Re: Topband: Inquiring minds want to know....
Hello Carl All very interesting! I still see a huge increase in distances as nightfall moves in, but all of the extremely distant stations are picked up at the upper end of the NDB allocation close to 400 kHz. During the day a good haul is Schenectady, NY to the west. For 25 watts that is a good overland distance. At night I hear maybe another 200 miles into Ontario. Once you go above 400 kHz, things change and I start hearing stations much farther away at night. IY in Iowa also with 25 watts at 417 kHz has a pretty fair signal at night and is in audible during the day. I will do some more listening in the 200 khz range to see if I can hear more distant stations during daylight. DIW in Dixon NC is on 198 kHz, but it is running QRO so that can be heard a long way off. Thanks for the information. This sure is fun. 73 Dave K1WHS On 2/8/2020 8:19 PM, Carl Luetzelschwab wrote: What the heck happened that I could hear a long wave signal over 2000 miles away at mid day? For a given electron density profile, the amount of refraction incurred by an electromagnetic wave is inversely proportional to the square of the frequency. The result of that is the lower the frequency, the less high the wave gets into the ionosphere. LF hardly reaches the absorbing region (the D region during the day), and thus LF suffers minimal ionospheric absorption. The wave refracts between the lower ionosphere and Earth - also known as the Earth-ionosphere wave guide. NO3M has heard VK4YB on 2200m (137 KHz) many times. I'm sure there are other examples like that out there. Carl K9LA _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: transmit antenna capacitors
Send me a list of your transmitting capacitor needs needs. Ten bucks each shipped to your door. 73 Frank W3LPL - Original Message - From: "FZ Bruce" To: "topband@contesting.com" Sent: Saturday, February 8, 2020 8:09:10 PM Subject: Topband: transmit antenna capacitors Surplus Sales of Nebraska has a large supply of Molded Broadcast transmitting capacitors for sale. https://www.surplussales.com/Capacitors/Trans_Coup_Caps/MicaTransB-E-CCap.html [1] 73 Bruce-K1FZ Links: -- [1] https://www.surplussales.com/Capacitors/Trans_Coup_Caps/MicaTransB-E-CCap.html _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Inquiring minds want to know....
*Extremely* interesting!! :-) On Sat, Feb 8, 2020, 2:52 PM Mike Smith VE9AA wrote: > Sorry, I don't know the answer(s) to your questions but did want to say, > thanks for writing this. I find it very interesting reading. > 73, Mike W0BTU > _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Inquiring minds want to know....
First thing, 160 meter is NOT the Topband and hasn't been for a number of years. 2200m is the Topband, with 630m in second place, and 160m a distant third. There are two areas of interest in the MF/LF/VLF world. Amateur and non-amateur/SWL. If you are primarily interested in just listening and logging many interesting signals, you can spend a lifetime tuning below 500kHz and never hear it all. Just a few from the high end first approximate frequencies): Navtex 512kHz NDB 200-500 kHz DGPS 300 Khz LW Broadcast 200kHz +/- WWVL and similar 60 kHz Military data 10-35 kHz Geophysical and atmospheric noises various VLF down to a couple kHz or less If you are interested in amateur operations including experimental transmissions there are a number of places to look. 630 meter band: lots of amateur activity here. Some CW but mostly JT9 digital. Several hundred station currently active worldwide. Lots of WSPR activity with 630m reports exceeding those from 160m EVERY night! From my rather poor Inland Northwest QTH, I have worked 120 unique calls in 39 states and 7 DXCC so far. The power limit is 5 watts EIRP/ 500 watts transmit power max. With a typical backyard antenna system running about -15 to -20 dBi it might take the whole 500 watts to get 5 watts radiated. Not a band for the timid... 2200m band: lots less activity due to severe physical limitations. 1 watt EIRP/1500 watts transmitter power max. With typical backyard antennas running around -30 dBi, you need a KW to get 1 watt radiated. Probably less than one hundred active transmit capable stations worldwide but many times more than that listening. Most work is WSPR beacons but also JT9 QSO's. I have 11 stations worked in 8 states and 3 DXCC so far. There is a no license low power band at 187 kHz approximately. I don't know much about this one except there are a number of east coast USA beacons running that I have never been able to hear. There are several experimental stations that occasionally transmit WSPR beacons on approximately 75 kHz. I have heard a couple of them out to 1000+ miles. There are a few really motivated experimenters who transmit beacons on about 8 kHz. I've never been able to hear any of them but I believe signals have been copied across the Atlantic in the past. If you want to know more about the 630 meter band look at : https://njdtechnologies.net/ John provides a 630 meter daily report of activity plus lots of other info to get you started. 73, Larry - W7IUV _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Inquiring minds want to know....
