Re: Topband: VE6WZ loud as local today
Thanks Jim! I appreciate your compliment. I have a long way to go to catch up to you! Indeed I find building things to be a very big part of the hobby. Perhaps equal to, or even greater than operating. There are still many things we can home brew and experiment with in this hobby. Writing technical papers, giving power-point presentations and making proposals was a big part of my “prior life” as an Oil and Gas Exploration Geologist (actually I’m a scientist, not an Engineer) and I really dont want to do that anymore! For myself, picking up my iPhone and yakking about something is pretty easy, and much easier than writing a paper. I hope others find some of my ideas and methods on YouTube helpful. Steve, ve6wz > On Sep 15, 2021, at 2:50 AM, Jim Brown wrote: > > On 9/14/2021 9:14 PM, Andree DL8LAS via Topband wrote: >> Nice signal from Steve VE6WZ todaybut not much activity from NA > > Steve has built himself a magnificent super-station on property that he > carefully selected on a knoll north of Calgary, where he lives. He's done a > lot to document it, with links on his qrz.com page. It's a great example of > classic engineering -- design to solve specific problems/needs. He's in the > middle of nowhere with excellent RX antennas and custom-built TX antennas. > It's a whole lot of classic stuff done right. > > Start with this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upyHWBUAdk4 > Then this paper. > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eVklkZtlJW93JIJ9oDqbCyl-Jkik6YEX/view > And this, about his 160M TX antenna. > https://youtu.be/VXDTEj0xDJU > > Bottom line -- Steve is loud because he's a great engineer and has built a > great station in the middle of nowhere where he can hear! My hat is off to > him! > > 73, Jim K9YC > > _ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: VE6WZ loud as local today
On 9/14/2021 9:14 PM, Andree DL8LAS via Topband wrote: Nice signal from Steve VE6WZ todaybut not much activity from NA Steve has built himself a magnificent super-station on property that he carefully selected on a knoll north of Calgary, where he lives. He's done a lot to document it, with links on his qrz.com page. It's a great example of classic engineering -- design to solve specific problems/needs. He's in the middle of nowhere with excellent RX antennas and custom-built TX antennas. It's a whole lot of classic stuff done right. Start with this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upyHWBUAdk4 Then this paper. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eVklkZtlJW93JIJ9oDqbCyl-Jkik6YEX/view And this, about his 160M TX antenna. https://youtu.be/VXDTEj0xDJU Bottom line -- Steve is loud because he's a great engineer and has built a great station in the middle of nowhere where he can hear! My hat is off to him! 73, Jim K9YC _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: VE6WZ loud as local today
Tonight 6 EU logged. It was nice work Len SM7BIC for our first QSO this season. Groan SM6DHF called in and both OZ7YY and OK1CF peaked up nicely later in the evening. F5IN peaked up enough for a QSO, but Roger G3YRO couldn’t hear me tonight. Indeed Andy DL8LAS really came up to a solid and steady 599 for about 15 minutes during his CQs. The band has been open to EU in VE6 every night since Sept 11. 73, de Steve, ve6wz Sent from my iPad > On Sep 14, 2021, at 10:17 PM, Andree DL8LAS via Topband > wrote: > > Nice signal from Steve VE6WZ todaybut not much activity from NA.. > https://youtu.be/T-TVfMUeu68 > > www.dl8las.com > _ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Re: Topband: VE6WZ loud as local today
OK1CF was coming in pretty good here - but could not hear me. First EU heard for me this season. Tree N6TR/7 On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 9:14 PM Andree DL8LAS via Topband < topband@contesting.com> wrote: > Nice signal from Steve VE6WZ todaybut not much activity from NA.. > https://youtu.be/T-TVfMUeu68 > > www.dl8las.com > _ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Topband: VE6WZ loud as local today
Nice signal from Steve VE6WZ todaybut not much activity from NA.. https://youtu.be/T-TVfMUeu68 www.dl8las.com _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
