Re: Topband: Fwd: WSPR and topband

The Reverse Beacon Network (RBN) is always available. 73, Bill KU8H Bark less - wag more > On Apr 26, 2023, at 2:45 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: > > >> Perhaps someone can define exactly what that means in the case of a >> WSPR signal (or even FT8). > > Attended means: > > Present in the s

Re: Topband: Lack of DX CW Activity

 A note from the peanut gallery. This is topb...@contest.com I am on a postage stamp lot and the house & garage occupy approximately the middle one third. The frontage is not usable for antenna systems due to the underground utilities and overhead power lines. I am limited to compromise anten

Re: Topband: FT-8 vs CW

Hi Rick, I don't have a memory keyer. I do intend to set up a computer or something to make the calls (CQ) while I do other things near the radios. When somebody replies it will be back to sending by hand for me. I do prefer CW. I am not even sure where a working mic is hidden - I think I ha

Re: Topband: Transmit High Pass Filters for BCB Interference

Hi, Some radios do not have a separate receive antenna connector. The 'friend' wants an out of the box solution. Without a sparate RX antenna connector it would be required to handle the transmitter power. 73, Bill KU8H On 7/29/19 1:24 PM, Tree wrote: Normally - you would only put BCB fil

Re: Topband: Which RX antenna is better?

Hi, I am on a small lot now and have barely been able to get signal out on 160 meters. A full size antenna for 80 meters won't really fit without some "crunching". I am ever going to be a world beater on either of those bands but I do get to play. On a couple of other mail reflectors we all agr

Re: Topband: BOG height

Hi Wes, That's what I thought too. But what di I know. I also wonder who is buried in Grant's tomb. 73, Bill KU8H On 8/1/19 2:01 PM, Wes wrote: Doesn't "BOG" mean, Beverage On Ground?  If so, isn't the answer, "on the ground"? Wes  N7WS On 8/1/2019 10:08 AM, Paul Mclaren wrote: Just a

Re: Topband: BOG height

Hi, I don't have room for a 160 meter BOG here.I have been thinking of experimenting some wire on the ground at least for 80, 40, maybe 30 meters. I can only get by deploying at night and rolling them up when I QRT. Anything above toe and ankle height but lower than head height would endanger

Re: Topband: Computer noise

Hi, One solution is to use batteries. Charge the batteries while you are *NOT* using the radios and noisy power supplies won't interfere (unplug those rascals). I am using a combination of batteries and old fashioned 'iron' chargers. There is no power line crud conducted into my radios and no

Re: Topband: Anyone with experience using CAT6 as feed line.

Hi, What if you come all four twisted pairs into a single pair? I can't try this on my postage stamp lot because no reasonable beverage will fit. 73, Bill KU8H On 5/17/20 4:19 PM, Mikek wrote:  Did a first test on a BOG, I noted it didn't have a f/b ratio.  Then I noted I connected the

Re: Topband: May i ask you a favor?

I read my copy and then thought it for most of two seconds before deleting it :) 73, Bill KU8H -- bark less - wag more On 6/1/20 5:51 PM, fmoeves wrote: I got one of these to. I'll just delete.. Fred KB4QZH _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topban

Re: Topband: For sale?

Hi, Tree already posted that ads are not allowed on this list. The OP apologized and promised to not do it again. Some lists do allow relevant ads. Etiquette requires us to ask first. /relurk 73, Bill KU8H bark less - wag more _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.c

Re: Topband: maybe off subject but ...

