Re: Topband: 9 kHz heterodyne BCI

2014-12-29 Thread Lee K7TJR
Greetings Bob, Having BC intermod on 160 meters has been a problem for a many years. It generally occurs from 2 or more of your 9KHz spaced BC signals mixing together and coming out on their spacings on 160 Meters. Mixing is the key word here and will be the key if you find the source. Mix

Re: Topband: Possible abuse of call

2014-12-29 Thread Mike / W5JR
W0UO was on. tnx Mike > On Dec 29, 2014, at 11:23 PM, Jim Brown wrote: > >> On Mon,12/29/2014 3:00 PM, Larry - K1UO wrote: >> So if K1UO managed to work you it was not from here in FN54 > > As I recall, K0OU was active. > > 73, Jim K9YC > _ > Topband Reflector Archives - http

Re: Topband: Possible abuse of call

2014-12-29 Thread Jim Brown
On Mon,12/29/2014 3:00 PM, Larry - K1UO wrote: So if K1UO managed to work you it was not from here in FN54 As I recall, K0OU was active. 73, Jim K9YC _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband

Re: Topband: Speculating via Stew posted scores

2014-12-29 Thread Stan Stockton
Sorry, I had a huge line noise problem, about 15 over 9 with SSB filter and maybe about S7 with it narrowed down. I operated QRP in an effort to not attract as many who I would not be able to copy. For most of the contest, I had the RF gain backed off to mask it. I could copy most of the ones

Topband: Oops.

2014-12-29 Thread W7RH
Please delete my log. Wrong mail drop down. thanks, Bob -- W7RH DM35OS Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. Winston Churchill _ Topb

Topband: W7RH

2014-12-29 Thread W7RH
-- W7RH DM35OS Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. Winston Churchill _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topb

Topband: 9 kHz heterodyne BCI

2014-12-29 Thread Bob Kupps via Topband
Hi we just got QRV on 160 right before the SP and noticed AM BCI at 1800 kHz and every 9 kHZ  up from there. Since 9 kHz is the BC channel spacing here I suspect two adjacent stations are mixing. Somehow somewhere. Maybe here in my station, one of the BC stations or somewhere else? Unfortunately

Re: Topband: The Stew

2014-12-29 Thread Mike Waters
Well, I guess that's one way to hold on to a run freq when nature calls. Or when the XYL wants to go to dinner, or whatever. Maybe that ought to be grounds for disqualification. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Gary Smith wrote: > Oh yes, another vent I didn't mention...

Re: Topband: Speculating via Stew posted scores

2014-12-29 Thread Herbert Schoenbohm
Borrowing from Forrest Gump "The Stew is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna git until the your logs are processed." HNY Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ On 12/29/2014 9:07 PM, Bob Kupps via Topband wrote: LOL here's another # for your analysis - our Q/pt = 12 Maybe it just mean

Re: Topband: Speculating via Stew posted scores

2014-12-29 Thread Bob Kupps via Topband
LOL here's another # for your analysis - our Q/pt = 12 Maybe it just means there's nobody on anywhere close to you 73 Bob HS0ZIA From: James Rodenkirch To: Top Band Contesting Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 5:56 PM Subject: Topband: Speculating via Stew posted scores Is there

Topband: Possible abuse of call

2014-12-29 Thread Larry - K1UO
Hi all, It has been reported to me that my call was heard during the SP test... however, as much as I would have loved to participate, I was NOT on and currently have no 160m antenna. So if K1UO managed to work you it was not from here in FN54. unless I was just ‘calling blind’. Regards

Re: Topband: Speculating via Stew posted scores

2014-12-29 Thread Russ Tobolic via Topband
From another QRP perspective, conditions were pretty miserable from here in Michigan, "part of the mid-west sorta thang.".  I didn't hear a single Euro, KH6, or KL7.  I only heard 2 CA  guys but they couldn't pull me out and worked only 2 in FL which seemed odd.  In the past couple of years I wa

