Topband: 19th Stew Perry Top Band DX Challange

2014-11-26 Thread Lew Sayre
Greetings to the Trustees of Top Band, the Cream of Contesting and the Deserving of DX, The Boring Amateur Radio Club is pleased to announce the 19th edition of The Stew Perry Top Band DX Challenge. This year it will be from 1500Z Dec. 27, 2014 to 1500Z Dec. 28, 2014. This is a CW (morse code

Re: Topband: Haiti on 160M this weekend?, HC2RMT/8, 9K2HN

2014-11-26 Thread Eugene Popov /RA0FF/
They today have made beverages. I hope RX will be better. Today at 10-11UTC lsn 5 or 7/8 HC2RMT/8 QSOs with JA's, but I have not heard of Gallapagos/ News - All HC2/8 logs uploaded to Clublog. For me the big question why Yuri (RM0F-HC2RMT/8) no uses split. I wrote him a message about this. (see

Re: Topband: Signal source

2014-11-26 Thread Tom W8JI
There are hundreds of devices in that range that are complete oscillators. http://www.mouser.com/Passive-Components/Frequency-Control-Timing-Devices/Oscillators/_/N-7jdfi?P=1z0who4Z1z0wmtcZ1z0wntsZ1z0j6vwZ1z0z7l5Z1z0z6sr&Keyword=1.843&FS=True - Original Message - From: "Tree" To: "Ge

Re: Topband: Haiti on 160M this weekend?, HC2RMT/8, 9K2HN

2014-11-26 Thread Jorge Diez - CX6VM
Hello >From El Mangrullo contest station will be two operations CX6VM on 160 mts CW5W on 80 mts Will be on the hour on 160 mts, around 1811-1830 73, Jorge CX6VM/CW5W -Mensaje original- De: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] En nombre de N2TK, Tony Enviado el: miércoles, 26

Re: Topband: Haiti on 160M this weekend?, HC2RMT/8, 9K2HN

2014-11-26 Thread N2TK, Tony
During the contest try 160M on the hour starting about 0200. Many stations go there looking for Q's and mults for 10-15 minutes. And on Saturday night call CQ on topband on the hour. Besides mults they will be looking for Q's too. 73 N2TK, Tony -Original Message- From: Topband [mailto:topb

Re: Topband: Haiti on 160M this weekend?, HC2RMT/8, 9K2HN

2014-11-26 Thread Jim Brown
On Wed,11/26/2014 6:52 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote: I note a lot of Haiti activations for CQ WW. Are any known to be active on 160M? My educated guess is that these contest expeditions will NOT be spending much (if any) time on 160M because the QSO rate would be MUCH slower than on the higher bands.

Topband: 160M this weekend?, HC2RMT/8, 9K2HN

2014-11-26 Thread k1fz
HCRMT/8 came back to a 'close to New England' station that was sending his call way too many times and he never caught it. Need to "come up for air" and listen. Yes, split frequency operation would have been much better . 73 Bruce-K1FZ  .     I think HC2RMT/8 and HC2ANT/8 are

Re: Topband: Haiti on 160M this weekend?, HC2RMT/8, 9K2HN

2014-11-26 Thread Saulius Zalnerauskas
Same as here in Sicily. I havent beverages and heard a lot of takers, but cant read calls corectly. Qrn and Qsbso prefer to start tomorrow with N.America and possible this evening to Japan. Sam IT9/LY5W BTW - I worked over 200 N.A stations in all zones 3.4.5 but hard work On Nov 26, 2014 5:14

Re: Topband: Haiti on 160M this weekend?, HC2RMT/8, 9K2HN

2014-11-26 Thread MU 4CX250B
I think HC2RMT/8 and HC2ANT/8 are having serious QRN problems. They each had solid 579 signals in NM last night, but were only working one station every five minutes or so. They seem to be skilled CW ops, but were working simplex, which sometimes made copy through the pileup difficult. Jim Sent f

Topband: Haiti on 160M this weekend?, HC2RMT/8, 9K2HN

2014-11-26 Thread Tim Shoppa
I note a lot of Haiti activations for CQ WW. Are any known to be active on 160M? Also looking forward to V26K on 160M as it would be a new one for me on 160M. Last night HC2RMT/8 had a wonderfully loud signal on 80M and 160M but may not have been hearing too well. (Or maybe that was just them pra

Topband: BOG antenna 160 meters.

2014-11-26 Thread k1fz
In the period of Nov. 23 to Nov 25 had extreme QRN from storms. (May have been those in upstate New York). Listening for the Galapagos Island stations was very tough with my above ground Beverages   Tried my 200 foot  two wire, two direction BOG and they were good easy copy.  There were

Re: Topband: Two wire beverage , some questions

2014-11-26 Thread James Rodenkirch
Here's a calculator, Martin: http://www.eeweb.com/toolbox/twisted-pair I think you'll find typical twisted pair cable, e.g., a pair inside Cat 5 cable, is around 100 ohms. 72, Jim Rodenkirch K9JWV > Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 12:23:18 +0100 > From: dm...@t-online.de > To: topband@contesting.com

Re: Topband: Two wire beverage , some questions

2014-11-26 Thread Martin
Topbanders, i read the articles on w0btu's page over and over again and found the answers to my questions are right there. Just a bit spread (and in a foreign language). There is one question that remained unanswered: What impedance can i expect from twisted wire? Can i use the formula for op