Hi, I have a couple of DOD programs I run in DOSBox. I have the linux version and those programs are tsr. I run them both at the same time in a DOSBox window. Good luck with your project. 73, Bill KU8H bark less - wag more On 8/25/20 5:01 PM, Terry Burge wrote: Hi topbander, Once upon

Re: Topband: CW Activity

Thanks Rob, I got the 'gray line' feature enabled and the whole thing captured to my "operations" bookmark folder. 73, Bill KU8H bark less - wag more On 9/7/20 6:43 AM, Rob Atkinson wrote: If you want to find out about QRN somewhere you don't have to ask on an email list. You can just go

Re: Topband: OT - LG Dryer RFI

Hi Joe, Have you tried to do anything about the dryer? Filters? I was concerned my clothes dryer and washing machine might do that but they apparently don't. My poor dear wife cannot grasp operating the touch controls for the microcontrollers in those machines. They are not LG. They are Mayta

Re: Topband: OT - LG Dryer RFI

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Re: Topband: OT - LG Dryer RFI

KU8H bark less - wag more On 11/21/20 2:24 PM, Mark - N5OT wrote: Bill, you might check with your wife.  I bet she is cleaning the dryer's filter every time she uses it which might explain why you can't find the hash. 73 - Mark N5OT On 11/21/2020 10:18 AM, Bill Cromwell wrote: Hi J

Re: Topband: OT - LG Dryer RFI

want to or not. 73, Bill KU8H bark less - wag more On 11/21/20 4:21 PM, Robert Urban wrote: Just discovered today, our new LG dryer wipes out the 160m band. Washing clothes will have to be a daytime activity here. Bob W9EWZ On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 1:42 PM Bill Cromwell <mailto:wrcromw...@g

Topband: ready for the Stew

Hi, I've been getting ready for the Stew here and I have noticed the propagation fairies at play on our top band. Let's hope they stay and play *tomorrow*. 73, Bill KU8H ___ Stew Perry Topband Distance Challenge coming on December 29th.

Re: Topband: Fw: Short Bogs

On Sun, 2012-12-30 at 20:53 -0500, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote: > The characteristics of #12 THHN and such vary all over the map. It is not > being made for use at RF. The insulation not only changes the velocity > factor, but it also adds loss. This too varies all over the map. > > Wireman has vari

Re: Topband: solarwind and 160 prop

On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 09:39 -0500, Bill Tippett wrote: ---snip--- > There are many other factors affecting 160, and probably many > we do not fully understand. ---snip--- > > 73, Bill W4ZV Hi Bill, We probably know just enough to be dangerous. I often refer to "the propagation fai

Re: Topband: 500 kHz

Hi, I'm hoping a new 600 meter allocation will give some nice "regional" rag chew QSOs. My receiver is already working and now looking at designs and schemes for transmitting a signal when the time comes. I have been receiving low powered signals from some of the experimental stations at about 100

Re: Topband: FO8AJ - TX5K

On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 23:15 -0700, James Rodenkirch wrote: > Mike: re TX5K I "saw" much of that behavior on 40 as well. In fact, > 40 was the only HF band that I operate on that I did NOT work them on > and felt like the number(s) of stations and the utterly rude behavior > contributed to tha

Re: Topband: gentlemen's band

On Sun, 2013-03-10 at 11:19 -0700, Mike Armstrong wrote: > Guys, I think the explanation for why 160 (and the dx crowd on 80, > too... not necessarily the 75 meter "throw a wire in the air rag chew > crowd) are more gentlemanly (and ladies, of course) is very simple. > It is REALLY simple to ex

Re: Topband: Spam on the Reflector!

On 06/19/2013 03:38 PM, Keith Jillings (G3OIT) wrote: ---snip-- Yahoo's mail server was hacked a couple of weeks ago - I've had spam or virus e-mails from most people I know who have a Yahoo e-mail address. I don't know if Yahoo are acknowledging the problem yet. I spent some of last wee

Re: Topband: Desktop Power Supply Brand/Noise Question

On 07/20/2013 11:55 AM, Gary Smith wrote: As nothing remains on the market long before it's replaced, my PS from two years ago has been superseded. Mine is a PC Power & Cooling Silencer 760W. Were I to get one today I would choose their 950 watt version http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?

Re: Topband: Desktop Power Supply Brand/Noise Question

On 07/21/2013 08:37 PM, Jim Brown wrote: But you're re-engineering someone else's design, without knowledge of all the issues.That's a questionable practice unless you're a circuit designer -- it's easy to open a can of worms. Few hams are qualified to do that, and I would be the last to reco

Re: Topband: Lightning QRN season?

