[ADXA] Check out W5RZ on pskreporter!!!

[Michael Nettles]

Steve, if you were being received on 160 maybe a Pennant receive antenna
along with a vertical for TX would work? I'm off work Friday so hoping the
DX is out there Thursday night!
73
Mike kb5wbh

On Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:47 AM Michael Nettles <kb5wbh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jussi, I have an old multistrand cable over 100ft long that runs directly
> underneath the Inverted L on the ground as one ground wire.  Plus I live on
> 3 lots and I attached a ground wire to the chain link fence that runs
> around the property. Probably not the best but seems to work.
> After seeing the the receive results of both pennants I maybe adding that.
> My TS2000 has a receive only port.
> 73
> Mike kb5wbh
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 6:45 PM Steven Rutledge <steven.t.rutledge at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Mike, great work.  That is amazing to me.  I'm totally unfamiliar with
>> 160.  I tried a vertical on my city lot but I couldn't hear anyone.
>>
>> Steve, N4JQQ
>> On 1/28/2025 5:54 PM, Michael Nettles wrote:
>>
>> Dennis, only 100w here and I've worked 48 Countries so far using Inverted
>> L antennas. Ya gotta get in there. Some are easy and some are harder to get.
>> 73
>> Mike kb5wbh
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 9:32 AM Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, Randy.  The results were pretty amazing.  Whatever anyone thinks
>>> of FT8, that mode plus tools like PSKReporter are excellent for evaluating
>>> things.
>>>
>>> The pennant is among trees, but I thought I had a clear spot.  As I
>>> pulled out the pointy end, small branches kept grabbing, and it ended up
>>> like a rough looking right triangle instead of a pennant.  I tried to put
>>> the null where I thought the main noise source was (South), and it appears
>>> to work.
>>>
>>>  Two JA’s were copied this morning.  Last night, most of Europe plus
>>> Kuwait came in.  34 countries in all since last night.
>>>
>>> Now to see if I can work anything with just 100 watts!
>>>
>>> I think it will also work very well on 80, so I’m going to try to get
>>> from 96 to 100 on that band.
>>>
>>> Randy helped a lot with this project, and I appreciate it.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Dennis/RZ
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM Randell Curtis, W5ZJ via ADXA <
>>> adxa at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks to Dennis, W5RZ for getting his pennant antenna up yesterday and
>>>> reporting to pskreporter last night. I was excited when one of his first DX
>>>> receptions was 9K2HM in Kuwait.
>>>>
>>>> Check out what he received by plugging his call sign into pskreporter
>>>> and setting the options to received on 160 for the past 24 hours. We both
>>>> had a pretty good evening of receiving. While not as good as the larger
>>>> receiving arrays, it does make a tremendous difference if you have noise
>>>> issues. It will also work on 40 and 80. I used it on 40 a couple days ago
>>>> to work Mt Athos on 40 early in the evening when my noise was high.
>>>>
>>>> While checking my DXCC totals on 160, which is only 38 confirmed, I
>>>> noticed that one of those was HI. I had worked the same station in HI twice
>>>> over the last couple years, but he only confirmed QRZ. Apparently at some
>>>> point he uploaded his log to LOTW. I was happy to see this because it
>>>> finally finished WAS from 6-160 (no 60 meters).
>>>>
>>>> I am going to celebrate with Dennis and his overnight success by have a
>>>> cup of strong black coffee.
>>>>
>>>> Have a great day and Good DXing
>>>> Randy/W5ZJ
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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