Try 75m ............... phone. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Vinnie
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Try 75m ............... phone. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Vinnie
KJ3N,
Well, us 'Left Coasters' think you guys have it easy on the low bands (unless u r after the Pacific area, of course).
I'm at 202 confirmed on 80, but by far the most of that is on CW. The 3800 window is a zoo. Antenna is a 4-square for that band. Life is tough, but DX'ing is great. The big challange now is 160. Just getting started on that band.
Oh, see that you have a K-3! How u like that radio? Just bought one. Picking it up Saturday.
Yep, making EU isn't a problem on most bands. My issues are with Indonesia, East Indies, parts of Asia, etc. I've worked Laos twice (once on 15m and once on 20m), Thialand once (20m), some JAs (75m, 15m, and 20m), and 1 or 2 BYs (20m). Most of the southwestern Pacific island nations are also a PITA. You probably work that stuff nearly every day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vinnie
I can only dream.....Quote:
I'm at 202 confirmed on 80, but by far the most of that is on CW. The 3800 window is a zoo. Antenna is a 4-square for that band.
All I can manage is one antenna for 160m. 65 feet tall with 2 top hat wires, 45 feet long each. The radial system needs a lot of work, unfortunately. I keep telling myself I'll get around to it, but it never seems to happen. I'm going to shoot for DXCC on that band, on phone. I figure it'll take several years, at least.Quote:
Life is tough, but DX'ing is great. The big challange now is 160. Just getting started on that band.
Love mine. Coming up on 2 years old. IMO, no other radio offers this level of performance, while still being reasonably affordable. You might (and I stress MIGHT) out-perform it with an FTDX-9000, but that's not what I call an "affordable" radio.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vinnie
Aha, same antenna I use on 160! Made of 40' of 4" irrigation pipe with 30' of 3" stuck in the top, t hen two wires for the hat. Put a couple of high voltage mica caps to ground to do impedence matching, and 70 odd radials laid out on the ground. In a year or so they disappeared into the grass, so my lawnmower has only 'eaten' a couple of them....gruesome.
So, when you work some rare stuff in Europe on 160 tell'um there's a K7 calling from the West Coast!
One of the nice things about living in the middle of the country...2 winters ago I put up a really low 160 vee (45'). I managed 89 countries on 160 that season. One of them (T33) was an all time new one.Quote:
Originally Posted by KJ3N
Geez, the thing I remember most about trying to work DX 45 years ago in S. Dak was that we had to get through the guys on BOTH coasts! Had a Heathkit Apache and an SX-101 in those days, before running off to college and not being able to DX again for several years......