On 07/23/2013 10:03 PM, Mike Waters wrote: I appreciate the replies and insight. Let me add some details I should have included in my original question. What I really wanted to know was, When do you think that QRN might let up a little, to the point when we might expect to have a relatively quie

Re: Topband: Symbol Rates (was [ARRL-LOTW] BoD votes LoTW initiatives)

On 07/24/2013 08:09 AM, Brian Machesney wrote: Joe, I don't understand your objection to removal of the symbol rate language. Under the existing band plan, CW is expected to co-exist with other "digital" modes of all kinds. Now, I don't like to hear even narrow-bandwidth PSK or RTTY signals whe

Re: Topband: 160 meter condx.

On 07/27/2013 12:26 PM, Bruce wrote: Found QRN was much lower, in mid-coast Maine, Saturday morning about 0330 UTC. One very weak signal on my East Beverage turned out to be a very strong stateside station on the West Beverage. Did hear Luis IV3PRK at 0333 UTC. with a good signal. Was able to w

Re: Topband: tree losses

Hi, For me the effect the trees have is purely academic. I live in the northern Michigan forests. I am surrounded and even protected by the trees. My antennas are *in* the trees. I'm sure the trees have some effect. There is nothing I can do but operate anyway. If the tree studies find that r

Re: Topband: Lightning QRN season?

On 08/13/2013 02:56 PM, James Rodenkirch wrote: Heck, got on 160 yesterday morning and called CQ -- had a nice chat with W7CB near San Luis Obispo, CAwonderful copy on both ends, he with a KW and me with 30 watts. Go figure - two guys on Top Band at the same time IN the summer!! Albe

Re: Topband: Lightning QRN season?

On 08/13/2013 04:05 PM, ZR wrote: You can always fire up on AM on 1945 Tuesdays at 830PM East Coast time. Get a chance to see how effective all those antennas weve been discussing recently really play. http://greyhairnet.org/ Carl KM1H Hi Carl, With my "postage stamp" lot my lil wire is no

Topband: Closed for the season or maybe just redecorating..

Hi, I continue to find evidence that 160 meters is NOT closed for the season. Most of the evidence is to be found way up in the phone band. I wondered if those guys were running California kilowatts or something but in some of the QSOs they mentioned their power output in the 100 watt area. I

Re: Topband: Closed for the season or maybe just redecorating..

On 08/25/2013 09:15 AM, Shoppa, Tim wrote: YW5X (IOTA activation in Venezuela) has been active on 160M CW past couple of nights with a fair number of callers. Tim N3QE Hi Tim, Maybe I should be listening more at night instead of mornings... 73, Bill

Re: Topband: Closed for the season or maybe just redecorating..

Several of you have said that you were on this morning and there was a lot of activity. I better start looking for a serious problem here. What time this morning are we talking about. I was up at morning twilight walking the dog and on the radios well before the sun was up. I'm on the western e

Re: Topband: Closed for the season or maybe just redecorating..

On 08/25/2013 12:35 PM, Bruce wrote: Working some Europeans in August 2013 about my bedtime. All on CW G3JMJ very active many mornings 0346-0352 UTC 1.825 MHZ IV3PRK often active worked 0358 UTC 1.831 MHZ SV3RF 0353 1.818 MHZ G4EIM 0414 active many mornings 1.830 MHZ I2ZFD 0400 1.830 M

Re: Topband: Anyone have a boat load of J-310s?

On 08/25/2013 06:31 PM, Andy Ikin wrote: Charlie, When I was poor man 40 years ago, I always wanted Tektronix 545B Scope, which I couldn't afford. So I built a "Chinese Copy" with discarded parts from the Calibration department of the computer company I worked for. The scope use many 6DJ8s.