Hi Dave, Sorry, I don't know the answer(s) to your questions but did want to say, thanks for writing this. I find it very interesting reading. I know VY2ZM conducted some experiments around noon on 160m (and lower???) some years back. Wish I could find it again, but he was able to make it into EU (as I recall) using some pretty cool methods and freq's. I know occasionally I'll be testing 160m or 80m antennas here in the daytime and get spotted by some skimmers way out west. I do recall that in 1997 we were at CY9AA north Island with a balloon supported 160m vertical and a gigantic (pre-existing) ground screen and we could hear EU not long after noontime..and work them a short time later. (some were posting "slim slim" on the packetcluster we found out.) Again, not really like your observations, so don't let my comments distract. I look forward to others weighing in with VLF observations. Below 160m is one place I have not yet explored, but I know there's a handful of folks playing with those freqs. (VE1ZZ(sk), VO1HP, VE7SL and no doubt many others worldwide. Appreciate you posting this. Makes me wanna go tune around down there and see what I'm missing. Mike VE9AA Mike, Coreen & Corey Keswick Ridge, NB _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Inquiring minds want to know....
David, just in case you may want to start into an additional radio hobby, there are a lot of us who chase the NDB stations. I have been amazed at the distance covered by many of these beaconsa goodly number of which run only 25 watts and a few even less. So far I have logged 439 unique beacons using a PA0RDT mini-whip antennaan amazing device. I have attached a link for info on the group and also one that can be used for looking up North American/South American beaconswhich gives a lot of info on them such as off-sets, locations, power, etc. 73 de Bill K4JYS http://www.ndblist.info/ https://www.classaxe.com/dx/ndb/rna/ - Original Message - From: "David Olean" To: "topband" Sent: Saturday, February 8, 2020 2:50:53 PM Subject: Topband: Inquiring minds want to know Hello Topband propagation experts, I have been messing around with listening to low frequency navigation beacons and wondering how reception on 200 kHz relates to 160 meters. Not sure there is a correlation. I have been listening on my 1942 Bendix aircraft radio, an MN-26C, which covers 150 to 1500 KHz. Well it is amazing how many NDBs I can identify. I found about 85 beacons in two nights of haphazard listening. I also located a bunch of them that I could hear during the daytime. The daytime stations are close by for the most part, although there is a 25 watt beacon in Yarmouth, NS that comes in great over a distance of several hundred miles. So I was tuning around at 1 PM local time and picked up a fairly weak station that signed "OJ" on 239 kHz. I looked it up and it is located in northern Alberta and runs 500 watts. I was amazed that I could hear it over a 2000 mile path at almost mid day. I noted that it peaked up best on my 330 degree beverage wire. It was also audible on my 290 degree beverage wire, but noticeably weaker. I checked again at 4 PM to see if "OJ" was getting any louder. I could not detect it. (?) I checked again as the night progressed and never heard it again. I began to doubt what I had heard. There is another beacon signing "OW" about 3 kHz below 239 kHz, and located in Ottawa, ON. I had already located it and logged it. I wondered if I had miscopied them and got confused, but I cannot get OW to peak up at 330 degrees. I do hear OW during the day, but it is 3 kHz below, and peaks west or NW, but is not audible at 330 degrees where OJ was peaking. I also am pretty sure I was copying OJ as I listened to it for about ten minutes and there was no QRM from other stations. If you have ever listened to these beacons, you will note that mistakes are very possible as several beacons can be on the same frequency at night and tend to make copy problematic as the MCW signals combine to produce strange Morse characters. At 1 PM, that was not happening. OJ was in the clear and easy copy. Weak, but easy copy. All this reminds me of the discussions about Marconi's first transatlantic transmissions and how many people think it was a fluke or maybe "smoke and mirrors". What the heck happened that I could hear a long wave signal over 2000 miles away at mid day? 73 Dave K1WHS ps. If anyone is interested in my Beacon list, I have a WORD document with all these NDBs listed that are audible here in Maine. Typical DX at night are 25 watt stations in Iowa and Georgia. I also hear a big NDB station in the Caymans. With so many beacons sharing frequencies, it is hard to copy stations beyond about 1000 miles due to QRM. Sometimes QSB can be your friend and you can copy other stations when a closer one fades out. _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Inquiring minds want to know....
