Phil,

Are you using your G5RV to transmit on 160?

If so, do you short the twin lead and run it as a top loaded 
vertical when you work top band?

I have a shortened sloper that I hope to hang in time for 
the contest this year.

It won't be done today, however, as it is currently 22 
degrees here in Jackson, Ms.

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

K5XU


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 12:53 AM
Subject: W1AW signal reports from Denver


I have memory buttons programmed for all the W1AW 
frequencies on each band
they transmit CW practice.  I use them to determine current 
band conditions
but I also have programmed into memory the beacons on the 
various bands.  I
always check their signal, that is, W1AW, on 160 meters both 
summer and
winter.  Tonight was the best W1AW signal I have heard for a 
long time.  I
sat and copied it for several minutes at 1830 local Denver 
time; Mountain
Standard.  Skip was long because their signal wasn't much 
better on 80 and
even weaker on 40.  As I tuned the phone band on 75 meters 
about 2200 local
time, I copied several SSB Europeans on 3792 and I have a 
continuous S9 line
noise on 80 meters.  I copied Austria, Ireland, Finland, and 
Germany and
some were Q5 copy, too.  I'm only using a simple G5RV at 38 
feet and it is
the 105 foot version.  When I lived in western Colorado in a 
small town of
800 people, we lived up above the town in a new housing 
area.  Out my front
window, you could see for 20 miles before any of the 
mountains peaks were
visible.  My inverted vees for 40 and 80 were only 30 and 35 
feet high
broadside to the east and west and since it was a new 
housing subdivision,
all cables were underground.  I had zero line noise on all 
bands and I
copied, and worked, stuff on 80 meters I rarely hear in 
Denver due to all
the band noise.  By the way, W1AW at 6:30 PM local never 
moved the S meter
but was clear above the background band noise and was 
probably the strongest
I've heard them in several years on the top band.  I have 
all but the state
of Main on 160 with my 100 watts.  It sure is fun on 80 and 
160 when the
conditions get like this.  By the way, Alan, KD7GC, I heard 
you on 40
sideband the other night talking to friends briefly and you 
were 30 over
running that 600 watts you mentioned.  I have also been 
copying, sometimes
Q5, that 9K2 you guys talk with on 40 around 7 PM Denver 
time.  Not bad for
a little G5RV hardly off the ground.  I sure miss my 40 
meter beam.

K0NX
Phil.
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