Re: Topband: 160 meter activity

On 08/25/2013 07:44 PM, Bob Kupps wrote: Well I applaud your making the effort at giving an "honest" report. It seems to me that 599 is reported far too casually these days and I certainly attempt to give "honest" reports even in a (non contest) pile up. Although R reports are fairly easy - I g

Re: Topband: 160 meter activity

Hi, Tonight 11 PM eastern time - 3 AM Z - I have been scanning 1800 to 1835 kc. The way that works I should 'sweeping' and not scanning. Of course sometimes I am away from the radio but I did a station calling CQ DX. I looked at RBN and I noticed there weren't very many station heard by them.

Re: Topband: 160 meter activity

On 08/26/2013 12:26 AM, Mike Waters wrote: Bill, The stations on the RBN are automatic, and work even when unattended. They are not like the DX clusters which require a manual post. Call CQ and see. :-) 73, Mike www.w0btu.com Hi Mike, Thanks. Yes..I thought everybody

Re: Topband: Stacked verticals

On 09/06/2013 04:13 PM, Edwin Karl wrote: There are several interesting articles if you Google "Franklin Antenna" they are mechanically BIG and require feeding ingenuity (hams are known for this feature ...) but are stacked verticals, note- phase the top element to avoid cancellation. If memor

Re: Topband: More anecdotal "stories" to cause one to stop and....

On 09/09/2013 10:33 AM, James Rodenkirch wrote: ...think that there's "more to understanding" horizontal and vertical antennas on Top Band. Listening to a fella on 80 SSB this morning about his experiences with a vertical 1/4 wave and a horizontal loop on Top Band. He said he had both up and us

Re: Topband: Stacked verticals - followup

Hi Ed, The engineer at WTIC responded. That station does not have a Franklin antenna but has "series fed halfwave" during the day and switches in a second one at night, phased to change the radiation pattern. He also told me that their 'sister station', KDKA in Pittsburgh, does use a Franklin

Re: Topband: The Quest to save AM radio

On 09/10/2013 02:57 PM, Mike Armstrong wrote: Brad, *I* say GOOD, let them kill AM broadcast and give the band to US. we will put it to good use he he he he. Plus, since so many people have AM broadcast receivers, it will be like automatic advertising for Amateur Radio.. and

Re: Topband: location

Hi, I'm dealing with life on a small lot, too. I have a wire up (quarter wave on 160) that somewhat wants to work. I can load it through a matching network (aka tuner) on 80, 40, etc but it does NOT want to load on 160 meters. I can hear quite a bit but TX is woefully inadequate. I plan to ra

Re: Topband: AutoEZ

Thanks, ...for saving me the trouble of ever downloading AutoEZ. 73, Bill KU8H On 09/21/2013 11:47 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote: AutoEZ only supports exactly Microsoft Excel with the latest service pack. Period. As described on the AutoEZ site. Rick N6RK _ Topban

Re: Topband: location

On 09/21/2013 04:11 PM, DALE LONG wrote: Bill: Expect the unexpected. If you are using insulated wire, it can be broken inside the insulation...Easy to check the wire for continuity.. Be absolutely sure all connections are really clean.. If you have a 1/4 vertical that is not touching anothe

Re: Topband: Homebrew capacitors

Hi Jim, When I used it I connected the center conductor at one end and the braid at the other end. The bit that I used for the small coupling capacitance was not very long. Even the short length I used kept the output of one circuit further away from the input of the other circuit. Some ante

Topband: The Stew Perry Warmup

The station is setup on 160 meters and waiting for the Stew at 11 AM Eastern Daylight Time. My NVIS antenna is not going to be a world beater but I'll work a few..assuming we don't have an Emergency Room trip yet again today. Late last night a couple of the RBN machines heard me on 160 but none

Re: Topband: The Stew Perry Warmup

On 10/19/2013 08:18 AM, James Rodenkirch wrote: Bill: I'll be in it as a QRP entry and just can't wait for later this afternoon to roll around. With a simplistic single band rig, designed by Steve Weber, KD1JV, I won't have the needed filtering to keep the "big boys" from overloading my rcvr f

