in 9Q land
Sound files from RA6AX ( 9Q1EK on 160m)
http://iq.73.ru/ra6ax/9q1ek-1-160m.mp3
http://iq.73.ru/ra6ax/9q1ek-2-160m.mp3
I'd started the 160m, January 21, 2007 with the help of Philippe 9Q1TB for the installation of a L inverted antenna.
In our place, it is not easy to install some antennas. Especially for 160m .
All my antennas dipoles are fixed on the neighbor's wall on telescopics mast.
With a space of 4m available x 8m for the car parking.
For the inverted L !!!! What adventure !! It was necessary to see the neighbor and to ask the authorization to be going to put over his home a small wire for esthetic… After several discussions we finally could conduct the installation.
On this day I’ve a total for about 340 QSO, but achieved in an indescribable "hell."
In our place, it is not easy to install some antennas. Especially for 160m .
All my antennas dipoles are fixed on the neighbor's wall on telescopics mast.
With a space of 4m available x 8m for the car parking.
For the inverted L !!!! What adventure !! It was necessary to see the neighbor and to ask the authorization to be going to put over his home a small wire for esthetic… After several discussions we finally could conduct the installation.
On this day I’ve a total for about 340 QSO, but achieved in an indescribable "hell."
21 january 2007 to 23 April 2007: 50 DXCC contacted
Every day the QRN is at 59 +. The best that I could heard was 57 since the month of January.
The first month, the stations wonder if I was deaf or what?
It is not easy to manage a pile up without discipline in this hell. It is very discouraging.
I heard that it is called also the "gentlemen's band". a mistake ???
Believe me, I failed to make QSY very often, I am not masochist, but too much HAM friends need to contact 9Q land on this band. For this reason that I tried to pursue again the activity during the time or the propagation goes well from Africa.
With a station as ICOM IC756PROIII + 500W and the L antenna , it is small..
I will like to be able to install a rhombic, a double K9AY or a magnetic loop. But not possible here…
Therefore here in Kinshasa since January 21, 2007,
for me the .....
"TOP BAND" is "STATIC CRASH BAND"
I am going in the next days to send a couple of few CQ on the "Magic band" while hoping to have some openings….. And more of calmness hi!! And will NOT be the "TRAGIC BAND", hi
