[OKDXA] 160 last night...

[John Geiger]

And just think if we ever get an allocation at 137khz or 500khz.  Talk about masochistic!

73s John AA5JG

--- On Thu, 12/31/09, Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [OKDXA] 160 last night...
> To: "Discussion of OKDXA" <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Thursday, December 31, 2009, 11:22 PM
> Hi Bob,
> 
> Thanks for the assessment.
> 
> I was listening on my Array Solutions K9AY loop system. I'm
> lucky in 
> that I live in a very radio-quiet place: between E 48th and
> E 60th on 
> Robinson, east of Norman. I did a W8JI test early on and
> found that 
> in Summer my night time noise levels far exceeded my
> daytime noise 
> levels, indicating I'm in a radio quiet location. The loops
> do help 
> quite a bit: tonight, the loops with the loop preamp on and
> the 
> bandwidth dialed down to about 400 Hz yields a noise level
> typically 
> less than S1 on my Orion II. On the TX antenna, I see noise
> levels 
> between S1 and S3 (this is with the receiver's preamp off
> and RF gain 
> wide open).
> 
> But, to the point: what I heard is, then, typical for 160.
> My friend 
> is right: it's a masochist's band!  I'll play more
> with the gray line 
> (I find early morning seems more productive than evening)
> and see how 
> things are. My hat's off to anyone that makes  160
> DXCC! Heck, 160 
> WAS seems a worthy goal!
> 
> Happy New Year and 73,
> 
> Kim N5OP
> 
> 
> At 08:38 PM 12/31/2009, you wrote:
> >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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