Re: Topband: FW: Steady Carrier on 80 CW

I'm in north central Michigan at Houghton Lake - EN74oh. I have no directional antennas and only modestly helpful data. The band seems quiet this morning and I have a barely audible signal (1300Z). Daylight. Last night (0300-0400Z) it was bringing my S-meter up over S5 (whatever that means) and

Re: Topband: FW: Steady Carrier on 80 CW

On 11/03/2013 08:29 AM, Charlie Cunningham wrote: Well, if it's a ham, he/she must have pretty rugged finals in that rig!!! Charlie, K4OTV Hi Charlie, The dittler was on air two or three days (IIRC). He turned it off...it didn't flame out. Some hams tune for maximum smoke and some are much

Re: Topband: FW: Steady Carrier on 80 CW

On 11/03/2013 08:49 AM, Charlie Cunningham wrote: Hi, Bill Well, if it is a ham, he must have a pretty decent antenna - being heard rather well all round NA and SA! 73, Charlie, K4OTV Oh yes! Better than mine. Nobody gets any bragging rights for having a better antenna than mine. Mine used

Re: Topband: Local noise source identification

On 11/09/2013 05:15 PM, Rick ve3mm wrote: I am looking for suggestions to help identify a local noise that I am experiencing on topband. It's characteristics are; - bandwidth approximately 15 kHz - amplitude relatively constant - centre frequency seems to vary in small steps over time, no real p

Re: Topband: Wanted - Hardline connectors

On 11/11/2013 08:36 PM, Bruce wrote: Also, critters *CAN* chew through the stuff! It'll take them longer, but those @#%!~ little critters can chew through just about anything! You need a good outdoor cat ! 73 Bruce-K1FZ www.qsl.net/k1fz/beveragenotes.html 'round here outdoor cats is coyote

Re: Topband: Coax rodent protection

On 11/13/2013 05:43 AM, W2RU - Bud Hippisley wrote: On Nov 12, 2013, at 10:23 31PM, "Dave Harmon" wrote: Steel pipe works great. I tried that, too, but I wasn't able to swing the pipe around fast enough before the squirrels ran away Bud, W2RU _ Topband Reflector Duh...

Re: Topband: Easy-to-learn 160 contest logging program?

On 12/04/2013 01:12 PM, Mike Waters wrote: Thanks for all the recommendations for N1MM, but I am just unable to install it on my shack's Linux computer. Under WINE, I get a database run-time error after I do the latest update. And there's something wrong with my Virtualbox Windows XP installation

Re: Topband: Easy-to-learn 160 contest logging program?

On 12/04/2013 02:22 PM, DL4UNY - Andre wrote: Mike, there are several linux contest loggers. TRlog has a linux version ( http://www.kkn.net/trlinux/ ). Drawbacks: * supercheckpartial doesn't work 'on the fly', you need a key shortcut * you need a X running tlf ( https://github.com/Tlf/tlf ) is

Re: Topband: Easy-to-learn 160 contest logging program?

On 12/04/2013 07:15 PM, w7...@juno.com wrote: logging program? same one i started with in 1955. paper and pencil. i went to a ball point pen for several years and found it did not help in upping my rate. this year i am going back to the rig i used to get VK flying doctors ball cap. i found out t

Topband: DX-100 adventure

Hi, I have written a few notes about my Johnson Ranger adventures. The Ranger is now laid up for some serious repair work. Meanwhile I'm looking some 160 meter events coming up and I have no transmitter for 160 that actually works. So now I have the DX-100 belly up on the bench. The VFO sound

Re: Topband: DX-100 adventure

On 12/06/2013 10:22 AM, ZR wrote: The last DX-100 I rebuilt for a customer (I use various Johnsons and other makes) had the fairly common 5R4 sockets arcing from whatever contanimation they are afflicted with. NOS replacements still wrapped up in boxes worked fine; Ive heard of Chinese socket

