I recognize immediately the distinct Disadvantage we have being here in the middle of the country. We have no Saltwater here other than that you make. Although working all the states is relatively easy, making it across either of the Oceans from here is a trip of 7,000 miles. No small feat on top band by my experience. I have yet to experience the low end of a solar cycle and look forward to that as I looked forward to the activity of the peaks on HF.
Equipment for topband includes: Quarter wave vertical (with 60-1/4 wave
radials),
Two Beverage antennas both 580 feet long one at 45 Degrees (Europe) and one at 90/270 Deg (Africa, Australia)
Two FT 1000 MP's
A TL-922A Amplifier (would love and Alpha or Acom)
Heil headsets, Vibroplex Keyer, Writelog Logging Software
I only have a few TopBand Contacts confirmed so far but will be looking for many more in the mail soon.
Worked DX side at PJ2T contest station under PJ2/AE9B and had several good contacts with Europe and a tremendous pileup. I was excited to give these contacts to the long awaiting EU crowd.
Worked all States . Thanks to Les KL7J for Alaska my last one on 160M
CFM 63 DX (Update 01/30//2004)
6W, 6Y, 8P, 9A, 9Y, A3, C6, CE, CE0/E, CY0, D4, DL, EA, EA6, EA8, EI, EU, F, FM, FP, FS, G, GD, GW, HA, HB, HC8, HH, HI, HK, HO, HR, I, J2, J8, JA, K, KG4, KH1, KH3, KH5K, KH6, KL7, KP2, LX, LY, OE, OK, OM, ON, OZ, P4, PA, PJ2, PJ5, PY, PY0/F, S5, SM, SP, T32, TG, TI, TI9, UA1, V2 V3, V4, V7, VE VK, VP2/E, VP5,VP9, VU, XE, YN, YU, YV, ZD8, ZF, ZP, ZS