> What the heck happened that I could hear a > long wave signal over 2000 miles away at mid day? For a given electron density profile, the amount of refraction incurred by an electromagnetic wave is inversely proportional to the square of the frequency. The result of that is the lower the frequency, the less high the wave gets into the ionosphere. LF hardly reaches the absorbing region (the D region during the day), and thus LF suffers minimal ionospheric absorption. The wave refracts between the lower ionosphere and Earth - also known as the Earth-ionosphere wave guide. NO3M has heard VK4YB on 2200m (137 KHz) many times. I'm sure there are other examples like that out there. Carl K9LA _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Inquiring minds want to know....
In some ways it is much better. Remember *200 Meters and Down*? I have two ELF receivers that feed the worldwide blitzortung.org network and lightningmaps.org. It continues to amaze me how far that wideband QRN propagates, even during daylight hours. Most of those strokes' energy peaks around 20 kHz, but some extends considerably higher. The receiver bandwidth goes up to over 200 kHz. It's no wonder that so many hams are now on those VLF and ELF bands. 73, Mike W0BTU On Sat, Feb 8, 2020, 1:51 PM David Olean wrote: > > I have been messing around with listening to low frequency navigation > beacons and wondering how reception on 200 kHz relates to 160 meters. > Not sure there is a correlation. > _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: transmit antenna capacitors
Surplus Sales of Nebraska has a large supply of Molded Broadcast transmitting capacitors for sale. https://www.surplussales.com/Capacitors/Trans_Coup_Caps/MicaTransB-E-CCap.html [1] 73 Bruce-K1FZ Links: -- [1] https://www.surplussales.com/Capacitors/Trans_Coup_Caps/MicaTransB-E-CCap.html _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: Inquiring minds want to know....
Hello Topband propagation experts, I have been messing around with listening to low frequency navigation beacons and wondering how reception on 200 kHz relates to 160 meters. Not sure there is a correlation. I have been listening on my 1942 Bendix aircraft radio, an MN-26C, which covers 150 to 1500 KHz. Well it is amazing how many NDBs I can identify. I found about 85 beacons in two nights of haphazard listening. I also located a bunch of them that I could hear during the daytime. The daytime stations are close by for the most part, although there is a 25 watt beacon in Yarmouth, NS that comes in great over a distance of several hundred miles. So I was tuning around at 1 PM local time and picked up a fairly weak station that signed "OJ" on 239 kHz. I looked it up and it is located in northern Alberta and runs 500 watts. I was amazed that I could hear it over a 2000 mile path at almost mid day. I noted that it peaked up best on my 330 degree beverage wire. It was also audible on my 290 degree beverage wire, but noticeably weaker. I checked again at 4 PM to see if "OJ" was getting any louder. I could not detect it. (?) I checked again as the night progressed and never heard it again. I began to doubt what I had heard. There is another beacon signing "OW" about 3 kHz below 239 kHz, and located in Ottawa, ON. I had already located it and logged it. I wondered if I had miscopied them and got confused, but I cannot get OW to peak up at 330 degrees. I do hear OW during the day, but it is 3 kHz below, and peaks west or NW, but is not audible at 330 degrees where OJ was peaking. I also am pretty sure I was copying OJ as I listened to it for about ten minutes and there was no QRM from other stations. If you have ever listened to these beacons, you will note that mistakes are very possible as several beacons can be on the same frequency at night and tend to make copy problematic as the MCW signals combine to produce strange Morse characters. At 1 PM, that was not happening. OJ was in the clear and easy copy. Weak, but easy copy. All this reminds me of the discussions