Re: Topband: DX-100 adventure

On 12/06/2013 12:36 PM, Carl wrote: Ive been using 3 wire cords, the proper line bypasses, and a fuse holder added in an available hole near the 5V4. The original cord and fuse holders get big prices on Fleabay. Toggle switches, key, and PTT mike jacks are also higher than expected failure

Topband: Contest and DX-100 project

I finally got enough stuff straightened around in the old DX-100 to get it cranking out RF power on 160, 80, and 40 meters. There is more to do but I hear lots of stations on top band and thought maybe I would just slip it back into the cabinet and get on the air - do the rest *later*. I turned

Re: Topband: Contest and DX-100 project

On 12/07/2013 07:50 PM, Tom W8JI wrote: 160 sure is a "target rich environment" right now. Running a DX100 in a contest is like car pooling after eating beans and eggs. Heh, At least everybody knows yer there! . 73, Bill KU8H P.S. Just taking mu time now. Getting in a big hurry coul

Re: Topband: Well, Duh... (Apology re: ARRL160)

On 12/13/2013 08:03 PM, chetmoore wrote: Hi Guy, I do not know if I was in the window. I was not looking as I too thought there was no Longer a DX window any more. 73 Chet moore N4FX Hi, There have been several discussions about "windows" (not software) right here on the list. I'm pretty

Re: Topband: getting ready for the STEW

On 12/15/2013 02:14 PM, w7...@juno.com wrote: ---snip-- mike w7dra What? You never heard of a Pullen mixer? Live contest youtube video forthcoming where the above station is shown working actual 160 meter amateur operators. Hi Mike, We know you are not pullen our leg. 73, Bill KU8H

Topband: DX-100 adventure - progress

Hi, Recently I posted about my DX-100 and an effort to get it usable in time for the Stew Perry. I have made progress and it looks like I'll have it ready to use in time and never mind about the holidays, the holiday mail overload, etc. I successfully recapped and tested the "low voltage" su

Re: Topband: DX-100 adventure - progress

On 12/20/2013 11:00 PM, Charlie Cunningham wrote: BTW, Biii - tip/suggestion - for those series-connected electrolytics you probably should put a pair of equal value resistors - one across each series capacitor, as the leakage currents will not be equal in each capacitor in each series string an

Re: Topband: Boring Report

On 12/24/2013 09:52 AM, Tree wrote: After about two years of no QSOs with Europe - the band started showing signs of life a few nights ago. Over the past three days - I have made six QSOs with Europe. Last night - some of the signals were pretty encouraging. 9A5CW was getting copied by my K3's

Re: Topband: Stew Perry Streaming Audio

On 12/28/2013 10:32 AM, Steven Raas wrote: I know I for one, have never personally RX'd on TB from my city location, or from any another location on 'efficient' antennas. ( always a compromise set up as described on my QRZ page ) I'm actually quite excited to see what it is like. It may spark my

Re: Topband: Stew Perry Streaming Audio

On 12/28/2013 01:17 PM, w7...@juno.com wrote: i am planning to do something not useful to anyone, let alone me.i plan to make a youtube video and post it on W7DRA. i have paralleled my earphones and cut down the sound with three attenuators (2 RF, 1 audio), so that i can use a hifi

Re: Topband: on the webcam issue

On 01/02/2014 02:55 AM, w7...@juno.com wrote: I have been reading with great interest the different forms of person/computer assistance one can expect to get while operating a CW contest. Not wanting to be left out of this fray and realizing freedom of speech issues are at the core of this disc

Re: Topband: on the webcam issue

On 01/02/2014 08:40 PM, w7...@juno.com wrote: I have gone to about 800 with a J38 doing a SOSB40 as ZK1DRA, it is not the sending but just getting tired in general that gets me. this STEW was awful, i was using a home made key out of a board and a piece of plexiglass and you really had t

Topband: DX-100 adventure contiunued

So.. Here is where I am with the DX-100. I have been operating it with a pair of 2E26s where the 6146s live and feeding those from the low voltage supply. When I completed the recapping of the high voltage power supply the finals immediately started giving me trouble. So I disabled the high v

