[160m] Re: 160m Digest, Vol 28, Issue 2

[d.cutter at ntlworld.com]

Hi Nils

I would be very interested to know how you measure field strength and how you compare it from season to season (wet, dry, snow etc).  

All the best

David
G3UNA
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> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:17:33 +0200
> From: "Nils Petter Pedersen" <nils.pedersen at tele2.no>
> Subject: [160m] Re: 160m Digest, Vol 28, Issue 1
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> Hello everybody !
> Someone asked for a comment about conds from "a little closer to the pole"..
> Beeing located in Norway at abt 60North, I must agree that this year has 
> been
> an absolute low in propagation. I have got a lot of good sleep at night, and 
> very little activity. We have seen auroras and CME's a lot of the time. Our 
> contest
> station (LN8W) on the premises has been fairly active this winter, but 
> operators have been complaining about "poor antennas". The antennas are ok, 
> field strength measurements are normal, but low band has been catastrophic.
> Greetings from Norway !!
> 73 de LA7SL
> at LA8W/LN8W
> //
> > Hello Eddy. I joined the list several months ago but here isn't much 
> > activity. In fact there is a lot more activity on 160 then here on the 
> > list. Maybe everyone has been busy enjoying the winter band conditions!
> >
> > K3PID
> > Ron H.
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> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:56:27 -0500
> From: "EP Swynar" <gswynar at durham.net>
> Subject: Re: [160m] New To The List
> To: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji at contesting.com>, <160m at mailman.qth.net>
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> On Monday 26 May, Tom wrote...
> 
> >  this minimum isn't much better than the maximum was for 160 meters. I
> actually think it is worse,
>  but I don't have any hard statistics.
> 
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> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Well, one thing's for sure, I'm just glad that I did all of the prep work
> over the past summer that I did, in anticipation of superior conditions this
> past season! (I re-built my linear amplifier, strung up a second K9AY loop,
> erected a 1300' Beverage,  installed a 3-element phased triangular "L"
> array, among other things --- I was busy!).
> 
> Despite the less-than-stellar conditions, I still managed to go from 84, to
> 108 DXCC countries worked on the band, since the start of things in
> September...I can only imagine how I may have fared had I NOT done all of
> the groundwork in advance of the season that I did.
> 
> The XYL here is now talking about raking the lawn some coming weekend
> soon...there go my radials! Alas & alak, the end is nigh...
> 
> ~73!~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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