about Marconi's first transatlantic transmissions and how many people think it was a fluke or maybe "smoke and mirrors". What the heck happened that I could hear a long wave signal over 2000 miles away at mid day? 73 Dave K1WHS ps. If anyone is interested in my Beacon list, I have a WORD document with all these NDBs listed that are audible here in Maine. Typical DX at night are 25 watt stations in Iowa and Georgia. I also hear a big NDB station in the Caymans. With so many beacons sharing frequencies, it is hard to copy stations beyond about 1000 miles due to QRM. Sometimes QSB can be your friend and you can copy other stations when a closer one fades out. _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Remote operation
LDE - On Feb 8, 2020, at 12:51 AM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote: | His email must have been routed remotely as it was written in the fall. | Strange. | On 2/7/2020 10:29 PM, daraym...@iowatelecom.net wrote: | > Steve. . . "beating this dead horse." You're the one that brought it | > up. . .hi. Also, if you waiting in anticipation of the "approaching | > low band season" I regret to inform you it's half over. 73. . | > . Dave, W0FLS | > -Original Message- From: STEVE DANIEL | > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2020 9:31 PM | > To: topband@contesting.com | > Subject: Topband: Remote operation | > Let's see. It has been at least five years since RHR's "remote | Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: .TX Mica Caps
Many of these old transmitting mica capacitors have reliability issues. Their foil-mica technology is very obsolete and their molded enclosures often leak moisture and contaminants. On the good side, unlike many other capacitor designs they're capable of the handling high currents and high voltages found in many antenna tuners. Its wise to use more modern capacitors if you can. 73 Frank W3LPL - Original Message - From: "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" To: "HP" , topband@contesting.com Sent: Saturday, February 8, 2020 6:19:21 PM Subject: Re: Topband: .TX Mica Caps On 2/7/2020 6:15 PM, HP wrote: > FWIW -- I was looking at All Electronics website last night - looks like they > have > unearthed a bunch of WW2 TX micas -at what looks like reasonable prices > > Reduced Price > 0.0004 UF, 5000 VOLTS MICA CAPACITOR > CAT# MC-401V5K > Sangamo Type F2L Mica Capacitor. 2.32" x 1.25" x 1.73" high. Screw/nut > terminals. Mounting holes on 2.63" centers > [ > https://www.allelectronics.com/item/mc-401v5k/0.0004-uf-5000-volts-mica-capacitor/1.html > | ] > > $3.50 each > > Hank K7HP An alternative to these legacy Mica's are: Cornell Dubilier (CDE): MC (100 to 1,000V) (1 to 2,000 pF) MCM (300 to 1,000V) (1 to 1,500 pf) MCN (500V) (33 to 470 pF) MIN (300V) (1 to 350 pF.) All are surface mount Available from Mouser and Digi-Key I have had good results with these, and they are MUCH smaller than the legacy ones. Rick N6RK _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: .TX Mica Caps
On 2/7/2020 6:15 PM, HP wrote: FWIW -- I was looking at All Electronics website last night - looks like they have unearthed a bunch of WW2 TX micas -at what looks like reasonable prices Reduced Price 0.0004 UF, 5000 VOLTS MICA CAPACITOR CAT# MC-401V5K Sangamo Type F2L Mica Capacitor. 2.32" x 1.25" x 1.73" high. Screw/nut terminals. Mounting holes on 2.63" centers [ https://www.allelectronics.com/item/mc-401v5k/0.0004-uf-5000-volts-mica-capacitor/1.html | ] $3.50 each Hank K7HP An alternative to these legacy Mica's are: Cornell Dubilier (CDE): MC (100 to 1,000V) (1 to 2,000 pF) MCM (300 to 1,000V) (1 to 1,500 pf) MCN (500V) (33 to 470 pF) MIN (300V) (1 to 350 pF.) All are surface mount Available from Mouser and Digi-Key I have had good results with these, and they are MUCH smaller than the legacy ones. Rick N6RK _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: .TX Mica Caps