Re: Topband: DX-100 adventure contiunued

On 01/08/2014 01:36 PM, Charlie Cunningham wrote: Hi, Bill I was also going to ask if you have a choke input filter -or if you could change the PS filter configuration to choke input to help a bit with the HV. Also, check your line voltage - especially at night when the load on the electric gr

Re: Topband: DX-100 adventure contiunued

On 01/08/2014 05:19 PM, Charlie Cunningham wrote: Well, here in Raleigh, I've seen it go a good bit more than 5% high at night. Still, I wonder if Bill could just put some higher voltage electrolytics in there, tune for "maximum smoke" and "let 'er rip" - and count on the key-down sag to keep the

Re: Topband: DX-100 adventure contiunued

On 01/08/2014 05:33 PM, Keith Jillings (G3OIT) wrote: In my (very distant) youth I came by a DX-100 that had been built from kit by a local, who could never get it to work. I spent a few interesting weekends studying the circuit and the construction, and then set to with a hot soldering iron

Re: Topband: DX-100 adventure contiunued

Somewhere around here I have info about adding those 'funny wires' and neutralizing the rig. It was already on my table to do that. I don't plan to use the DX-100 shorter than the 80 meter CW band but want to get to the point I can just switch it on, warm it up, and go. I'm looking at other mod

Re: Topband: One of those times

On 01/24/2014 02:14 PM, Merv Schweigert wrote: Conditions have been very poor to say the least from KH6 land especially to EU. What few contacts I have made have been from a very skewed western direction. Today was no different, path over the pole at sunrise was not open, I was sitting on 1823

Re: Topband: Short receiving verticals question

On 01/30/2014 02:42 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: > A possible answer might be here: > > http://www.legupenterprises.com/ Doesn't faze the deer around here. They come right up to the house and the fenced kennels and munch on whatever they like. That stuff may do something with the small animals

Re: Topband: Low band noise

Hi Bruce, I assume your noise is on top band (just a wild guess). I will lay on plans this weekend to drive a ways south with the R-599 on 160 meters AND an AM broadcast band receiver that allows some directive sniffing to see if the windmill farm down that way is um... 'polluting'. I haven't

Re: Topband: Yikes! Heavy snow, freezing fog and 23 degrees F in Raleigh, NC

On 02/12/2014 02:37 PM, Charlie Cunningham wrote: Yikes, HEAVY snow, freezing fog and 23 degrees F in Raleigh! It's really coming down and accumulating FAST here! Next we're supposed to get hit with sleet, freezing rain and ice - up to 1/2 inch! Hope my power stays on! I'm too crippled up and

Re: Topband: Question - optimum number of radials

On 02/14/2014 09:15 AM, Charlie Cunningham wrote: That's a lot of good information, Richard! Thanks for sharing! 73, Charlie, K4OTV The whole topic of radials as it applies to me on my small lot is "put in as many as you can". The same probably applies to others on small lots. On top band I

Re: Topband: 1810.8 carrier found.

Once upon a time they called that 'coherent' cw. I started looking into it and saw the dreadful results. I wrote it off as quite impractical away back then. It was not only terribly slow but relied on somebody else's transmitter, not even the other ham, to make the whole thing work. Like the gp

Re: Topband: QRSS mode

On 04/01/2014 09:06 PM, Radio KH6O wrote: I know that the 600 Meter Research Group is utilizing QRSS for their experiments; that was the first I'd ever heard of the mode. Note that the 600 meter band was the former MF maritime CW band, with 500 kHz being the international CW calling and distress

Re: Topband: Rig Comparisons

Hi Bill, Well your choice of SDR is a later iteration. I am playing with the older iteration that functions similar to a direct conversion receiver with the 4X local oscillator and a quadrature detector ahead of the SDR software on the computer. If we are not to call that SDR as it has been t

