I've been watching this with some interest, as I have the "Top Band disease" and conclude a number of things: 1) 160 is not fair, propagation can be one way (I hear you, you do not hear me...) 2)

Using an end-fed wire. Oriented kind of NW-SE. And running about 50 watts.  Crank it up to 80 watts at times on this band, but any higher start getting ALC.  SWR is about 1.4 on the wire. My

Dan, I have heard (and personally observed) what we consider to be a bit of a defense against excessive in-migration, particularly from California and south. Folks who move to Western WA from those

I'm using a simple 160M dipole at about 25" an I have hadgood luck on 160. But again, most contacts have been East coast lataly. Randy W4RTT From: 070Club@groups.io <070Club@groups.io> on behalf of

Rick - that's a bit of surprising news with your inverted L, as verticals dominate on top band from what I hear. For transmitting I mean... the beverages and other "different" antennas are supposed to

Like Rick, I find the propagation better N/S than E/W. Worked N2MLP in PA last night. Saw a couple of faint traces, but could not get any decode from them. Only heard a couple of CW signals and no

And this on antennas on small lots.. audiosystemsgroup.com/160MPacificon.pdf

www.solar.spacew.com/cq/cqmar98.pdf

Maybe this will help... http://www.spacew.com/www/160pred.html

I would like to hear how you are top loading that vertical for 160M...I am using a Cushcraft AP8A..and can almost get it to tune on 160..well, get the swr down to 2:1 anyway..but who knows what the R

HAVE TO AGREE Its hit or miss

Think it might be a combination of all those factors plus a bit of "luck". Had a bit of luck with my 160m Alpha-Delta DX-A homebrew dual sloper on 160 and managed to work a station in Iowa running 5

Jerry- No worry Jerry, I think you qualify as "wise," but you've got to be from a long line of native born in Florida to be a "cracker" - hi hi. Google "florida cracker."

Rick: Not trying to be a wise cracker, but I think the answer to all your questions is YES. Propagation has a lot to do with it, but so does the antenna, power out, soil conductivity, time of

Jim- You may have said earlier and I missed it, but what are you using for an antenna on 160?  If it is a wire, how is it oriented?  How much power are you using? Rick - N7WE -- *Rick -

Hey Jim — Oh yes, wonderful takes on salmon for sure. I had a lot of smoked salmon and they knew how to do it!!! Dan Morris KZ3T dbmorris315@... I live to live for Him!

And I am curious about it also. The other evening I could see 4-5 stations, with great copy on KX4WB and some copy on the others. But the only one that I could QSO with was KX4WB, nobody

Can someone help me understand what is going on with 160m and the group? Seems like up and down the east coast we can make contacts. Jim - K5SP - just north of Dallas Texas isn't having much luck

Dan, I was stationed on Whidbey Island back in 67-69, when there was a Naval Communications Station there.� Spent about 3 months in relay center on the old seaplane base, and the rest

David, So true.  There is always something that you can't get even if you have a 500 ft. tower and a monster beam. Rolling Stones said it well, "You can't always get what you want." "But if you