Re: Topband: July Stew Perry Please!!!!

2012-03-17 Thread W5JR - Mike
I like the Stew, however, it typically falls at a time when I've traveled away from home for the holidays and don't have access to a station or am actually traveling during the Stew weekend. Bummer. This year, the timing was different enough to operate the event and condx turned out to be less

Re: Topband: July Stew Perry Please!!!!

2012-03-17 Thread Jim Brown
On 3/17/2012 6:34 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote: > Four 24 hour Stew's a year is a good deal, at the equinoxes and the > soltices. While I LOVE the concept of the Stew, it seriously lacks critical mass, even in the main event in December. As a result, I always finding myself taking frequent breaks

Re: Topband: July Stew Perry Please!!!!

2012-03-17 Thread Guy Olinger K2AV
IARU is an all-band contest, be a lot of topbanders on other bands for score. Four 24 hour Stew's a year is a good deal, at the equinoxes and the soltices. Then you can forget the practice Stew. Also get into the business that for spring, summer, fall there's only 24 hours to get logs in after

Topband: Summer Stew

2012-03-17 Thread Tree
We did have a Summer Stew last year on the weekend before the ARRL Field Day. So it shall be again this year. The updated Stew dates are now up on the web here: http://web.jzap.com/k7rat/stew.rules.txt 1. Contest period: 1500Z December 29th to 1500Z December 30th, 2012. Operate for a maximu

Re: Topband: July Stew Perry Please!!!!

2012-03-17 Thread Steve London
On 03/17/2012 07:44 AM, Herb Schoenbohm wrote: > Please no! Let the Stew be the Stew. It is the best and fairest TB > contest ever devised by mankind. I wouldn't mind if we had one every > month especially at the summer solstice, vernal and autumnal equinox > when those in the southern hemispher

Re: Topband: July Stew Perry Please!!!!

2012-03-17 Thread Herb Schoenbohm
Please no! Let the Stew be the Stew. It is the best and fairest TB contest ever devised by mankind. I wouldn't mind if we had one every month especially at the summer solstice, vernal and autumnal equinox when those in the southern hemisphere could have even more kick. Plus the IARU has tho

Re: Topband: July Stew Perry Please!!!!

2012-03-17 Thread Steve London
I'll throw out a related suggestion. Why not use the IARU HF contest as the "summertime" 160 contest ? It's 24 hours long and has excellent worldwide activity on all bands except 160 meters. 73, Steve, N2IC On 03/17/2012 05:12 AM, Doug Turnbull wrote: > Dear OMs and Yls > > A July Stew Pe

Re: Topband: Cushcraft MA-160

2012-03-17 Thread Herb Schoenbohm
Dave, If you ground the top of the wire of a quarter-wave sloper to the tower and feed the bottom of the slant wire instead (assuming a ground rod and some radials laying on the ground at the feed point) you will IMHO do much better. Some matching may be required at the feed point but it may

Re: Topband: July Stew Perry Please!!!!

2012-03-17 Thread Felipe Ceglia
I like the idea, at least I will make some DX when band is not that noisy! My eardrums say thanks! hihi 73, Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB - PR1T team member /// Rio DX Group member /// Araucaria DX Group member http://dx

Topband: July Stew Perry Please!!!!

2012-03-17 Thread Doug Turnbull
Dear OMs and Yls A July Stew Perry is an excellent idea!!!We need something to temp more onto the band during the noisy season. One tunes the band a number of times and hears nothing and so resorts to HF.A good effort in high summer for the northern latitudes might clear our ears.

Topband: YC0LOW/8

2012-03-17 Thread Jo YCØLOW
Dear fellow top banders, I've just got a text message from Yon, YB1CCF in OC-221 which explained the 160m tx antenna has been properly installed, earlier today, including the Hi-Z 4sq rx array. He and other friends had been in the uninhabited island since yesterday as advanced technical team.