Guys - please take the W6 discussion of the Topband list. Thanks. Tree On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 9:07 AM Chortek, Robert L. < robert.chor...@berliner.com> wrote: > I live in California (and have for my entire life). Practiced law for > nearly 35 years. > > The California legislature is filled with decent, and well intentioned > public servants who are also naive, lack perspective and business sense, > and don’t have a clue about the big picture or unintended consequences. > > This Proposition 65 issue is a perfect example. The warnings now apply to > so many things and are seen so often they lose their impact and are largely > ignored. People don’t pay attention because they seem to be everywhere and > are on everything. > > Too much of a good thing ceases to be a good thing or even becomes a bad > thing. > > IMHO. > > 73 es DX, > > Bob AA6VB > Robert L. Chortek > > > On Feb 8, 2020, at 8:47 AM, Mark Schoonover wrote: > > > > [External Email] > > > > Hey I'm in 6 land the fruits & nuts are in the legislature too! Don't > cheat > > CA! :) > > > > 73! Mark KA6WKE > > > > Website: https://www.ka6wke.net > > > >> On Sat, Feb 8, 2020, 05:34 Wes wrote: > >> > >> They provide a link to this nonsense: > >> > >> https://www.allelectronics.com/cms/ca_warning/ca-warning/1.html > >> > >> All you need to know is that it's from the California legislature, which > >> is just > >> like granola. (Take out the fruits and nuts and you're left with the > >> flakes.) > >> > >> Wes N7WS > >> > >> > >>> On 2/7/2020 8:34 PM, Roy Morgan wrote: > >>> I looked at the picture and description. Can anyone guess how that > >> thing "could cause cancer or reproductive harm" ?? > >>> > >>> Roy Morgan > >>> K1LKY Western Mass > >>> > On Feb 7, 2020, at 9:16 PM, HP wrote: > > FWIW -- I was looking at All Electronics website last night > > Reduced Price > 0.0004 UF, 5000 VOLTS MICA CAPACITOR > >>> _ > >>> Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > >> Reflector > >> > >> > >> _ > >> Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > >> Reflector > >> > > _ > > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: .TX Mica Caps
I live in California (and have for my entire life). Practiced law for nearly 35 years. The California legislature is filled with decent, and well intentioned public servants who are also naive, lack perspective and business sense, and don’t have a clue about the big picture or unintended consequences. This Proposition 65 issue is a perfect example. The warnings now apply to so many things and are seen so often they lose their impact and are largely ignored. People don’t pay attention because they seem to be everywhere and are on everything. Too much of a good thing ceases to be a good thing or even becomes a bad thing. IMHO. 73 es DX, Bob AA6VB Robert L. Chortek > On Feb 8, 2020, at 8:47 AM, Mark Schoonover wrote: > > [External Email] > > Hey I'm in 6 land the fruits & nuts are in the legislature too! Don't cheat > CA! :) > > 73! Mark KA6WKE > > Website: https://www.ka6wke.net > >> On Sat, Feb 8, 2020, 05:34 Wes wrote: >> >> They provide a link to this nonsense: >> >> https://www.allelectronics.com/cms/ca_warning/ca-warning/1.html >> >> All you need to know is that it's from the California legislature, which >> is just >> like granola. (Take out the fruits and nuts and you're left with the >> flakes.) >> >> Wes N7WS >> >> >>> On 2/7/2020 8:34 PM, Roy Morgan wrote: >>> I looked at the picture and description. Can anyone guess how that >> thing "could cause cancer or reproductive harm" ?? >>> >>> Roy Morgan >>> K1LKY Western Mass >>> On Feb 7, 2020, at 9:16 PM, HP wrote: FWIW -- I was looking at All Electronics website last night Reduced Price 0.0004 UF, 5000 VOLTS MICA CAPACITOR >>> _ >>> Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband >> Reflector >> >> >> _ >> Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband >> Reflector >> > _ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: .TX Mica Caps
