dit dit and then from the V I heard the dit dit > dit and not the DAH at the end of the V!! > So since that is what we will be dealing with - even with the BEST xmit > antennas we can manage and some good RX antennas, we are going to have to > work very HARD to deal with this kind of tough path. > BUT YOU CAN HELP US!!! > > Please do *****not**** simply call us ONCE at 35wpm on a qsb peak - and > then wait for the next several CQ passes from us to call us again. > That may seem logical - but it is not what will likely get you in our log. > I personally recommend that you keep sending your call - over and over - > which in the end may allow us to piece it together somehow. > KJ9I is a perfect example of someone who did it right at 9M0W. I blew his > call several times - but because he kept sending it over and over - I > finally managed to piece it together and Dave now has a richly deserved > 9M0W qsl to show for it. > So without beating this to death too much - please appreciate what we will > be dealing with and try to adapt your calling sequences to what we know > will work best for US. > 9M0W was a humbling experience for us out there - and even though you will > have some pretty damned good lowband ops trying to work you on Topband - I > can guarantee you that it will be really tough to get anyone East of the > Mississippi River into our 160m log. > Please note - we have a really good darkness overlap with all of NA > starting at our SUNSET each evening. > We also will have some great LONGPATH opening chances into > VE1/VE9/VY2/VO1/VO2 and then W1/2/3 at your local SUNSET here on the East > Coast of NA. > Remember - it will likely be SHORTPATH well before your local SR time > (meaning you aim to the N/NW) skirting the auroral ovals at our Sunset and > you want to look SE at your SUNSET over the long path to work us - meaning > you aim at about 150 degrees. This will correspond to our local SR event. > Last year there really was no path for us SE over the longpath at our SS - > although NO3M reported the path did shift around at his Rx location - but > even for him it was mainly a shortpath event. And he should know because > Eric was our most NE contact from 9M0W and he heard us several times coming > over the pole out of the NE. > Good luck to all - we are a little more than a month away now. > HNY to all > 73 JEFF K1ZM/VY2ZM > > Jeff BriggsDXing on the Edge: The Thrill of 160 Meters Available worldwide > through BookBaby, Array Solutions, DX Engineering, Royal Society of Great > Britain, & Amazon > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
