Topband: test please ignore

2018-08-03 Thread Lee STRAHAN
Test email please ignore. Thanks, Lee K7TJR OR _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband

Topband: TX5T will be QRV on the Low Bands from the Australs !

2018-08-03 Thread Bob Allphin
Low Band enthusiasts. The 5 man team going to TX5T, Raivavae Island in the Austral group are pleased to announce that they will be QRV on all bands 160m thru 10m. (no permit for 60M). We should arrive August 13th and depart the 22nd. The decision has been made to use 18m Spider

Re: Topband: ZL and W6KIP?? back in the 60's?

2018-08-03 Thread Tree
Thanks to all for the correction of VE7BS's callsign. ZL2BT was also my first ZL on the band - worked when I was still in W6 I believe. I am not sure who Alex would have been on the W6 side. The first person I was aware of working DX from California was W6NJU - who later became KI6T. Gary

Re: Topband: ZL and W6KIP?? back in the 60's?

2018-08-03 Thread m.r.c.
Hi Ron do not remember the ZL callsign, or even the W6 call for sure, but it was 1960-1961 ZL3BT does not ring a bell, but that was a LONG time ago I am almost sure it was Alex and a call W6KIP or close to it. Of course, that call has been reissued at least twice, maybe more. I remember

Re: Topband: ZL and W6KIP?? back in the 60's?

2018-08-03 Thread Bob Garrett
Greetings, Yes, Bob Tanner ZL2BT, my first ZL on Topband. 73, Bob K3UL _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband

Topband: ZL and W6KIP?? back in the 60's?

2018-08-03 Thread vk3io
Robin,that may have been ZL2BT (also SK) and also whose name was also BOB (what is it about these guy's called BOB and DX on Top Band, i.e. N7UA and many others), he was very big on 160 ssb in the early 1980's when I got interested in DX'ing. Cheers, from Ron. On 03-Aug-18 11:16 AM, m.r.c.

Re: Topband: WD8DSB & LU5OM 160 meter year long test complete

2018-08-03 Thread vk3io
Tree, that was VE7BS, BOB (now SK) and VK3ZL, BOB (now also SK), with almost all qso's using SSB. We, ve7bs, vk3zl (previously vk3bvs), including myself vk3io (previously vk3bee) and other vk's, had many great ssb qso's on Top Band between 1983 and 2010, back in the "good old day's" of 160m