Hey I'm in 6 land the fruits & nuts are in the legislature too! Don't cheat CA! :) 73! Mark KA6WKE Website: https://www.ka6wke.net On Sat, Feb 8, 2020, 05:34 Wes wrote: > They provide a link to this nonsense: > > https://www.allelectronics.com/cms/ca_warning/ca-warning/1.html > > All you need to know is that it's from the California legislature, which > is just > like granola. (Take out the fruits and nuts and you're left with the > flakes.) > > Wes N7WS > > > On 2/7/2020 8:34 PM, Roy Morgan wrote: > > I looked at the picture and description. Can anyone guess how that > thing "could cause cancer or reproductive harm" ?? > > > > Roy Morgan > > K1LKY Western Mass > > > >> On Feb 7, 2020, at 9:16 PM, HP wrote: > >> > >> FWIW -- I was looking at All Electronics website last night > >> > >> Reduced Price > >> 0.0004 UF, 5000 VOLTS MICA CAPACITOR > > _ > > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > > > _ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: . Re: PTFE wire supplier
We lost Mendelson's in Dayton Ohio. Great place for all sorts of stuff. I spent lots of time browsing through the isles of everything you can think of. There's no Radio Shack anymore all of the radio and TV shops are closed. Only online stores and I like to have my hands on something before I be..but not anymore. Thanks for all tips everyone. 73 Fred KB4QZH Original message From: Jim Brown Date: 2/7/20 6:56 PM (GMT-05:00) To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: . Re: PTFE wire supplier On 2/7/2020 3:42 PM, David Olean wrote:> I sure miss those days!We lost an important surplus house here in Si Valley last year. On our last visit (their last days) we scored a long remainder of #12 stranded silver coated copper PTFE. Those in Chicago disappeared in the '70s.73, Jim K9YC_Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: .TX Mica Caps
They provide a link to this nonsense: https://www.allelectronics.com/cms/ca_warning/ca-warning/1.html All you need to know is that it's from the California legislature, which is just like granola. (Take out the fruits and nuts and you're left with the flakes.) Wes N7WS On 2/7/2020 8:34 PM, Roy Morgan wrote: I looked at the picture and description. Can anyone guess how that thing "could cause cancer or reproductive harm" ?? Roy Morgan K1LKY Western Mass On Feb 7, 2020, at 9:16 PM, HP wrote: FWIW -- I was looking at All Electronics website last night Reduced Price 0.0004 UF, 5000 VOLTS MICA CAPACITOR _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: Remote operation
Good morning. I wrote this in October 2019 in response to a thread on this site. A ghost in the machine, perhaps! 73, Steve > On February 7, 2020 at 11:29 PM daraym...@iowatelecom.net wrote: > > > Steve. . . "beating this dead horse." You're the one that brought it up. . > .hi. Also, if you waiting in anticipation of the "approaching low band > season" I regret to inform you it's half over. 73. . . Dave, W0FLS > > -Original Message- > From: STEVE DANIEL > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2020 9:31 PM > To: topband@contesting.com > Subject: Topband: Remote operation > > > Let's see. It has been at least five years since RHR's "remote operation for > the masses" hit the air waves. After several years of hand-wringing, teeth > gnashing and proclamations that the amateur world as we know it is ending > the ARRL made it clear that remote operations, so long as they adhere to the > rules of the licensing authority in the country of operation, count for ARRL > awards. > Can we not at least assume that before ARRL staff made that recommendation > to the Board that they reviewed the pertinent FCC rules and determined that > such action by the League would not be contrary to those rules? > It's a lovely fall day here in Tennessee. I am taking advantage of it to > check guy wires, coax connections and my eight beverages to make sure that I > am ready for the approaching low band season. Doesn't that sound like more > fun than beating this dead horse? > 73, Steve NN4T > _ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector > > _ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
