[OKDXA] 160 last night...

[Robert Redmon]

Kim,

Last night was pretty typical for us. Lots of qsb. On my NE beverage, 
signals out of EU were S1-S5 (noise floor S1). If you were listening on 
the TX antenna, you probably had S7-S9 noise, making the DX seem very 
weak. Try right at the gray line. Noise is lowest and signals are 
strongest. Stations spotting EU as "booming" are usually on the East 
coast, but I have seen them as strong as S9 here...very rare.

73, Bob K5SM



Kim Elmore wrote:
> Well, I decided to gut out 160 last night and see what I could do. 
> \\I figured out some better settings on the Orion II to help and used 
> my K9AY loops to the best ability I had. I worked SM4CAN, F5IN, OM2XW 
> and HA5JI. U se my 50 ft tower shunt fed through a remotely tunable 
> L-network for transmitting. I had radials at one time, but the puppy 
> (now dog) chewed them up. Still, the ground is saturated, so I should 
> be doing relatively well.
>
> I kept seeing spots claiming that these guys were "booming" in. They 
> never boomed in at my QTH. This was hard work. I used the amp with 
> about 700 W output to work them, but I was amazed that even those 
> they tended to be in the mud most of the time, I actually did work 
> them. Honestly, if I had tuned across these signals hunting on my 
> own, I'd have passed them right by declaring the path too poor to be 
> useable. I caught these guys only through Internet spots.
>
> So, for you 160 veterans, I have this question: is this typical of 
> 160, or am I simply a spoiled newbie? Are signals signals you can 
> actually hear considered booming?
>
> Kim Elmore N5OP
>
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