On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist <
rich...@karlquist.com> wrote:
> Remember the seasons are reversed in the Southern Hemisphere. We
> are already having a tough time getting participation from "down
> under". Maybe a more inclusive naming convention would make
> sense.
Bill,
You need to shunt feed that 90 foot tower! You can decide whether you want to
install an extensive radial field or whether to easily put up a few elevated
radials.
This is an easy project and will kill the performance of a 43 foot vertical for
almost no cost.
What tower is it? Are
Anyone have actual experience with any of the commercially
available 160 antennas...such as:
http://www.dxengineering.com/parts/dxe-160va-1?seid=dxese1=Cj0KEQiAno60BRDt89rAh7qt-4wBEiQASes2tUOULTlQpNyMARBk4ZWRxw70jODW_FJCuBJ1Td47YMgaAhgQ8P8HAQ
Dennis,
Appreciate the upload! Both 160 and 80 were new band entities for me.
Thanks and 73,
Bill - NA5DX
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 14:25:41 -0500
From: Dennis
To: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Topband: CX/W1UE QSOs
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* Understand that even for the top set of guys they are not
insulated till 17' from the tower. Insulating the others will not be all
that easy for this once very agile 72 yo who put the tower up all by
myself 7 years ago. Maybe change to Phillystran? I will also need more
specific
Has anyone tried a v-beam configuration on the ground, similar to a bog?
Obviously, it would be longer. The intent would be to increase RDF.
Or would that be a waste of time?
Art NK8X
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We have received enough logs now that the preliminary results can be
posted. You can check out to see how many QRP and LP stations you are
getting bonus points for and see how your checked score stacks up against
the competition.
http://www.kkn.net/stew
If you haven't sent in your log yet (this
Spring Stew Perry. That's neat.
Should really just be called the Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter Stew
Perry. None of them a "test" version. All of them one gets in there and
does it as a regular contest, with to-date stats leading up to the winter
as the final entry in an ANNUAL score. Each
Bill,
You are going to like what you end up with even on some of the other
bands. I would think that three 17 foot long guy wires attached to the
tower would have a bad influence on the tribander. In fact that's a very
bad length attached to the tower and under a 20m antenna.
You are not going
Bill,
When I loaded my 100 ft. stick of 25G, I had broken up the guys with
insulators. To see what effect connecting the top guys to the tower would
have, I jumpered the first insulators on all three top guys. Looking at
the feed point impedance at the bottom of the "gamma" rod, I found that
Somebody's got to be the curmudgeon here -- guess I'll volunteer. Not everyone
on Topband is excited to see this.
Let me see if I've got this right. First there was the Stew, then the pre-Stew
(a contest to get ready for a contest), next a Summer Stew. Now there's going
to be a Spring Stew?
I tend to agree Larry - even more Stew is not necessarily a good thing.
Steve
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Good Evening
I completely repositioned the EWE today, it's about 70 feet from it's
original position and is not pointing at the INV-L.It's pointing
towards southern EU.
I Verified the feedline was OK, verified the transformer was OK etc.
Same results. When listening to an EU station on
> Fortunately participation is not mandatory for those who have had enough.
Ah, but that's exactly my point. Those with a limited or no interest in this
event DO have to "participate" in it by virtue of the additional weekend of
chaos that it causes.
- Larry K5RK
-Original Message-
I'm a new top band user. I need all the opportunities I can get, but I
do understand the issue.
As for me I am not going to "stew" over it. :-)
73,
Bob
K6UJ
On 12/30/15 3:31 PM, Jeff AC0C wrote:
Fortunately participation is not mandatory for those who have had
enough. Given the winter
A few hundred Watts might do it. Short antenna, low feed point impedance,
inefficient tuner settings, and suddenly the tuner is dissipating a lot of the
RF that was meant to pass through. :(
'JK
On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 2:25 PM, Pat N8VW
wrote:
On
I was hoping for a weekly Stew.
Think about that and maybe you'll feel better about a seasoned stew.
73,
Bill KU8H
On 12/30/2015 06:05 PM, Steve wrote:
I tend to agree Larry - even more Stew is not necessarily a good thing.
Steve
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On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Bill Cromwell wrote:
> I was hoping for a weekly Stew.
>
> Think about that and maybe you'll feel better about a seasoned stew.
>
> 73,
>
> Bill KU8H
>
>
>
>
> On 12/30/2015 06:05 PM, Steve wrote:
>
>> I tend to agree Larry - even
Beware the Ides of March!
Jeff W6JK
On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 2:12 PM, Mike Waters
wrote:
"Spring Stew – March 14/15 – You saw it here first!!"
GREAT! :-)
73, Mike
www.w0btu.com
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Tree wrote:
>
On 2015-12-30 12:56, K4OWR wrote:
Tuners on 160, with a LOT of power, always eventually blow up or catch
fire.
Interesting comment. What do you mean when you capitalize the word
"lot"?
..n8vw
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Has anyone tried a v-beam configuration on the ground, similar to a bog?
Obviously, it would be longer. The intent would be to increase RDF.
Or would that be a waste of time?
Waste of time to increase directivity. Long wires laid on or near the
ground fire straight down the length of a
"Spring Stew – March 14/15 – You saw it here first!!"
GREAT! :-)
73, Mike
www.w0btu.com
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Tree wrote:
> http://www.kkn.net/stew ... Note that the dates for the 2016 events have
> been decided and posted. There might even be a surprise for those of
My Ten Tec 238B L-Network tuner works well at 1500W. Some tuner networks,
especially T-networks, can have very high currents through the shunt inductor.
Bill, W6QR
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My Ten Tec 238B L-Network tuner works well at 1500W. Some tuner networks,
especially T-networks, can have very high currents through the shunt
inductor.
The largest issue with T tuners is capacitor value. Most tuners use generic
230-270 pF maximum capacitance caps, and that makes the
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