Re: Topband: Outdoor rope suggestions

One place to look is marine supply stores. Sailors don't like hardware that gnaws on the lines. 73, Bill KU8H On 09/02/2014 03:14 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote: Can anyone recommend some first grade pulleys? I am looking for something bigger than what they have at hardware stores, 3

Re: Topband: 160M loading coil mounting/orientation

The ones I have seen in mobile installations have the (rather large) coil mounted at the bottom of the vertical element with the vertical element rising up through the coil. So it's a coaxial arrangement with the coil outside and the vertical element inside. It sure seemed to work in that locat

Re: Topband: The Stew

Hi, My 160 meter transmitters are down for TLC. I am the primary caregiver for my ailing XYL and time for tearing into those is scarce. I have been playing with some mag loops and I took unfair advantage of the Stew to help evaluate the four foot mag loop (the 18 inch one starts sagging badly

Re: Topband: "Thinking out loud"

Hi, I wonder if you could cover the whole band or just the part that interest *you*. I have a radio now that uses an xtal filter with about a 7 kHz bandwidth on the 20 meter band. Probably those filters can be made wider with perhaps less filtering action - tradeoffs ya know. The idea isn't n

Re: Topband: greyline prop forecast

Hi Carl, It would be nice to have some hard numbers but they are subject sometimes to misinterpretation. I would have liked to see some hard data about this too and not just for 160 meters. It seems like that grey line involves some sort of magic but just when we think we have it figured out

Re: Topband: greyline prop forecast

Hi, I sometimes look at the forecasts and space weather info but that is more often "after action" done in the chair. If we look at that first it gives a place to start. But I agree the final result comes from the chair time. 73, Bill KU8H On 02/17/2017 10:44 AM, donov...@starpower.net wr

Re: Topband: 160 in daylight

Hi Peter, The 'why not' only applies to the hams who don't want to chat with their 'neighbors' or anybody on the same continent. propagation does play into it and if you are a "DX only" ham 160 is much better at the greyline or at night. There is nothing wrong with being a DX only ham. But for

Topband: glass power line insulators for beverage antennas?

Hi, I went to an auction today and had an opportunity to buy a box of glass powerline insulators - cheap. I only bought them thinking about hams who use them for beverages and most of them I know about would be on top band. So here I am. Does anybody need these? 73, Bill KU8H -- bark less

Re: Topband: glass power line insulators for beverage antennas?

:27 PM, Bill Cromwell wrote: Hi, I went to an auction today and had an opportunity to buy a box of glass powerline insulators - cheap. I only bought them thinking about hams who use them for beverages and most of them I know about would be on top band. So here I am. Does anybody need these? 73

Re: Topband: old telephone line insulators

I witnessed the collectors at the auction. There were three other boxes of those scattered through the auction site. The collectors bid them up to astronomical prices. These were overlooked and the collectors were napping when they came up :) They are at the tops of electric utility poles on th

Re: Topband: FT8 - the end of 160m old school DXing? (long)

Heh, I have found myself thinking more and more in recent years of just dropping ham radio. Those psychologists may have oversimplified things a little but there is plenty of meat on those bones. The radio hook was set for me when my father and I were cruising the bands on one of those big ol

Re: Topband: 160m Vertical matching Help

On 11/02/2017 11:25 PM, Wes Stewart wrote: Well, yes, the transmitter is looking into the transmission line and then the antenna load, so they are different. To be fair you need to place the analyzer at the input (TX) end of the line. Now the TX and the analyzer see the same thing. But this

Re: Topband: FT8 qrm

Hi, Well...we could look at who was on first from the CW op's point of view just as easily. It just depends on who's ox is being gored. As for not listening longer than a few seconds after QRL that is just reasonable. Some of us (me for example) listen around for five or ten minutes *before*

Re: Topband: FT8 qrm

Hi Ed, Being a gentleman isn't not about putting one's own interests ahead of everybody else, either. 73, Bill KU8H On 11/29/2017 11:47 AM, Ed Sawyer wrote: I'm sorry but I don't buy the argument that the way to be a "gentleman" is to accept everyone else's interests above your own. A "ge

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