Topband: T8CW

2014-12-29 Thread Bernie McClenny, W3UR
If anyone has a way of getting a hold of T8CW can you please ask T8CW to listen for North America East Coast on 160 meters between his sunset 0853 and East Coast sunrise - 1230Z. Thanks Bernie Bernie McClenny, W3UR Editor of: The Daily DX The Weekly DX How's DX? Two we

Re: Topband: V55V in SP

2014-12-29 Thread Guy Olinger K2AV
I worked Rick at 03:21 from NC. He called me while I was running. His signal was much louder than many eastern US stations. What is interesting is that here the big 3/8 wave L over FCP is mostly on the ground from late summer derecho winds and not repaired for medical reasons. The collection of di

Topband: OT Phasing SSB

2014-12-29 Thread wb6rse1
Back in the day, did you use a 9 Mc audio phasing SSB exciter and a 5 Mc VFO to operate on 75m? Do you still have that working gear? If so, please reply off list. Thanks & HNY - Steve WB6RSE _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband

Re: Topband: Speculating via Stew posted scores

2014-12-29 Thread Joel Harrison
I have always admired WD5R's VERY quite rural QTH, which also helps tremendously! :-)) 73 Joel W5ZN > On Mon,12/29/2014 5:18 AM, James Rodenkirch wrote: >> Forgot to state that both stations I used as examples were QRP entries, >> Tim k5go is in AR and n9tf is in IL and I chose them 'cuz th

Topband: spotlight propagation

2014-12-29 Thread Larry via Topband
hello milt, yes, i am very aware of "spotlight propagation". it is to this end that i have been working closely with Dr. Herman Wolfgang Amadeus Funkelmunster (Dr. Funk for short) of the University of Arizona. he is the chair of applied radio sciences and child psychology. his new invention,

Re: Topband: Speculating via Stew posted scores

2014-12-29 Thread Jim Brown
On Mon,12/29/2014 5:18 AM, James Rodenkirch wrote: Forgot to state that both stations I used as examples were QRP entries, Tim k5go is in AR and n9tf is in IL and I chose them 'cuz they are reasonably close to each other, "mid-west sorta thang." RX antennas matter. Stations like NO3M, WD5

Re: Topband: V55V in SP

2014-12-29 Thread Milt -- N5IA
That is Top Band 'spotlight' propagation for you. It is quite common; more than most of us realize. I never heard V55V here in SE AZ during the contest, although I was 80-90% running. The Gulf Coast T-Storm activity was directly east of me (direct path to V5) so I hardly selected that azimut

Re: Topband: 160m L and 80m Vertical

2014-12-29 Thread Ian Fugler
Trevor What you describe is very similar to the set up that I have here. I have a 65' mast with a 10' horizontal fibreglass pole just below the top. My 66' 80m quarterwave runs up to one end of the fibreglass pole and the 160m inverted L to the other side. So the two aerials are 10' apart in th

Re: Topband: Speculating via Stew posted scores

2014-12-29 Thread James Rodenkirch
Forgot to state that both stations I used as examples were QRP entries, Tim k5go is in AR and n9tf is in IL and I chose them 'cuz they are reasonably close to each other, "mid-west sorta thang." I guessif we all chimed in with our ideas of why the numbers are different, we'd have a sh

Re: Topband: Speculating via Stew posted scores

2014-12-29 Thread Tim Shoppa
Oops, braino correction on the last sentence. I temporarily forgot that there were bands and contests other than 160M :-). Last sentence should read "ARRL 160 low power category". On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote: > There are many different factors at play way beyond the antenna

Re: Topband: Speculating via Stew posted scores

2014-12-29 Thread Tim Shoppa
There are many different factors at play way beyond the antenna system. First and foremost, K5GO is QRP so he gets an automatic 3x multiplier for all his QSO's. I don't know N9FT's category. Beyond power category, a station in a densely populated area will get an awful lot of 1-pointers and 2-poin

Topband: Speculating via Stew posted scores

2014-12-29 Thread James Rodenkirch
Is there a way via Stew results to measure the concentration of Qs... with relation to the distance of the Q? For example, looking over the scores posed at the 3830 web site one finds N9FT's QSOs to point ratio is 3 pts. while K5GO has a ratio of 8.1. On the surface, one would draw the conclu